Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.

¶ Calepinus the 5. after Ottomannus.

CAlepinus,* 1.1 or Celebinus was the sonne of Baiazetes, and of foure brethren, the eldest: who beyng all taken captiues of the Parthians, he onely escaped and obteined his fathers kyngdome. This Calepinus encouraged by the sloth and negligence of the Princes of Europe, and by the discord of the Grecians amongest them selues and o∣ther nations neare about them, long troubled and vexed the Bulgarians, Seruiās, and Macedonians, euen to the tyme of Sigismundus. Which Sigismundus seyng now Baiazetes to be ouercome and taken of Tamerlane, and the power of the Turkes weakened in Europe, & hauing such occasion offered him, as it were from heauen, to de∣stroy and vtterly to roote out, not onely out of Asia but al∣so all Europe, that barbarous nation, and cruell enemies to the name and Religiō of Christ: and also to reuenge the great slaughter and discomfiture of his army fighting be∣fore with Baiazetes at Nicopolis a Citie in Mysia: with great power made warre agaynst Calepinus at Colum∣batium a Towne in Seruia,* 1.2 as is also before mentioned. pag. 719. but as vnluckely and with as little successe as he did before agaynst Baiazetes his father: For in that bat∣taile were slayne of the Christiās to the nūber of xx. thou∣sand, and the rest vtterly discomfited, the kyng himselfe es∣caping so hardly, that he entred not agayne into his king∣dome for the space of 18. monethes after. Some write that this was done vnder Baiazetes, other some referre this battaile to Amurathes, but howsoeuer it was, most per∣nicious was it to the Christiās. He raigned but vi. yeares and dyed very young. an. 1404.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Calepinus the fift, after Otto∣mannus.
• * 1.2

  Vide supra. pag. 7••9. The ouerthrow of Sigismund, fighting agaynst the Turke. Some stories re∣cord this cōflict to be after the time of thys Turke.