A monument of remembrance erected in Albion, in honor of the magnificent departure from Britannie, and honorable receiuing in Germany, namely at Heidelberge, of the two most noble princes Fredericke, first prince of the imperiall bloud, sprung from glorious Charlemaigne, Count Palatine of Rhine, Duke of Bauier, Elector and Arch-sewer of the holy Romane Empire, and Knight of the renowned order of the Garter. & Elizabeth Infanta of Albion, Princess Palatine, and Dutchesse of Bauier, the onely daughter of our most gratious and soueraigne Lord Charles-Iames, and of his most noble and vertuous wife, Queene Anne. Both of them being almost in one and the same degree lineall descent from 25 emperours of the east and west, of Romanes, Greekes, and Germans, and from 30 kings of diuers countries. By Iames Maxvvel.

THE SVMME OF DIVERS Pedigrees common to the two most Noble Princes FREDERICKE and ELIZABETH, Collected by the Authour, in Honour of their Highnesses.

IT is the common consent, and constant opinion, of Hystorians, and Genelogians, that the Palatine Princes are lineally descended from glorious Char∣lemaigne, once the most Augustious Emperour of Romans & Germanes, & King of France, most Christian, and it was chiefly in consideration hereof, that they were preferred before many other Princes, & Potentates of great power in Germany, in the election of the Emperour, & namely before the Duke of Saxe, a Prince of great puissance, authority and command; notwithstanding that both Otho the 3. Emperor, & Pope Gregory the 5. which did ordaine the sanction of the seuen Electors (according as Blondus, Polydorus, Bergomensis, Nauclerus, Crantzius, Balaeus, and Egnatius do deliuer) were both of them Princes of the house of Saxe, for the said Em∣perour Otho, belike considering with himselfe, how that hee had done a greater wrong to Charlemaigne in bereauing his race of the Golden Crowne of the Empire, by the meanes of his foresaid Electionary sanction or decree, thē he had done, when as he opened his Sepulcher, and bereft his Corps of the Golden Crosse did hang about his neck (as Ditmarus, who li∣ued in those daies, doth write) for the which it is said that he was in his sleepe visited & affrighted with a reuengefull visi∣on of the said Charlemaigne, menacing him with death, which shortly after did ensue: Otho, I say, considering the wrong afore-said, done to Charlemaigne and his Race, endeauored by al meanes to yeeld them some competent satisfaction, and

therefore preferred the Count Palatine of the Rhine, being of the Imperiall bloud, and Male Race of Charlemaigne, be∣fore the Duke of Saxe, and the rest of the Princes of the Empire, in the fore-said Election. Besides, that the first Em∣perour, which was elected by the seuen Electors, which was Henry the second, Duke of Bauier, being likewise a Prince of the Saxon bloud, and afterwards enstiled Saint Henry, for his singular Piety & Chastity, as Vrspergensis, Frisingensis, Eg∣natius, Cuspinianus, & others do witnesse, he to make yet some further satisfaction to Charlemaignes Race, did both marry the daughter of Siffrid, Prince Palatine, named Cunegunde, and did like-wise restore vnto his brother-in-law Henry the first of this name, Prince Palatine, the Dukedome of Banier, as we learne out of Ditmarus & others. And it was, no doubt, in re∣gard of their fore-said descent from Charlemaigne, that a cer∣taine super-Imperiall priuiledge was cōferred vnto the Pala∣tine Prince, which is, as the goldē Bul of the Emperor Charls the 4. doth beare, that he may, in some case, cite and summon the Emperor to appeare and answere before him Iudicially.

And because that in honor of the two most Noble Princes, lately maried, Frederick & Elizabeth, we haue drawne diuers Pedigrees & descents, both from glorious Charlemaigne, and frō many other Emperors, & Kings of diuers countries, cō∣mon to them both, especially seuen; therfore mee thought it good, to exhibite vnto the readers a sūmary view of the same, reseruing the more speciall handling thereof to another la∣bour and worke in Latine. In the first foure of the said seuen Pedigrees, cōmon to both the said Princes, our most gratious Soueraigne King Iames, & his most Noble son-in-law Prince Fredericke are in one & the selfe same degree of descent from the 20 Emperors, and 24. Kings therein mentioned. In the fifth Pedigree, our most gratious Queene Anne, and the said Prince, are likewise in one and the same degree of Descent, From the 4. Emperours and 3. Kings therein named: And in th sixth and seuenth, Prince Fredericke, and Princesse Eliza∣beth do happely and iointly fall into one and the same degree of descent from the Emperour and 8. Kings contained there∣in: Likewise Prince Charles, and Prince Fredericke, two bro∣thers-in-law,

are colineally descended from two-borne-bro∣thers, to wit, from Henry prince Palatine, and Duke of Saxe the elder of the two, from whom Prince Fredericke is in the 15. degree; and from Otho Earle of Yorke and Emperour, the yonger brother, from whom P. Charles Duke of Yorke being likewise the yonger, of the said two brothers-in-law, is des∣cended, both on his fathers and his mothers side, in the 13. and 14. degree; though, as I noted other-where, some do hold that he had no children by any of his wiues.

The first of the fore-said seuen common pedigrees con∣taineth fifteene Emperours of Romans, Greekes, and Germans, with eight Kings of diuers Countries, as namely, Germanie, Bauier, (for anciently it was a Kingdome) Hungary, Boheme, Sicile, and England, whereof two Kings are therein specified: to wit, Edward the elder, and Henry 2. from whom P. Frede∣ricke is descended by both his daughters; to wit, Maude the elder, married to Henry the Lyon, Duke of Saxe and Bauier, and Leonora the yonger, married to Alphonse the 8. King of Castile, Whereby we may see that like as P. Fredericke is des∣cended from the Kings of England, so is King Iames likewise descended from diuers of the Germane Emperours, especial∣ly by the meanes of his most Noble mother, and the most Illustrious house of Loraine, whence it doth follow, that hee is capable of the Imperiall dignity, as being of the bloud of Germanie, and of the Empire.

The second common Pedigree, containeth fiue Empe∣rours of Constantinople, together with seuen Kings of France, Hungary, Aragon, Valence, and Sicile.

The third common Pedigree containeth seuen Kings of England, Scotland, Ierusalem, Castile, France, Naples, and Si∣cile; of which number, are Edmond Ironside, and Henry the first Kings of England, (besides King Henry the 2. mentioned in the first Pedigree) together with Malcolme Cammore King of Scotland.

The fourth common Pedigree is from S. Lod••wicke, or Lewis the incomparable King of France, from whom King Iames, and Prince Fredericke on their most Noble mothers side, Mary, and Lucy-Iuliane, are lineally descended in one

and the same degree with King Lodowick the 13. of this name, being all three in the 12 degree.

The fifth pedigree containeth foure Emperors, and three Kings of Boheme, and Poland.

The sixth pedigree containeth seuen Kings of Arragon, Ʋalence, France, Nauarre, England, Castile, and Leon, of which number are Edward the 2. and Edward the 3. Kings of Eng∣land, and Iohn of Gant his sonne, Knight of the renowned Order of the Garter, Earle of Richmond, Darby, Leicester, and Lincolne, Palatine of Chester, Great Constable of France, and High Steward of England, Duke of Aquitane and Lancaster, and King of Castile and Leon; from whom prince Fredericke, and princesse Elizabeth are lineally descended, the one by his sonne. Iohn Earle of Sommerset, Marquis Dorset, the other by his daughter Philippa married to Iohn King of Portugale, & both in the tenth degree, which is the eleuenth from King Edward the 3. as the pedigree I haue lately pub∣lished doth shew.

The seuenth and last Pedigree common to both the said Princes, is from Lodowicke the 5. Duke of Bauier and Empe∣rour, and his wife Margaret the Empresse, and Countesse of Holland; together with King Iohn of France, from the which Emperour and Empresse they are both in the 12 degree. So that the number of the Emperours contained in the said se∣uen pedigrees. common to both, falleth out to be twenty & fiue; and the number of the Kings of diuers countries therin specified, is thirty, and aboue; and euen so many Kings be∣sides 12. Emperours, haue we found in the Princely descent of the Illustrious house of Howards, as wee shall (God wil∣ling) shew in another worke.

One thing there is, which the special affection I do beare to the honour of the name of Iames, will not suffer me to smo∣ther vp, and that is; That our most gracious Souerainge King Iames, the first of this name in Britanny, and likewise the first Christian vniter of the two kingdomes therof, and the son & heire of a Matchlesse Q. Mary, together with his Noble son-in-law, P. Fredericke are both of them in the 13. degree of lineall descent from Iames the first of this name, surnamed

the Fortunate, son and heire of a worthy Queene Mary, and the vniting King of Aragon and Valence, of whom six famous Spanish Chroniclers, Rodericus Toletanus, Rodericus Sanctius, Alphonsus à Carthagena, Franciscus Tarapha, Lucius Mari∣nius, and Damianus à Goes make most honourable mention. And from the same vniting King of Aragon, Iames the Fortu∣nate, who was likewise the Author of two seuerall Orders of Knighthood (as Polydorus, Zuingerus, and others do write) Prince Fredericke, and Princesse Elizabeth, are yet another way lineally descended, and that both in one & the same de∣gree, of the number of fifteene. It is likewise worthy of ob∣seruation, that whereas there haue beene but only two Em∣perours of the Palatine Family he•…•… •…•…e; the one a yon∣ger brother, and Duke of Baui•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Lodowicke the 5. the other an elder brother 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••ount Palatine, which was Robert, surnamed t•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••hat the two Princes lately mar∣ried, are descended equally from them both, with their Em∣presses, Margaret and Elizabeth; from the first two, both in the 12 degree; and from the other two, He in the 9. & She in the 10 degree. And my hearty wish is, that these two names aforesaid, Margaret and Elizabeth may proue as lucky Impe∣rially, for Frederickes and Elizabeths Imperiall preferment in Germany, as the same names haue heretofore done royally for King Iames their fathers royall preferment in Britanny.

It is also worth the noting, that as there haue beene as yet but only two Emperours of the Palatine family, so haue they had a very different fortune in their acceptance towards the Pope; for Lodowicke the 5. Duke of Bauier, and Emperour, as is said before, from whom Prince Fredericke is the 12, was highly hated of Benedict the 12, and before him, yet more, of Iohn the 22 (whose name is so numerous, that he might haue well said with the vncleane spirit in the Gospell, my name is Legion) and yet after him of a third pope, Clement the 6. The which three popes (most like the three Furies) did no other thing else, from day to day, but heape hellish sentence vpon sentence of excōmunication & depriuation against the good Emperour; who not withstanding all their Infernall fulmina∣tions, and Cerbereall oblatrations, receiued more honour in

Rome, at the hands of both Clergy & Laity there, then they all three did in Auinion; and in spite of the Diuell, liued lon∣ger in the Empire, then they all three did in the Papacy. But who list to learne more of the quarrels and contentions be∣tweene the good Emperour Lodowike, and the foresaid three euill popes of Auinion, let them read the histories of Blondus, Sabellicus, Merula, Cuspinianus, and Thomas Walsingham, who likewise do tell, how that Edward the third, King of England, who went ouer into Germany to salute the said Emperour, & to treat of an alliance with him against France, was met of the said Emperour at Colein, and admitted to be his Vicar ge∣nerall in the Empire. And the same Lodowickes father, named Lodowicke the Seuere, Prince Palatine, together with his bro∣ther Henry, Duke of Bauier, had likewise chosen Richard, Earle of Cornwall, son of King Iohn, to be Emperour; like as Robert the first of this name, Prince Palatine, (for this Title is in Aurea Bulla as well as that of Count Palatine) did choose the foresaid King Edward the third, to be Emperour after the death of Lodowicke the 5. though hee (too modestly indeed) refused the said dignity. By which particulars wee may espy how that the Palatine Princes haue been in former times very officious to the Kings of England, and their children; hoping that they shall hereafter proue yet more officious & forward in the same kind, then euer they haue done before, to the end that old prophesies may take effect, which doe promise, that the Imperiall dignity shall for many yeares continue in Bri∣tanny, as our Sibylla Britannica shall largely shew.

The other Emperour of the Palatine house, was Robert, sur∣named the Noble, who reigned in great honor, 9 yeares and 9 moneths, from whom prince Fredericke is the 9.) as the pedi∣gree lately published doth shew) and who was so highly be∣loued of pope Boniface the 9. that hee not onely furthered and confirmed his election, but also granted him, towards a subsidy, one yeares tythes of the Clergy, through all Germa∣ny, as Cuspinianus and others do write. So that this good Pope in doing this good office, and in vsing so well the worthy Emperour, did answere to his name, and was a Boniface in∣deed, farre otherwise then did Benedictus the 12. and Clement

the 6 in the behalfe of the other Palatine Emperour named before. And for mine owne part, I wish with all my heart that many such Bishops may sit in the Apostolicall Chaire, as may both in their own persons giue vnto God the things that are Gods, & vnto Cae∣sar the things that are Caesars; and with blessed S. Peter, teach all Christians to feare God, & honor the King. The foresaid Robert the good Emperour, & who was so highly beloued of the good pope Boniface the 9. was a prince renowned for his great spirit, quicke wit, heroicall courage, for his loue and study of Iustice, (for the which cause he was surnamed Robertus Iustimanus) & for his care∣full endeuouring to repaire the ancient glory of the Empire. Hee came into England with a goodly company (as Fabian & Cooper do write) in the yeare 1403. to see the magnificence of the Court, and the commodities of the Countrey, who of King Henry the 4. was honorably & triumphantly receiued & feasted; and during his abode lodged at S. Iohns by Smithfield: & lastly conueyed towards the seaside, where either departed frō other with exchange of rich & pretious gifts: for this Robert (saith our said English Author) was a prince of great bounty, liberality, and magnificence, and shewed diuers effects thereof towards the English at his departure. He was likewise the first Emperor that euer ware S. Georges renowned or∣der, commonly called, The Order of the Garter, as Maximilian the 2. another glorious Emperour was the eighth. He was likewise the first of the three Palatines, which haue ben honored with the fore∣said noble Order; Iohn Casimire being the second, who receiued it at the hands of famous Queene Elizabeth, about the same time of the yeare, & day of the moneth, (to wit, the 8. of February) that P. Fredericke being the third, receiued it at the hands of our gracious K. Iames. The said Emperor Roberts wife was named Elizabeth the Empresse, & princesse Palatine, and was a Lady of singular vertue, piety, bounty, chastity & charity towards the poore; who brought forth to her worthy husband many fine children, to wit, fiue sons, by the meanes of the yongest whereof, P. Fredericke is descended from the said Emperor & Empres in the 9. degree; & three daugh∣ters, by the meanes of the eldest wherof, named Margaret, princesse Elizabeth is likewise descended from them in the 10 degree; the which numbers in thē vnited, make vp K. Iames his luckly number of Nineteene. Thus wee see; that like as our most gracious King

Iames, with his hopefull children, prince Charles, & princesse Eliza∣beth are lineally descended from two Margarets, and one Elizabeth of Britany, being the renowned daughters of prince Edward, surna∣med the Outlaw: K. Edward the 4. and K. Henry the 7. in whose trip∣led right (the two Margarets being married to two kings of Scot∣land, Malcolme Cammore, and Iames the 4.) he doth at this day hap∣pily and rightfully enioy this Crowne. So are they likewise descen∣ded lineally from other two Margarets & an Elizabeth of Germany, to wit, frō Margaret Countesse of Holland, Dutchesse of Bauier, & Empresse, wife to Lodowicke the Emperour, from Elizabeth Dut∣chesse of Bauier, princesse Palatine, and Empresse, wife to Robert the Emperour: and sustly, from Margaret, Dutchesse of Loraine, the el∣dest daughter of the said Robert the Emperour, and Elizabeth the Empresse, and who was married to the most noble and valorous prince Charles, surnamed Marcelle, or the warlike Duke of Loraine, from whom I haue deriued our hopefull P. Charles his pedigree; and that as well on his noble mothers as on his happy fathers side, and yet more from Emperours, Kings and Princes of the name of Charles, to the number of 9. besides those of other names, as also I haue done from P. Albert, Marquise of Brandeburge, who for his incomparable courage was called the Achilles of Germany; wishing with all my heart, that like as prince Charles was borne on his day, & doth participate of his bloud, so he may likewise inherit his he∣roical prowesse, and so one day be enstiled the Achilles of Britanny: the which our hearty wish is more fully expressed in an Astrolo∣gicall and Historicall poem made vpon his Natiuity. And thus for the present are we contented to shut vp this Genealogicall summe with this six-line-Epigram, in honour of Fredericke and Elizabeth, whom the God of heauen prosper and preserue.

Both from Augustus and Augusta spring Lodwicke-Margret, Robert-Elizabeth, Both in one month Ioue to the light did bring. Augustus nam'd, which this good presage hath: AVGVSTVS fate one day must them befall, And him AVGVSTVS, her AVGVSTA call.

FINIS.