A catalogue and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts of this realme of England, since the Norman Conquest, to this present yeare, 1619 Together, vvith their armes, vviues, and children: the times of their deaths and burials, with many their memorable actions. Collected by Raphe Brooke Esquire, Yorke Herauld: discouering, and reforming many errors committed, by men of other profession, and lately published in print ...

A CATALOGVE OF THE Kings of England, since the Norman Conquest, their Armes, Wiues, and Children.

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WIlliam, sur-named the Conqueror (cousin vnto King Edward the Confessor, in the third and fourth degree) base sonne of Robert the sixt Duke of Normandy, be∣gotten of Arlet his Concubine, daughter of a Skinner and Burgesse of the Citty of Faloys; who hauing ouerthrowne and slaine King He∣rauld in battell, was vpon Christmas day, in the yeare of Christ, 1066. crowned King of England, (not by Stigand Archbishop of Can∣terbury, because he was a very proud and leud liuer) but by Aldred Archbishop of Yorke; at which time, the saide William caused both the Bishops and Noblemen of the Realme, to sweare fealty to him before S. Peters Altarat Westminster. He married Mauld, daughter of Baldwyn the fift Earle of Flanders (sur-named the Gentle) who dyed the second day of No∣uember, 1083. and was buried at Cane in Normandy, in S. Maries Church: and William Conqueror her husband dyed at Roan, on Thursday, the 8. of the Ides of September, 1087. the 51. of his Dukedome of Normandy, the 21. of his King∣dome of England, and of his age the 74. and was buried at Cane in S. Stephens Church, which he before had built. He had issue, 4. sonnes, and 6. daughters.

For the authority of the Armes of the Kings of England, from William Con∣querors time, to king Richard the first, I finde none of any great credite, but what hath beene vsed by traditions, that will I set downe as I finde them.

William Conqueror (as it is saide) vsed the Armes of Rollo the Dane, and first Duke of Normandy, which he bare as belonging to the Dukedome of Norman∣dy: Gueulles, deux Lyons passant gardant, d'or.

His Issue.

Robert, sur-named Curtuoise, (which is, Short Bootes) being Duke of Nor∣mandy, was taken prisoner at Tenarchbray in Normandy, in the yeare 1106. and by commandement of William his brother, he had both his eyes put out, and dyed in the Castle of Cairdiffe, in the yeare 1134. when he had beene prisoner there, 28. yeares, and was buried at Glocester. He married Sibill, sister of William Earle of Conuersana in Italy, by whom he had issue, William and Henry.

Richard, second sonne of William Conqueror, was slaine in the New Forrest by a Stag, and was buried at Winchester.

William the third sonne, sur-named Ruphus, of his red haire, serued vnder his Father, at the battaile of Gerberoth in Normandy, where hee was wounded. After being King, and hunting in the New Forrest the second of August, Wal∣ter Tirrell a French Knight, shot him with an Arrow, whereof he presently dy∣ed, in the yeare 1100. hauing reigned twelue yeares and eleuen moneths, being 43. yeares olde.

Henry the fourth sonne, was borne at Selby in Yorkshire, 1070. and sur-named Beauclarke (or sine Scholler) was by his Father knighted at Westminster, in the yeare 1086.

Cicely eldest daughter, borne in Normandy, was Abbesse at Cane, where shee dyed without issue.

Constance the second daughter, married to Alan Earle of Britaine, sur-named Fergant, dyed without issue, and was buried at S. Edmondsbury in Suffolke. This is that Constance, which the honest man Dolman, alias Parsons, setteth downe to haue issue, Conan le Grosse the second Duke of Britaine, and Conan le Grosse to haue issue Hoell, disinherited by his Father; and Bertha, married to Eudo Earle of Porret.

Alice the third daughter, was married to Stephen, Earle of Bloys in France, and had issue, King Stephen and others; and after professed her selfe a Nun, at Marciquy in France, and was there buried.

Ela, in her childhood was promised in marriage, to King Herauld of Eng∣land, but hee refused her, and married another, by reason whereof, she died vn∣married without issue.

Gundred the fift daughter, married William de Warren, a Nobleman of Nor∣mandy, whom William Conqueror made Earle of Surrey, by whom she had issue, William the second Earle Warren and Surrey, and dyed in childebed, at Castle-Acre in Norfolke, and was buried at Lewis in Sussex, 1085.

Margaret the sixt daughter, promised to Alphonsus King of Gallicia in Spain, and dyed without issue.

William Peuerell, base sonne of William Conqueror, was Lord of Nottingham, and had issue, William a sonne.

King William Rufus.

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WIlliam Rouse or Rufus, sur-named of his red haire, the third sonne of William Conqueror. This Wil∣liam serued vnder his Father at the battaile of Gerberoth in Nor∣mandy, where he was wounded: He began his Reigne of King of England, the ninth day of September, in the yeare of our Lord, 1087. & was crowned at Westminster, by Lanfranke Archbishoppe of Canterbury, the first day of October. He was of person a square man, red coloured, his haire somewhat yellow, his eyes not one like another; he was of meane stature, somewhat big bellied, hee was very variable, inconstant, couetous and cruell; he ouer-bur∣dened his Subiects with vnreasonable taxes, pilled the rich, and oppressed the poore. And being a hunting in the New Forrest, the second day of August, in the yeare 1100. Sir Walter Tirrell, a French Knight, shooting at a Deere, vnawares smote him in the breast, that he fell downe starke dead, and neuer spake word. His body being conuay∣ed to Winchester, was there buried in the 43. yeare of his age, hauing reigned al∣most thirteene yeares, leauing no issue to succeed him.

Les armes de son peré.

King Henry the first.

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HEnry, the fourth and youngest sonne of William Conquerour, was borne at Selby in Yorkshire, 1070. and for his learning was cald Beauelark; he was brought vp in the study of the liberall Arts at Cam∣bridge, vnder Henry Newborough Earle of War∣wicke. He began his Reigne the second of Au∣gust, and was crowned at Westminster, by Maurice Bishop of London, (Anselme Bishop of Canterbury beeing then in exile) the fift of August, 1100. He was strong and mighty of body, high of stature, amiable of countenance, blacke haired, faire eyes, broad breasted, well in flesh, full of merry conceits, excellent in wit, eloquent in speech, and fortunate in bat∣taile; and for these, he had three notable vi∣ces, couetousnesse, cruelty and letchery. Hee maried two wiues, the first was Mauld, daugh∣ter of Malcolme Canmoir, King of Scotland, (otherwise Malcolme with the great head) she was married to him at London, in the yeare 1100. and liued with him 17. yeares, and dyed in May, in the yeare 1118. & was buried at S. Peters church at Westminster, leauing issue one sonne and a daughter; she built a house for lea∣pers neere London, called S. Gyles in the field.

His second wife was Adelicia, daughter of Godfrey, first Duke of Louaine, and sister of another Godfrey, and Iocelyn of Louaine: She was married the 29. of Ia∣nuary, 1121. and continued his wife fifteene yeares, but had no issue by him. She was after married to William de Albeney Earle of Arundell, by whom she had issue, William the second Earle of Arundell, Godfrey, and Ioane married to Iohn Earle of Angi. This Henry dyed of a surfet at Dennises, in the Forrest of Li∣ons in Normandy, the first day of December, in the yeare 1135. being about 67. yeares olde, hauing reigned King 35. yeares and foure Moneths.

In this Henry, ended the line of the heyres male of the Norman Kings, ha∣uing reigned heere 69. yeares, after whom came the French, by marrying the heyre generall.

Les armoiries de son peré.

His Issue.

William, sonne of King Henry and Queene Mauld his first wife, was borne in the yeare 1102. and being 14. yeares old, the Nobility did him homage, & three

yeares after, he married Mary, the daughter of Foulk Earle of Aniou; and the same yeare was made Duke of Normandy, for which he did homage to King Lewis the Grosse of France, and after was drowned, comming out of Normandy into England, the 26. of Nouember, 1120. beeing then eighteene yeares of age, leauing no issue of his body.

Mauld, the only daughter of king Henry the first, by Mauld his first wife, was borne the fourth yeare of her Fathers Reigne, and was married to the Empe∣rour Henry the fourth, for his second wife, being but seuen yeares olde at her es∣pousing, and married and crowned at eleuen, at Mentz in Germany, in the yeare 1114. with whom she continued twelue yeares, and out-liued him, but had no issue by him. After she married Geffrey Plantagenet, Earle of Aniou, son of Foulke king of Ierusalem, in the yeare 1127 and had issue Henry, after King of England; Geffrey, Earle of Nantes in Britaine; and William, Earle of Poytou: She was his wife 23. yeares, and a widdow 17. yeares, and after dyed in Roan, 1167. and was buried at Bec Abbey in Normandy.

His Issue by Concubines.

Robert (of some Writers called the Consull of Glocester) base sonne of King Henry the first, begotten of Nest, the daughter of Rice ap Teuder, the great Prince of South Wales, who was after married to Girald de Windsore, Constable of the Castle of Penbroke. This Robert married Mabell, daughter of Robert Fitz-Ha∣mond, Lord of Glamorgan, by whom he had issue, William Earle of Glocester, and others, as in the Title of Earles of Glocester is more at large.

Reginald, base sonne of King Henry the first, begotten of the daughter of Ro∣bert Corbet, of Alencester in Warwickshire, had issue, foure daughters his heires, as in the Title of Earles of Cornwall, is more at large.

Henry, slaine in Anglesey in North-Wales, without issue.

Richard, Mary and Margaret were drowned, with their brother William, com∣ming out of Normandy into England, 1120.

Elizabeth, base daughter of King Henry the first, (begotten of Elizabeth, sister of Walleran Earle of Meulan, and Robert Bossue Earle of Leicester) was wife to Gilbert Strongbow Earle of Penbroke, and Mother to Richard Earle of Penbroke, as in the Title of Earles of Penbroke.

Iulian, Countesse of Passy.

King Stephen.

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STephen, Earle of Mortaine and Bolloigne in Picardy, third Son of Stephen, Earle of Bloys and Champaigne, begotten of Alice, the third daughter of William the Conqueror and Queene Mauld; was crow∣ned King on S. Stephens day, by William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, at Westminster 1135, by the plotting of his younger Brother Henry, who was Bishop of Winchester, and Abbot of Glostenbury, and who had drawn vnto his Fa∣ction, William Archbishop of Canterbury, the very first man that before had sworne fealty to Queene Mauld the Empresse, and to stir vp the Nobility of the Realme against the saide Mauld, protesting, that it was basenesse for so many great Peeres to be subiect vnto a womā. And further, to helpe forward this mischie∣uous plot, (another of the same brood) Roger Bishop of Salisbury, the late Kings Treasurer, protested, that the Nobility were free from the Oath they had before made to Mauld the Empresse, by reason that she had married Geffrey Plantagenet, without their priuity and consent, (as though free Princes could not marry without the consent of their Subiects) which false instigations of these wicked Bishops, made the Nobility to forswear themselues, in swearing fealty vnto King Stephen a Vsurper. And these were the fruites of these honest Churchmen, who were the cause, and losse also of many a mans life. This Stephen married Mauld, daughter of Eustace Earle of Bolloigne, Brother of Godfrey and Baldwyn kings of Ierusalem, by whom he had issue, three sonnes and two daughters: he reigned eighteene yeares, ten moneths, and odde dayes, and dyed at Douer the 25. of October, 1154. being 49 yeares olde, and was buried at Feuersham in Kent, where his Queene and Sonne were also buri∣ed. She dyed at Heningham Castle in Essex, the third of May, 1151. It is said, that King Stephen entring this Realme, the signe being in Sagittarius, and obtayning great victory by the helpe of his Archers, assumed the Sagitarius for his Arms.

Et portoit, gueulles a Sagitarius d'or.

Their Issue.

Baldwyn the eldest sonne, dyed in his infancy, and was buried at London, in the Priory of the Trinity within Aldgate, founded by Queen Mauld, wife to king Henry the first.

Eustace second sonne, was by his Father created Earle of Bolloigne, and mar∣ried

Constance, sister of Lewis the seuenth King of France, and dyed without issue the tenth of August, 1152. and was buried at Feuersham.

William the third sonne, married Isabell, daughter and heyre of William the third Earle Warren and Surrey, in whose right he was Earle Warren and Surrey, Lord of Norwich and Peuensey, Earle Mortaine, and Lord of the Egle in Nor∣mandy. He dyed in his returne from Tholouz, in the yeare, 1160.

Mauld, the eldest daughter of King Stephen, dyed young, and was buried at London, in the Priory of the Trinity within Aldgate, cald Christ-Church, now the Dukes place.

Mary, second daughter of King Stephen, was Abbesse of the Nunnery at Rumsey in Hampshire; after she forsooke her habite, and married Mathew, Bro∣ther of Philip Earle of Flanders, who (in her right) was Earle of Bolloigne, and had issue, Ida and Mauld.

King Henry the second,

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HEnry, the second of that Name, (sur-named Short-mantle, borne in France) Son of Geffrey Plantage∣net, Earle of Antou, and Mauld the Empresse, daughter of King Henry the first; began his Reigne ouer this Realme of Eng∣land, the twentieth day of October, 1154. His first comming was to Winchester, where the Nobles of the Realme came vnto him, of whō he tooke homage and fealty: then comming to London, he was crowned at Westminster by Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, the 17. of December, 1154. being then 23. yeares of age. He chose to be of his Counsell, the gra∣uest and wisest he could finde, & such as were best experienced in the Lawes of the Land. He expelled by publike Proclamation, all stran∣gers out of the Land, who had swarmed into England, in the time of variance betweene king Stephen and him: amongst whom, William of Ypers Earle of Kent, was also com∣pelled to be gone; taking into his hands all such lands and possessions as per∣tained to the Crowne, which had bene before alienated and made away to any person of what degree soeuer. From Hugh Mortimer, he took the Castles of Cle∣bery, Wigmore & Bridgnorth. He maried Elianor, daughter and sole heyre of Willi∣am Duke of Aquitaine, Earle of Poictiers and Tholouze, the fift of that name, (begotten of the daughter of Raymond, Earle of Tholouse.) This Elianors Title,

was the cheefe cause of those bloody warres betwixt England and France; yea, and the Bellowes that blew that vnnaturall discord, betwixt the Father and his Sonnes. She ouer-liued her husband, and did see three of her sonnes to be kings; and dyed the third of the Kalends of Aprill, 1204. This Henry dyed the 6. day of Iuly, 1189. in the 61. yeare of his age, when he had reigned 34. yeares, 9. moneths, and two daies, and was buried at Founteuerald, in the Dutchy of Alan∣son, neere to the Towne of the Egle.

Et portoit, gueulles au deux leopard passant d'or.

The Jssue of King Henry the second, and Queene Elianor bis VVife.

William eldest sonne, borne in the yeare, 1152, to whom the Nobility sware fealty at the Castle of Wallingford in Berkshire; he dyed in the yeare 1156, be∣ing but fiue yeares olde, and was buried at Reading, by his great Grandfather, King Henry the first.

Henry the second sonne, after the death of William his Brother, was Duke of Normandy Earle of Aniou and Mayne, and was crowned king in the life time of his Father, the 1••. of Iune, 1170. His wife was Margaret, daughter of Lewis the younger, king of France, and was married at Newburgh in Normandy, 1160. and she was after crowned Queene at Winchester, 1163. He dyed at Marcell in Tou∣raine, the eleuenth of Iune, 1182. and was buried at Roan.

Richard the third sonne, was borne at Oxford, 1157. and was sur-named of the French, Cuer-de-Lyon. He was first created earle of Poyctou, & had the whole Dutchy of Aquitaine, for which he did his homage to King Lewis the yonger, of France, 1170. After he fell at variance with his Father, and maintained wars against him: but he was afterwards reconciled into his Fathers loue againe, & succeeded him in his Kingdome.

Geffrey the fourth sonne, borne the fift yeare of his Fathers Reigne; he mar∣ried Constance, daughter and heyre of Conan Duke of Britaine, and did his ho∣mage for the same to his brother Henry, and dyed at Paris, 1186. the 19, of Au∣gust, and was buried in our Lady Church there, hauing issue, Arthur, Duke of Britaine, borne after his Fathers death; and a daughter named Elianor, which dy∣ed in prison, in King Henry the thirds time. This Constance was also married to Randoll Earle of Chester.

Philip the fift sonne, was borne in the fifteenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne, and dyed young, and was buried in S. Paules Church in London.

Iohn the sixt sonne, was borne in the yeare 1166. and sur-named Sanz-terre without Land; because when he was King, hee resigned his Crowne and King∣dome to the Pope: which Pandulphus his Legate kept (for the space of foure daies) to the Popes vse. He was created Earle of Mortaigne, and had withall the Earledomes of Cornwall, Glocester, Derby and Lancaster, the Honours of Wal∣lingford and Nottingham, and lastly was King.

Mauld the eldest daughter, was borne in the third yeare of her Fathers reign, and married Henry, sur-named the Lyon, Duke of Saxony and Sardinia; she sur∣uiued her husband, and dyed in the first yeare of King Richard the first, and was after buried by her husband in the Church of S. Blase at Brunswick, leauing issue, Othe Emperor, Henry Duke of Saxony, and William, and a daughter named Eli∣anor.

Elianor second daughter, borne at Roan, 1162. married Alfonsus the ninth of that name, King of Castile in Spaine, and had issue, Sancheus that dyed yong, as also his brother Ferdinando; Henry King of Castile; Blanch Queen of France, wife to Lewis the eight, and Mother of S. Lewis; Berengar married vnto Alphon∣sus King of Leon, Vrraca Queene of Portingall, and Elianor wife to King Iames King of Arragon.

Ioane the third daughter, borne in the Citty of Angiers in France, 1166. be∣ing but eleuen yeares olde, was conueyed to the Citty of Palermo, and there married to William the second King of Cicill, Duke of Apulia, and Prince of Ca∣pua, 1177. and was crowned Queene at the same place. She had issue, a sonne na∣med Beaumond, who was Duke of Apulia, and dyed young: She was after mar∣ried to Raymond the fourth of that Name, Earle of Tholouze, and had issue Ray∣mond, the last Earle of that House or Family; and a daughter married to Berald of Elbeine, Prince of Orange.

Issue by his Concubine.

WIlliam, sur-named Longspee (or Long-Sword) begotten of his Paramore, the Lady Rosamond, daughter of Walter Lord Clifford, married Ela, daughter and heyre of William Fitz-Patricke Earle of Salisbury, and had issue, William Longspee a Baron; Stephen second sonne; Nicholas Bishop of Salisbury; and Ri∣chard the fourth sonne, was a Cannon at Bradstocke: Idona, married to William Beauchampe Baron of Bedford; Ella, first married to the Earle of Warwicke, and after to Philip Lord Basset; and Isabell, first married to William Lord Vescy, and after to Walter Lord Clifford, Father of Roger.

King Richard the first.

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RIchard, third sonne of King Henry the second, was borne at Oxford, in the yeare 1157, who for his inuin∣cible valor, and haughty courage, was sur-named Cuer-de-Lyon, or the Lyons Heart; and did beare on his Shield or Targe, for his Armes, a Lyon rampant, which was the first Armes that euer I haue seene borne by any in England. He began his Reigne ouer England, the sixt day of Iuly, in the yeare of our Lord, 1189. being 35. yeares olde. And vp∣on the solemnizing of his Fathers Funerals, he went to the City of Roan, where, on the twen∣tieth of Iuly after, he was proclaymed Duke of Normandy. In the beginning of his reigne, Pope Innocent solicited him with many strong perswasions, and promises of his blessings, to wage warre in his owne person against the Turkes in the holy Land, and to attempt the winning of Ierusalem from the Infidels; which iourney he vndertooke, because Fredericke the Emperor, and Philip the second of France, and Leopoldus then Arch-Duke of Austria, and others had engaged themselues, to further those at∣tempts, that their generall meeting should be in Sicilia: and that such wealth & booty as God and good fortune should make them owners of, should be equal∣ly shared and diuided amongst them and theirs. King Richard to supply his wants, and to furnish himselfe with money, he solde the Castles of Barwick and Rokesbrough to the King of Scots, for ten thousand pounds; and the Lordship and Earledome of Durham, vnto Hugh the proud Bishop of that See, for a great summe of money. He also enriched himselfe by the sale of sundry Honours, Lordships, Mannors, Offices, Priuiledges, Royalties, and other things; prote∣sting, that (for the performance of so great and honourable a seruice) hee was not vnwilling to sell his Citty of London, if any were able to buy it, rather then he would be chargeable vnto others. His iourney being performed, and hee proclaymed King of Ierusalem, and had the possession thereof, and after ma∣king his returne for England; was in great danger of shipwracke, where he saued his life by swimming, neere vnto Histria, which lyeth betweene Aquileia and Venice. And comming to the Territories of Leopold in Austria, hee was by him taken prisoner & solde to the Emperour Henry the sixt, for threescore thousand Markes; which Emperour assessed him to pay for his ransome, one hundred thousand pounds; for which, security being giuen, he was set at liberty. Hee was first contracted in marriage to Alice, daughter of Lewis the seuenth king of France, but with her he neuer kept company, nor had any issue.

His second wife was Berengaria, daughter of Sanches the fourth, King of Nauarre, who married him at Ciprus, and accompanied him to the holy land. He was slaine by Bertram de Gurdonn, with the shot out of a Crossebow, at a Castle of the Viscount of Limoges, called Chalons, which wounding him in the shoulder, the Surgeons hauing drawne out the wood of the Arrow, and not the enuenomed yron forke; mangled the Arme with cruell incisions, that the paines thereof hastned his death, when he had raigned almost nine yeares. He was bu∣ried at Founteuerard in France at his Fathers feete, the 6. of Aprill, in the yeare 1199. without any lawfull issue. He had two base children, Philip a sonne, and Isabell a daughter.

King Richard the first did beare for his Armes in his Pauis or Shield, one ly∣on rampant: and this is the first Armes that euer I could see any authority for.

King Iohn.

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IOhn, the sixt and youngest sonne of King Henry the second, was borne in the yeare 1166. and by his Father was made Earle of Mo∣riton, and Lord of Ireland; and by the boun∣ty and guift of King Richard his Brother, hee was Earle of Cornwall, Lancaster & Somerset, and after his brothers death, at Roane he was created Duke of Normandy. And lastly, vpon the Ascension day, 1199. hee was crowned at Westminster, King of England. He was sur-na∣med Iohn Sanz-terre, because (when hee was King) hee resigned both Crowne and King∣dome to the Pope which Pandulphe the Le∣gate kept for the space of foure dayes to the Popes vse. The whole course of this Kings gouernment, was accompanied with continu∣all troubles; and his two Persecutors were Pope Innocent the third, and Philip the second, then King of France. He married two wiues, the first was Isabell, daughter & co-heyre of William Earle of Glocester, sonne of Earle Robert, married to him when he was Earle Moritayne, the first of King Richard the first, and after tenne yeares (hauing no issue) was the first yeare of his Reigne diuorced from him, vn∣der pretence of consanguinity, and married to Geffrey Magna-vile, Earle of Es∣sex;

and after his decease, to Hubert de Burgo, Earle of Kent, and dyed without issue.

Isabell, second wife to King Iohn, was daughter and heyre of Aymer, Earle of Angolesme, by whom he had issue, as heereafter followeth. This Isabell ouer-li∣ued King Iohn, and married Hugh de Brun, Earle of the Marches of Aquitaine, & Lord of Lusignan and Valence in Poyton, (to whom she should haue bene mar∣ried, before she married King Iohn) by whom she had diuers children, greatly aduanced by King Henry the third, their halfe brother. This King, lying in the Abbey of Swansteed, not farre from Lincolne, was poysoned by a Monke, of the Order of S. Bernard; who to make his match sure, and to auoide iealousie and suspition, first dranke vnto the King, and poysoned himselfe: the King beeing brought from the saide Abbey in a Horse-litter, vnto the Castle of Newarke, there dyed on S. Lukes night, the 14. Kalends of Nouember, and was after bu∣ried at Worcester, in the yeare 1216. when he had reigned 17. yeares, fiue mo∣neths, lacking eight dayes, at the age of 51. yeares.

This Iohn, beeing King of England and Duke of Normandy, in right of his Grand-mother Mauld the Empresse; and Duke of Aquitaine by Elianor his Mo∣ther, ioyned the Armes of Aquitaine, being a Lyon passant gardant, vnto the Armes of Normandy and England, making it Gueulles trois Lyons passant gardant d'or.

King Johns Jssue by Isabell his last Wife.

King Henry the third, borne at Winchester, the first of October, 1208. being the tenth yeare of his Fathers Reigne.

Richard, second sonne of King Iohn, was borne the next yeare after his Bro∣ther King Henry, by whom he was made Knight, and created Earle of Cornwal; and by the Electors, chosen to be Emperor of the West, and crowned King of the Romans and Almany, at the Citty of Acon in Germony; (others haue, at A∣quisgraue) He married three wiues; the first was Isabell, daughter of William Marshall the younger, Earle of Penbroke, widdow of Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Glocester, by whom he had issue, Henry slaine at Vitirbo in Italy, & Iohn, who dy∣ed both without issue. His second wife was Senchia, daughter of Raymond Earle of Prouince, and sister of Queen Elianor his brothers wife, who was crow∣ned with him at Acon, and by whom he had issue, Edmond Earle of Cornwall, & others. His third and last wife was Beatrix, Niece to the Archbishop of Co∣leyne. This Richard dyed at his Mannor of Barkhamsted, the 20. of Aprill, 1271. others say, 1272. and his body was buried in the Monastery of Hayles in Gloce∣stershire, and his heart in the Abbey of Reuly at Oxford, which was of his foun∣dation.

Ioane the eldest daughter, was married to Alexander, the second King of Scots,

who comming into England, to see her Brother King Henry the third, dyed at London, and was buried in the Nunnery at Tarent in Dorsetshire, the fourth of March, 1236.

Elianor second daughter, was first married to William Marshall the younger, Earle of Penbroke, who dyed before the wedding Feast was ended. She married after, Simon Mountfort Earle of Leicester (sonne of Simon Earle Mounfort in France) who maintaining the Barons warres, against King Henry the third, was slaine at the battaile of Euesham, 1265. After whose death, she and her Children were banished England, and dyed in the Nunnery at Montarges in France; as in the Title of Earles of Leicester is more at large.

Isabell youngest daughter, was borne in the yeare 1214. who being 21. yeares of age, married the Emperour Frederick in the Citty of Wormes in Germany, the 20. of Iuly, 1235. She being his sixt Wife, had issue by him, Henry elected King of Cicily, and Margaret, Wife of Albert Landgraue of Thurin: She dyed in child∣bed the first of December, 1241.

Base Children of King IOHN.

Richard, base sonne of King Iohn, with Hugh de Burgo Earle of Kent, ouer∣threw the Nauy of Lewis the French Kings sonne, in the second yeare of King Henry the third. He married Rohesia, daughter and heyre of Richard de Douer, sonne and heyre of Fulbert de Douer, who built the Castle of Chilham.

Geffrey Fitz-Roy, base sonne of King Iohn, who transported Soldiours into France, when Arch-Bishop Hubert forbad King Iohn his Father to go thither.

Ioane, base daughter of King Iohn, begotten of Agatha, daughter of William Earle Ferrars and Derby, was married to Lewellin Prince of Wales, 1204. with whom her Father gaue in marriage, the Castle and Lordship of Elinsmere, in the Marchesse of South-Wales.

King Henry the third.

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HEnry, sonne and heyre of king Iohn, was borne at Winchester, the first of October, in the yeare 1208. being the 10. yeare of his Fathers Reigne; & be∣ing of the age of nine yeares, was crowned King at Glocester, the 28. of October, 1216. by Peter, Bishop of Winchester, and the Protecti∣on of him and his Realme, was committed to William Marshall the elder, Earle of Penbroke; and after his death, 1218. hee was committed to Peter, Bishop of Winchester, by whose coun∣sell he was crowned the second time, at West∣minster, in the fift yeare of his Reigne. He had great trouble and wars with his Barons, and was taken prisoner at the battaile of Lewis in Sussex, 1263. and with him, Richard King of Romanes his Brother, and Prince Edward his sonne, with many others; Simon Mountfort Earle of Leicester, Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester, and Robert Earle Ferrars and Derby, being the Ring-leaders of the re∣bellious Barons. Not long after, the King, Prince and others were set at liberty, and raising new Forces, fought a battaile at Euersham in Worcestershire, where the Barons were discomfited, and Simon Earle of Leicester, with his eldest sonne, & Sir Hugh Spencer, and many others of great account were slaine. This ouer∣throw did vtterly defeat the Barons, and depriued them of all their hopes; and so reuiued the melancholy King, that now he began againe to be sensible of his strength, and resolued (with all speed possible) to breake those chaynes, with which so lately he was so strongly bound.

He married Elianor, second daughter and one of the co-heyres of Raymond Berengarius, Earle of Prouence, by Beatrix, daughter of Thomas Earle of Sauoy, and sister to the Earles Amee and Peter, and Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbu∣rie. She was married at Canterbury, the 14. of Ianuary, 1236. and was crowned at Westminster, the 19. day of Ianuary after. He fell sicke at S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, and dyed the 16. of Nouember, 1272. when he had liued 65. yeares, and reigned 56. yeares, and 28. dayes, and was buried at Westminster. She was his Wife 37. yeares, his Widdow 19. yeares, and dyed a Nun at Almesbury, the 25. of Iune, 1291. and was buried in her Monastery, the 11. of September after.

Et portoit, d'engleterre, gueulles trois lyons passant gardant d'or, arme & lampasse d'azur.

His Issue.

Edward eldest sonne, was borne at Westminster, the 28. of Iune, 1239, he was sur-named Long-shanks, of his tall & slender legs, he was made knight in Spaine, by Alphonsus King of Castile, and Earle of Chester by his Father, after the death of Dauid Earle of Chester, without issue male.

Edmond second sonne, borne the 26. of Ianuary, 1245. sur named Crouch∣backe, of bowing in his backe: He was entituled King of Cicilia and Apulia, & was created Earle of Lancaster. He had the lands of Simon Mountfort, Earle of Leicester, and Robert Ferrars Earle of Derby giuen him; who were disinherited, for raising war with the Barons, against the King. He dyed at Bayon in Gascoigne, the fift of Iune, 1296. being 50 yeares old; as in the Earles of Lancaster is more at large.

Richard third sonne dyed young, and was buried at Westminster.

Iohn fourth sonne, dyed also young, and was buried at Westminster.

William fift sonne dyed young, and was buried in the new Temple at London.

Henry fixt sonne dyed young, and was buried at Westminster.

Margaret eldest daughter, was the first Wife of Alexander the third, King of Scots.

Beatrix second daughter, borne at Burdeaux in Gascoigne, married to Iohn the first, Duke of Britaine, who had issue, Arthur and Iohn.

Katherine third daughter, borne at London, 1252. dyed young.

King Edward the First.

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EDward, eldest sonne of King Henry the third, was borne at Westminster, the 28. of Iune, 1239. was surnamed Long shanks of his long legs, and be∣gan his Reigne the 16. of Nouember, in the yeare of our Lord, 1272. beeing then beyond the Sea, comming homeward from the Holy-Land; and the 19. of August, in the second yeare of his Reigne, both he and his Queene Elianor were crownd at Westminster, by Robert Kilwarby Archbishop of Canterbury. At which Coronation, Alexander King of Scots, & Iohn Earl of Britaine were present, with their wiues, who were both sisters to K. Edward. At which sollemnity, fiue hundred great horses were let at liberty by the King of Scots, the Earles of Cornwall, Glocester, Penbrooke, Warren, & others as they alighted from their backs; and it was free for any that could, to catch & haue thē as their owne.

King Edward being returned out of Wales, diuers complaints were presen∣ted vnto him, against diuers of his Iustices, namely, Sir Thomas Weyland, Lord Chiefe-Iustice of the Kings Bench, Adam Stretton, William Brampton, Roger Leicester, and Iohn Luneth, all Iustices of the said Bench. with Robert Lithbury, Master of the Rolles; Sir Thomas Weyland, by a Quest of twelue men was found guilty, accessary of a murder, for releeuing the murderer after the deed done; For which, he tooke Sanctuary in the Church of the Fryars Minors at S. Ed∣monds-bury; from whence he was had, and brought and deliuered to Sir Robert Mallet Knight, who sent him to the Tower of London, and after banished the Land, and all his goods confiscated to the Kings vse. William Brampton, Roger Leicester, Iohn Luneth, and Richard Lithbury before named, being accused of wrongfull iudgements, and other foule mis-demeanors, were deliuered out of the Tower of London, by paying each of them a thousand Markes fyne; and Sa∣lomon de Rogester, Thomas de Sudington, Richard de Boiland, and Walter de Hop∣ton, Iustices that rode the circuites, were charged with the like offences, & were punished accordingly. Sir Raphe de Hingham, a Iustice of great account and who had the managing of the whole affaires of the Realme, was charged with many notorious abuses, and purchased his peace with a great summe of money; A∣dam de Stretten, Lord Chiefe-Baron of the Exchecquer, a man of great possessi∣ons, lost all his liuings, and 34. thousand Markes in ready money; and yet it was thought he had great fauour, in that he lost not his life.

King Edward married two wiues, and had issue by them both. Queene Elia∣nor his first Wife, was sister of Alphonsus King of Castile, and daughter of Fer∣dinando the third; She was married to him at Bures in Spaine, 1254. and was crowned with him, and liued with him 36. yeares, and dyed at Herdeby in Lin∣colnshire, the 29. of Nouember, 1290. and was buried at Westminster, and at eue∣ry place where she rested, comming from Herdeby, he erected a Crosse.

Margaret his second wife, was sister of Philip the faire, King of France, and eldest daughter of Philip the Hardy, son of S. Lewis; she was married vnto him at Canterbury, the 8. of September, 1299. She ouer-liued King Edward, and remai∣ned a Widdow ten yeares after, and dyed the 10. of Edward the second, 1317. and was buried in the Gray-Fryars in London, before the high Altar in the Qui∣er, which before she had built.

King Edward dyed at Brugh vpon the Sands, in the yeare 1307. the seuenth of Iuly, when he had reigned 34. yeares, seuen moneths, and odde dayes, being 68. yeares olde, and was buried at Westminster; vnto which Church he had gi∣uen a hundred pound lands a yeare.

Et portoit, de gueulles, au trois lyons paffant gardant d'or, armé & lampasse d'azur.

His Issue by his first Wife.

Iohn eldest sonne, borne at Winchester, and dyed a childe, and was buried at Westminster, the 8. of August, in the last yeare of King Henry the third.

Henry second sonne, dyed young, his Father being then in the Isle of Cicill, &

was buried at Westminster, the 20. of Nouember, 1272.

Alphons third sonne, borne in the Towne of Mayne in Gascoigne, as his Fa∣ther and Mother were comming out of the Holy-Land to England, the 23. of Nouember, 1273. and dyed at Windesore, the 4. of August, 1285. and was buried at Canterbury.

Edward the fourth sonne, borne at Cairnaruon in North-Wales, the 25. of A∣prill, 1284. After the death of Lewellyn ap Griffith, was created Prince of Wales, by his Father, being the first of the Kings sonnes of England, that had that Ti∣tle. He was also Earle of Ponthieu, and of Chester, and was made Knight by his Father, on Whitsonday, 1306.

Elianor eldest daughter, borne at Windesore, in the 50. yeare of her Fath•••••• Reigne, and was married with a Proxie, to a Deputy for Alphons King of Ar∣ragon, sonne of King Peter, who dyed before marriage, leauing his Kingdome to his Brother Iames. She was after married at Bristow, 1292. to Henry the third Earle of Barrie, in Champayne in France, and had issue, Edward Earle of Barrie, from whom the Dukes and Earles of Barrie do descend. Ioane her daughter, was married to Iohn Earle Warren and Surrey in England.

Ioane second daughter, was borne at Acon in the Holy-Land, where her Mother remained, during her Fathers wars with the Sarrazins, and beeing 18. yeares olde, was married to Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Glocester and Hartford, by whom she had issue, Gilbert Earle of Clare, slaine in Scotland without issue, and others as in the Title of Earles of Glocester. She married to her second hus∣band, Sir Raphe Mounthermer Knight, who (during his wiues life) was Earle of Glocester, and sate in all Parliaments by that Title. She liued 38. yeares, and dyed in the first yeare of the Reigne of King Edward the second, and was buried in the Fryers Augustines in Clare.

Margaret third daughter, borne in the Castle of Windesore, 1275. and at 18. yeares of age, was married at Westminster, on the 9. day of Iuly, 1290. to Iohn the second Duke of Brabant, and had issue, Iohn the third, Father of Margaret, wife of Lewis of Mechlyn, Earle of Flanders, and Mother of the Lady Marga∣ret, heyre of Brabant and Flanders, who was married to Phillip Duke of Bur∣gundy.

Berengaria the fourth daughter, borne 1276. and dyed a childe.

Alice the fift daughter, dyed young.

Mary sixt daughter, borne at Windesore the 22. of Aprill, 1279. was at ten yeares of a•••• made a Nun, at Ambresbury in Wiltshire, at the request of Queene Elianor her Grand-mother, who at that time, was Lady Abbesse there.

Elizabeth the seuenth daughter, was borne in Rutland Castle in Flintshire, 1284. and being 14. yeares olde, was married at London, to Iohn the first of that name, Earle of Holland, and Lord of Freezeland, who dyed two yeares after without issue. After whose death, she was married to Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford, without any dowry, by whom she had issue, Iohn and Humfrey, as in the Title of Earles of Hereford.

Beatrix, the eight daughter of King Edward the first.

Blanch the ninth daughter, dyed a Childe.

Issue by Queene Margaret, the second Wife.

Thomas, the fift sonne of King Edward the first, was borne at Brotherton, a little Village in Yorkshire, in the yeare 1300. and was (after the death of Roger Bigot) created Earle of Norfolke and Marshall of England. He had two wiues, the first was Alice, daughter of Sir Roger Hayles, of Harwich in Suffolke, by whō he had issue, Edward and others, as in the Title of Earles of Norfolke. His se∣cond wife was Mary, daughter of William Lord Ros, widdow of Sir Raphe Cob∣ham, who out liuing him, married the third time, William Lord Bruse, of Brember in Sussex.

Edmond the sixt sonne, was borne at Woodstocke in Oxfordshire, the fift of August, 1301. and was created Earle of Kent. He married Margaret, daughter of Iohn, and sister and sole heyre of Thomas Lord Wake of Lidell in Northamp∣tonshire, and had issue, two sonnes that dyed without issue, and one daughter, as in the Title of Earles of Kent. The daughter was Ioane, sur-named, The faire Maid of Kent, first married to William Mountague Earle of Salisbury; from whō being diuorced, she was after married to Sir Thomas Holland Earle of Kent, and by him had issue, Thomas and Iohn, both Dukes of Surrey, and Earles of Hun∣tington. Lastly, she married for her third husband, Edward the blacke Prince, & had issue, King Richard the second. This Edmond was beheaded at Winchester, the 19. of March, in the fourth yeare of King Edward the fourth his Nephew.

Elianor the tenth daughter, was borne at Winchester, the 6. of May, 1306. & dyed young without issue, and was buried in S. Peters Church at Westminster.

King Edward the second.

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EDward of Carnaruan, so named of the place of his birth, began his Reigne, the seuenth day of Iuly, 1307. and on the 24. day of February after, he with his Q. Isabell, were crowned at Westminster, by Hen∣ry, Bishop of Winchester. He caused Walter de Langton, Bishop of Couentry and Lichfield, and Lord Treasurer of England, to b•• ••rrested by Sir Iohn Felton, Constable of the Tower of London, and sent to Wallingford, there to bee kept prisoner, and his goods to bee confiscate and giuen to Pieres of Gaueston; which Pieres being before banished England by the said Bi∣shops meanes, was now sent for and receiued againe into most high fauour, and made Earle of Cornwall, his principall Secretary, & Lord Chamberlaine. By whose company and soci∣ety,

he was sodainly corrupted; whereby he neglected and disdained the good counsell and company of his Nobility, giuing himselfe to wantonnesse, passing his time in voluptuous pleasure, and riotous excesse. And to helpe this matter forward, Pieres furnished the Court with Iesters, Ruffians, flattering parasites, and other vile and naughty rybalds, that the King might spend both dayes and nights in iesting, playing, banquetting, and other such dishonourable exercises. And to aduance those like vnto himselfe, he procured for them honourable Of∣fices and preferments: all which, greatly encreased the hatred of the Nobility, and the more, in regard of his high & haughty cariage of himselfe. Being now aduanced to honour, he would not once yeeld an inch to any; which procured him great enuy amongst the cheefest Peeres of the Realme; namely, Henry La∣cy, Earle of Lincolne; Guy, Earle of Warwicke; and Almerick de Valence, Earle of Penbroke, the Earle of Arundell, and others; who, vpon such wrath and displea∣sure, as they had conceiued against him, thought it not meete to suffer the same any longer; in hope that the Kings minde might haply be altered to better pur∣pose, if the corrupter thereof were once banished from him.

Heereupon they assembled together in a Parliament time, at the New Tem∣ple in London, and there agreed, that the said Pieres should depart, and be bani∣shed the Realme againe the second time; and not to returne againe at any time after. To this the King (but sore against his will) agreed, and made his Let∣ters Patents to the saide Lords, to witnesse the same: and the Archbishop of Canterbury did pronounce the said Pieres accursed, if he tarried any longer then the time appointed him, and likewise all those that should ayde, helpe, or main∣taine him. Whereupon Pieres was constrained to ship himselfe at Bristow for Ireland, though sore against the Kings will, threatning the Lords to bee reuen∣ged. But not long after, Pieres returned againe into England, and came to the King at Yorke; at whose comming, the King greatly reioyced; and lying in the Bishops Pallace, caused Pieres to be lodged in the Castle, not farre from him.

Not long after, the King was willing (for his recreation) to take the Sea, lea∣uing Pieres of Gaueston at Yorke. The Barons pursued Gaueston, who fledde to Scarborough, where the Barons tooke him, and carried him to a place called Blacklow, and there the 9. of Iune, caused his head to be stricken off. Afterwards, the young Prince, the Queene and Nobility, finding fault with the two Spencers (Hugh the Father, and Hugh the sonne, for misleading and abusing the King & State, in like manner as Gaueston had done) caused them likewise to be taken & put to death, without any triall, or answer. Which done, the Queene with her Sonne and the Nobility, called a Parliament, wherin King Edward was iudged not worthy to beare or weare the Crowne; but (for diuers causes) was to be de∣posed, and Prince Edward his sonne, to bee chosen in his place. This beeing a∣greed on, King Edward being all this while prisoner in Kenilworth Castle, was taken and carried from thence by night, to Corffe Castle, and from thence to Barkely Castle, where he was most cruelly murdered, by Thomas Gorney & Iohn Maltreuers, and others his keepers. He was deposed the 25. of Ianuary, 1326. when he had reigned almost twenty yeares, and was murdered the 21. of Sep∣tember, 1327. and his body was buried at Glocester.

He married Isabell, daughter of Philip the faire King of France, and sister and heire of her three Brothers, Lodowike Hutin, Philip the long, and Charles the faire. She was married in our Lady Church at Bolloigne, the 22. of Ianuary, 1308. being but twelue yeares olde, and was his wife twenty yeares, and his widdow thirty, and dyed at Rising neere London, and was buried in the Gray-Fryars in London.

Et portoit, les armes de son peré.

His Issue.

Edward (sur-named of Windsore) eldest sonne, borne in Windsore Castle, the 13. of October, 1312. the sixt of his Fathers Reigne. He was first created Prince of Wales and Duke of Aquitaine, in a Parliament held at Yorke, 1322. and was made Lord warden of England; vnto whom all the Lords swore fealty, and re∣ceiued the oath of allegiance. He was after King of England, by the name of King Edward the third.

Iohn (sur-named of Eltham) second sonne, was borne at Eltham, in the yeare 1315. and at twelue yeares of age, was created Earle of Cornwall, at a Parlia∣ment held at Salisbury, 1327. and after dyed in Scotland at S. Iohns Towne, vn∣married, 1333. and lyeth buried at Westminster.

Ioane eldest daughter, was borne in the Tower of London, and was married at Barwicke (being very young) the eighteenth day of Iuly, 1329. to Dauid Prince of Scotland, sonne and heyre of Robert Bruse, being but seuen yeares of age. This Dauid was after King, by the name of Dauid the second. She was his wife 28. yeares, and comming into England to visite her brother King Edward the third, dyed without issue, 1353. and was buried in the Gray-Fryars in London.

Elianor second daughter, was married to Reginald, second Earle of Gelders, for his second Wife, and had giuen her in marriage, 15000. pounds, 1332. Who being Vicar general of the empire, to the emperor Lewis of Bauaria, created him the first Duke of Gelders. She had issue, Reginald and Edward, both Dukes after their Father, and dyed without issue, leauing his Dutchy and his Wife to his Ne∣phew William, Duke of Gulike, his halfe sisters sonne.

King Edward the third.

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EDward, the third of that Name, borne in Windesore Castle, 1312. after the de∣posing of his Father, began his Reigne the 25. of Ianu∣ary, 1327. and was crowned at Westmin∣ster, the first day of February after, by Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury.

And because he was but 14. yeares of age, and not able to gouerne of himselfe, it was decreed, that twelue of the greatest Lords within the Realme, should haue the rule and gouernment, vntill hee came of more yeares: which were, the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and Yorke, the Bi∣shops of Winchester and Hereford, Henry Earle of Lancaster, Thomas of Brother∣ton, Marshall of England; Edmond of Woodstocke, Earle of Rent; Iohn Earle War∣ren, Thomas Lord Wake, Henry Lord Per∣cy, Sir Oliuer Ingham, and the Lord Iohn Ros; who were sworne of the Kings coun∣sell, and charged with the gouernment, as they would answere the same.

In the first yeare of this Kings Reigne, dyed Charles King of France, the third Brother of Queene Isabell, Mother of King Edward the third; by whose death, the Kingdome of France did descend to King Edward, by Isabell his Mother, the onely sister and heyre of her three Brothers, Kodowike Hutin, Philiple Long, and Charles the faire, Kings of France. But the said Kingdome was vsurped and possessed by Philip de Valois, Vnckle to the saide Charles, who did intrude him∣selfe by force.

In the yeare 1339. King Edward going to make his clayme to the Kingdome of France, (praied ayde of the Flemings, who before had sworne, and bound themselues in a bond of a Million of golde in the Popes Chamber, that they should alwayes helpe the King of France, and fight vnder his Ensigne) for re∣lease whereof, King Edward, by the perswasion of Iaques D'Artuell of Gaunt, did quarter the Armes of France, with the Armes of England, and proclaimed himselfe King of France. By which acte, the Flemings held themselues dischar∣ged of their band and oath. After, Charles the sixt French King of that Name, enuying greatly, that the Kings of England should beare the Armes of France, (which was semie de luces) changed the same vnto three De luces; of which thing, King Henry the fift of England tooke example and bare the like. By rea∣son

whereof, the Kings of France, haue euer since ceased to make any further change of their Armes.

He married Philip, daughter of William Earle of Henault and Holland, and sisters daughter of Philip of Valoys, King of France afore mentioned. This mar∣riage was at Yorke, the 24. of Ianuary, and she was crowned at Westminster, the first Sunday in Lent following, 1327. She was his Wife 42. yeares, and dyed the 15. of August, 1369. and was buried at Westminster. King Edward her husband, dyed at Sheene, now called Richmond, the 21. of Iune, 1377. after hee had liued 65. yeares, and reigned 50. yeares, 4. moneths, and 28. dayes. His body was con∣uayed from Sheene, by his foure sonnes Lionell Duke of Clarence, Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster, Edmond of Langley Duke of Yorke, and Thomas of Wood∣stocke Earle of Cambridge, with others, and was buried at Westminster.

His Issue.

Edward eldest sonne (borne at Woodstocke the fifteenth of Iuly, 1329.) was created Prince of Wales, Duke of Aquitaine and Cornwall, and Earle of Chester, and Earle of Kent in right of his Wife Ioane, daughter of Edmond Earle of Kent (brother by the Father, to King Edward the second) She had bin twice married before, first to the Earle of Salisbury, and after to Thomas Holland. She had is∣sue by Prince Edward, two sonnes, Edward borne at Angolesme, who died yong; and Richard borne at Burdeaux, who was after King of England, by the name of King Richard the second.

This Prince had issue also, two bastard sonnes, Sir Iohn Sounder, and Sir Ro∣ger Claridon Knights; the latter was attainted in King Henry the fourths time.

William second sonne, was borne at Hatfield in Hartfordshtre, 1335. and was sur-named William of Hatfield; he had his christen name of William Earle of He∣nauls, his grand father, and dyed in his childhood, and was buried at Yorke.

Lionell third sonne, was borne in the Citty of Antwerpe, the 29. of Nouem∣ber, 1338. and was sur-named of Antwerpe. He had two Wiues, the first was Elizabeth, daughter and heyre of William Burgh, Earle of Vlster in Ireland, in whose right he was first created Earle of Vlster. And because he had with her the Honour of Clare in Norfolke, as parcell of the Inheritance of her Grand∣mother (Elizabeth, sister and co-heyre of the last Gilbert de Clare Earle of Gloce∣ster) He was in Parliament, 1362. created Duke of Clarence; from which Dut∣chic, the name of Clarenceux, King of Armes of the South parts of England, ta∣keth his denomination. He had issue by the saide Elizabeth, one onely daughter named Phillip, married to Edmond Mortimer Earle of March, Grand-father of Anne, Countesse of Cambridge, Grand-mother of King Edward the fourth.

He was after married at Millaine in Lumbardy, to the Lady Violanta, daugh∣ter of Galeazo, the second Duke thereof; as in the Earles of Clare is set forth.

Iohn fourth sonne, borne at Gaunt in Flanders, 1340. was first created Earle

of Richmond, which was surrendred to Iohn Duke of Britaine, sur-named The valiant, who had married Mary his sister, to whose Dukedome formerly it had belonged.

This Iohn married three Wiues, the first was Blanch, daughter and heire of Henry Duke of Lancaster (sonne of Edmond Croochbacke) by whom he had is∣sue, King Henry the fourth; Phillip, Wife to Iohn the first, King of Portingall; and Elizabeth, first married to Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington, and after to Sir Iohn Cornwall Baron of Fanhope. His second Wife was Constance, eldest daugh∣ter of Peter King of Castile and Leon, in whose right he intituled himselfe King of both those Realmes, and had issue Katherine, Wife to Henry the third, sonne of King Iohn, King of both those Realmes.

His third Wife was Katherine Swynford, Widdow of Sir Otho or Otes Swyn∣ford, Knight of Lincolnshire, daughter and co-heyre of Sir Payn Roet, alias Guien, King of Armes, a Gascoigne borne, whose other daughter Anne, was married to Sir Geffrey Chaucer Knight, the Poet. By this Katherine Swinford, he had issue before marriage, and made legitimate by Acte of Parliament, the 20. yeare of King Richard the second; Iohn Earle of Somerset, Thomas Duke of Excester, & Earle of Dorset, Henry Bishop of Winchester, and Cardinall; and Ioane, first married to Raphe Neuill, first Earle of Westmerland, and after to Robert Ferrars, Baron of Ouesley. These children begotten of Katherine Swynford, were sur-na∣med Beauforts, of Beaufort Castle in France, where they were borne.

Edmond of Langley fift sonne, was created Earle of Cambridge, in the 36. yeare of King Edward the third, and after Duke of Yorke, 1386. He married Isa∣bell, daughter and co heyre of Peter, King of Castile and Leon, as in the Title of Earles of Cambridge and Dukes of Yorke.

William, sur-named of Windsore, where he was borne, dyed young.

Thomas the youngest sonne, sur-named of Woodstocke (where he was borne) was by King Richard the second, first created Earle of Buckingham, and after D. of Glocester, as in those Titles is more at large.

Isabell, eldest daughter of King Edward the third, was married at Windsore to Ingelram de Guisnes, Lord of Coucy, Earle of Soysons, and Duke of Austria, whom King Edward her Father, made Earle of Bedford, by whom she had issue two daughters, Mary, married to Henry of Barre, and Philip, Wife to Robert Vere Earle of Oxford, Duke of Ireland, and Marquesse of Dublyn, who after forsooke her, and married one Lancerona, a Ioyners daughter, who came into England with Queene Philip out of Bohemia.

Ioane second daughter, married by Proxy to Alphons, the eleuenth King of Castile and Leon.

Blanch third daughter dyed young, and was buried at Westminster.

Mary fourth daughter, married to Iohn Mountfort Duke of Britaine.

Margaret youngest daughter, was the first Wife of Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke.

King Richard the second.

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RIchard the second, borne at Burdeaux, sonne of Edward the blacke Prince, and grand∣childe to King Edward the third, being eleuen yeares olde, began his Reigne the 21. day of Iune, in the yeare of our Lord, 1377. and was crow∣ned King at Westminster, the 16. of Iuly. In beauty, bounty and liberality, he farre passed all his Progenitors; but was ouer∣much giuen to rest and quietnesse, little regarding matters of Armes: and being young, was most ruled by young Coun∣sell, regarding little the Counsell of the sage and wise men of the Realm. Which thing, turned this Land to great trouble, & himselfe to extreme misery; For being first disgraced by his Cousin, Henry of Bullingbroke, Duke of Hereford, sonne of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster, he was at length by him (with the generall con∣sent of a whole Parliament) deposed frō his Crowne and Kingdome, the 29. of September, 1399. and committed to pri∣son, and afterwards wickedly murdered. For being sent to Pomfret Castle to be safely kept, and Princely maintained; was shortly after by King Henries di∣rection and commandement, (who feared least his Estate might bee shaken, so long as King Richard liued) wickedly assaulted in his lodging, by Sir Pieres of Exton, and eight other armed men, from one of which (with a Princely cou∣rage) he wrested a browne Bill, and therewith slew foure of them; and with an admirable resolution, fought with all the rest: vntill comming by his owne Chaire (in which the base cowardly Knight himselfe stood for his owne safety) he was by him stricken with a Pole-axe, in the hinder part of his head, that pre∣sently he fell downe to the ground and dyed, when hee had reigned 22. yeares, 14. weekes, and two dayes.

He married two Wiues, the first was Anne, daughter of the Emperor Charles the fourth, and sister of Wenceslaus, Emperour and King of Bohemia, who was crowned Queene the 22. of Ianuary, 1384. hauing bene his Wife ten yeares, and dyed at Sheene in Surrey, 1394. and was buried at Westminster without is∣sue.

His second Wife was Isabell, daughter of Charles the sixt, King of France, whom he affianced in the 19. yeare of his Reigne, she being then but 7. yeares olde: by reason whereof, he neuer had any company with her. She was after the said Richards death, sent back againe into France, being then not full twelue yeares olde, without any dowry, because the marriage was neuer consumated. The Lord Henry Percy had the conuaying of her, in the yeare, 1401.

Et portoit, France seme escar••elle d'engleterre.

King HENRY the Fourth.

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THE right of the Crowne of England, after the death of King Richard without issue, ought to haue descen∣ded to Edmond Mortimer, Earle of March, sonne and heyre of Ro∣ger Mortimer, whose Mother Philip, was daughter and heyre of Lionell, Duke of Clarence, third sonne of king Edward the third. Which notwithstanding, Henry, sur-named of Bullingbroke, Duke of He∣reford, and sonne and heyre of Iohn of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, fourth Son of king Edward the third, was elected king, and began his Reigne the 29. of Septem∣ber, 1399. After which, he made many new Officers, viz. Thomas his second son, he made Lord high Steward of England. The Earle of Northumberland, Consta∣ble of England. The Earle of Westmer∣land, Marshall of England, &c. and was crowned at Westminster, the 13. of Octo∣ber after. The Dukes of Yorke, Surrey & Albemarle, with the Earle of Glocester, bare the Canopy ouer him (which Office, now the Barons of the Cinque-Ports do execute) Sir Tho: Dymmoke (ancestor of the now Noble and worthy knight, Sir Edw. Dymmok of Lincolnshire) was Champion, and rode 3. times about the Hall in compleate armor, challenging any that should gaine-say the kings right, throwing down his Gauntlet to maintaine the same. He created Henry his eldest Son, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Earle of Chester, and heyre apparent to the Crown; and at his death, he gaue him this charge to keepe (as he would an∣swer the same before God) viz. To minister the Lawes indifferently, to ease the op∣pressed, to beware of flatterers, not to defer iustice, nor to be sparing of mercy. Punish (quoth he) the oppressors of thy people, so shalt thou obtaine fauor of God, and loue of thy subiects; who, whiles they haue wealth, so long shalt thou haue obedience; but be∣ing made poore by oppressions, will be euer ready to stir & make rebellion & insurrec∣tion.

He yeelded to God his spirit, the 20. day of March, 1412. the 46. yeare of his age, when he had reigned 13. yeares, sixe moneths, lacking ten dayes. His body being conueyed to Canterbury, was there buried.

He married two Wiues, the first was Mary, second daughter and co-heyre of Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, Essex and Northampton, and Constable of England, who dyed in the yeare 1394. and was buried at Canterbury.

His second Wife was Ioane, daughter of Charles King of Nauarre, and Wid∣dow of Iohn Mountfort Duke of Britaine, who dyed at Hauering in the Bower in Essex, without issue, the tenth of Iuly, 1437. and was buried at Canterbury.

His Issue by his first Wife.

Henry eldest sonne, was created Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall & Earle of Chester, in the first yeare of his Fathers Keigne. This Henry, in the time of his Fathers banishment, was sent into Ireland; and, vpon hearing of his Fathers a∣riuall into England, King Richard caused him to bee imprisoned with Humfrey, sonne and heyre of Thomas of Woodstocke, in the Castle of Trime in Ireland; but in the first yeare of King Henry the 4. they were both deliuered, and comming into England, Humfrey dyed of the plague at Chester.

Thomas second sonne, was created Duke of Clarence, in the eleuenth yeare of King Henry the 4. and in the 8. yeare of King Henry the 5. he was made Lieute∣nant Generall of France and Normandy; and (in the yeare after) was slaine at Bangy-Bridge in France, by the Duke of Orliance. He married Margaret, daugh∣ter of Thomas Holland Earle of Kent, and Widow of Iohn Beaufort Earle of So∣merset; as is more at large in the Title of the Dukes and Earles of Clarence.

Iohn third sonne, was made Duke of Bedford, the 11. yeare of King Henry the 4. his Father; and in the fift yeare of Henry the 5. his brother, he was by Parli∣ament made Regent of England, and Head of the publike Wealth. He knighted King Henry the 6. his Nephew, at a Parliament held at Leicester, in the 4. yeare of his Reigne. And in the first yeare of the said King Henry the 6. being made Regent of France, Charles King of France dying: the most part of France was deliuered to him by the Nobility there, to the vse of King Henry the sixt. His marriages and death is more at large in the Title of Bedford.

Humfrey, fourth sonne of King Henry the 4. was by his Brother King Henry the 5. made Duke of Glocester; and in the first yeare of Henry the 6. he was made Protector of the Kingdome of England, for 15. yeares, during the said kings mi∣nority; and was stiled, Humfrey, by the grace of God, Sonne, Brother and Vnckle to Kings, Duke of Glocester, Henault, Holland, Zeland and Penbroke, Lord of Friez∣land, great Chamberlaine of England, Protector and Defender of the Kingdome and Church of England. He had two Wiues.

His first Wife was Iaquet, daughter and heyre of William, Duke of Bauaria, and Earle of Holland, who was before betrothed to Iohn Duke of Brabant, and was therefore after diuorced from this Humfrey without issue.

His second Wife was Elianor, daughter of Reginald, Lord Cobbam of Ster∣burgh

in Surrey, who for witchcraft and poysonings, was much defamed. Queene Margaret, Wife to King Henry the sixt, enuyed greatly his estate & go∣uernment, and practised with others, his ouerthrow and destruction; for after, he was found murdered in his bed, at Bury in Suffolke, and was after buried at S. Albons in Hertfordshire.

Blanch eldest daughter, was married at Collen, to William Duke of Bauaria, sonne and heyre of Lewis of Bauaria. After she married the King of Arragon: and thirdly, she married the Duke of Barre, but had no issue by any of them.

Philip, second daughter of King Henry the 4. was married to Iohn, King of Denmarke and Norway, and dyed without issue.

King HENRY the fift.

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HEnry the fift, sur-named of Monmouth in the Mar∣ches of Wales, where he was borne, in the yeare 1388. Hee began his reigne, the 20. day of March, in the yeare of our Lord 1412. And the ninth day of Aprill after, hee was crowned King at Westminster, by Thomas of Arundell, Archbishop of Canterbury. Which done, he called before him all his yong Lords and Companions, that were followers of his young actions; to euery of them he gaue rich guifts, and commanded, that as many as would change their life and manners, (as he intended to do) should follow him still; and to those that would persist in their former life and conuersa∣tion, hee commanded vppon paine of death, neuer after to come in his pre∣sence. This Prince, by the instigation and prouokement of some of these vnthrifty and lewd Companions, in his Fathers dayes, smote the then Lord Chiefe-Iu∣stice of the Kings Bench, a blow on the Face: for which, hee was by his Father imprisoned, and put from his place of being President of the Kings Counsell; which Office (to his great greefe and disgrace) the King gaue to Thomas Duke of Clarence, his second sonne.

This King following his Father vsed euery day when no state was kept, after dinner, to haue a Cushion laid on the cupboord, & there to leane a whole houre or more, to receiue Petitions and heare complaints of whosoeuer would come.

And in those dayes, when the King dyned in his Chamber, the Steward of the Houshold, sate alwayes in the Hall, vnder the Cloth of Estate, the same being rolled vp aboue his head, and such Knights with him, as waited that time vpon the King. He dyed in the Castle of Boys de Viscenne, not farre from Paris, the 13. day of August, 1422, when he had reigned nine yeares, fiue moneths, and odde dayes, being 36. yeares old, and was buried at Westminster.

He married Katherine, daughter of Charles the sixt, King of France, at Troyes in Champaigne, the third of Iune, 1420. and the 14. of February after, she was crowned at Westminster, and was his Wife, two yeares and three moneths. She was after married to a Noble Gentleman, named Owen Theodor of Wales, by whom she had issue three sonnes, Edmond, Iasper and Owen; Edmond was made Earle of Richmond; and married Margaret, daughter and sole heyre of Iohn D. of Somerset, and had issue, King Henry the seuenth: Iaspher the second sonne, was Earle of Penbroke, and after Duke of Bedford. This Queene Katherine dyed at Bermondsey in Southwarke, the second of Iune, 1436. and was buried at Westminster, leauing issue by King Henry the fift her husband, King Henry the sixt. This King left Seme de lices, and bare three.

Et portoit, France, escartelle d'engleterre.

King HENRY the sixt.

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HEnry the sixt, borne at Windsore, being an infant not nine moneths olde, began his Reigne the last of August, in the yeare of our Lord, 1422. The gouernment of his Realmes was committed to Humfrey Duke of Glocester, and the guard of his person to Thomas Duke of Excester, and to Iohn Duke of Bedford, the Regiment of France. These his three Vnckles, with great wisedome and valour discharged the trust committed vnto them. This Henry, on the sixt of Nouember, 1429. in the 8. yeare of his Reigne was crow∣ned at Westminster with solemnization. Hee tooke his iourney to France, and comming to Paris, was receiued with great solemnity: and on the 17. of No∣uember, 1431. was crowned King of France, in our Lady Church in Paris.

Hee espoused Margaret, daughter of Reyner, Duke of Aniou, (and titulary

of Cicily, Naples and Ierusalem) by Proxy at the Citty of Towers in Touraine, in Saint Martyns Church, by William de la Pole his Procurator, in the presence of the French King and Queene; which King, was Vnckle to the Brides Father, and the French Queen, Aunt to her Mother. She being conueyed to the Abbey of Tichfield, was there solemnly married to King Henry the sixt, the 22. of A∣prill, 1445. and was crowned at Westminster, the 30. day of May after. In the 33. yeare of this Kings Reigne, he lost the battaile at S. Albons; and was ta∣taken prisoner at the battaile of Northampton, by the Earle of Warwicke, the 38. yeare of his Reigne; and the yeare after, was deliuered againe by Queen Mar∣garet his Wife, after the second battaile of S. Albons; but in the same, after the battaile at Mortimers Crosse, the King and Queene fled to Yorke; and the Earle of March, comming to London with his power, was proclaimed King of Eng∣land. And in the fourth yeare of his Reigne, hee tooke King Henry, neere the Abbey of Selby in Lancashire, and brought him prisoner to the Tower of Lon∣don. And in the ninth yeare of his Reigne, King Henry the sixt, was againe de∣liuered, by the Duke of Clarence and the Earle of Warwicke.

King Edward flying into Flanders, was proclaimed a Vsurper; but the next yeare after, King Edward returning againe into England, and comming to Lon∣don, tooke king Henry in the Bishops Pallace, and after gaue battaile to the Earle of Warwicke, at Barnet, where the said Earle, with his brother Iohn Neuill Mar∣quesse Mountague were slaine. And in the same yeare, 1471. he also gaue a great ouerthrow to Queene Margaret, at Tewkesbury; in which battaile, the saide Queene, with Prince Edward her onely sonne, were taken prisoners; Prince Edward being first stricken by King Edward, Richard Duke of Glocester, stabbed him to the heart with his Dagger. The Queene his Mother was conuayed to London, where she remained in prison, vntill Reyner her Father purchased her deliuerance with great summes of money; who after returning to her owne Country, there dyed.

After this battaile at Tewkesbury, King Edward the fourth came to London, on the 21. of May, 1471. with thirty thousand men: and the same night, King Henry was murdered in the Tower of London, and the morrow after, brought into S. Paules Church in London, in an open Coffin bare-faced, where hee bled: From thence he was conuayed to the Blacke-Fryars, and there also bled. Lastly, his body was conuayed to Windsore, and there buried.

King Edward the fourth.

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EDward, Earle of March, borne at Roan in Norman∣dy, sonne and heyre of Ri∣chard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke, by Cicely Neuill, daughter of Rafe, Earle of Westmerland; about the age of eighteene yeares, began his Reigne, the 4. day of March, 1460. and was crowned at Westminster, the 28. of Iune after.

Philip Commines, writing of the death of this King Edward the fourth, saith. The late King Edward the 4. of England, be∣ing heyre of the House of Yorke, vtterly destroyed the House of Lancaster, vnder the which, both his Father and he had li∣ued many yeares. And although the said King Edward had done homage to King Henry the 6. being of the house of Lanca∣ster: did he not afterwards hold him pri∣soner many yeares, in the Tower of Lon∣don, where in the end he was murdered? Haue wee not seene also (saith hee) the Earle of Warwicke, principall Gouernour of all the said King Edwards Offices (after he had put to death all his enemies, especially the Duke of Somerset) in the ende became deadly enemy to the king his Master, gaue his daughter in marriage, to Edward Prince of Wales, sonne of King Henry, attempted againe to set vp the house of Lancaster, past with the said Prince into England, discomfited in the field and slaine, both he and his bro∣ther, with many other Noblemen their kindred, and others, who in time past had done the like to their enemies? After all this, the children of these, when the world turned, reuenged themselues, and caused (in like manner) the other to die. For after King Edward was quiet in his place and Realme, and receiued yearely out of France, 50000. Crownes, paide him in the Tower of London, and was growne so rich, that richer he could not be; he dyed sodainly, as it were of me∣lancholy, because of the French Kings marriage with the Lady Margaret, the Duke of Austriches daughter. For so soone as hee was aduertised thereof, hee fell sicke, and began then to perceiue, how he had bene abused, touching the marriage of his daughter, whom he had caused to be called the Lady Dolphi∣nesse: then also was the pension (which he had receiued out of France) taken frō him, which he called Tribute, &c.

He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Wooduile Earle Riuers, and Ia∣queline his Wife, Dutchesse of Bedford, and Widdow of Sir Iohn Grey, slaine at S. Albons, where he was knighted, the day before his death, by King Henry the sixt. After whose death, she was priuatly married to King Edward the fourth, the first day of May at his Mannot of Grafton in Northamptonshire, 1464. and the next yeare after, was crowned Queene at Westminster, the 26. day of May. She was his Wife, 18. yeare, eleuen moneths, and nine dayes, and in the beginning of King Edward the fift (her sonnes Reigne) she was forced to take Sanctuary at Westminster; and after, hauing all her lands and possessions seized vpon by King Henry the seuenth, liued in meane estate in the Monastery of Bermondsey in Southwarke, where not long after she dyed, and was buried at Windsore, by King Edward her husband, who dyed before at Westminster, the 9. day of April, 1483. at the age of 41. yeares, when he had reigned 22. yeares, one moneth, and odde dayes.

His Issue.

Edward, eldest sonne of King Edward the fourth, borne in the Sanctuary at Westminster, the 4. of Nouember, 1471. the tenth yeare of his Fathers Reign; at that time King Edward was expulsed the Realme, by the Earle of Warwicke; but Fortune changing, the Father was restored, and the Sonne created Prince of Wales, and Earle of Chester, the first of Iuly.

Richard, second sonne of King Edward the fourth, borne at Shrewsbury, and being but a childe, was created Duke of Yorke. He was betrothed vnto Anne, daughter and heyre of Iohn Mowbray Duke of Norfolke, Earle Marshall, War∣ren and Nottingham; but he enioyed neither wife, nor life long, for he was (with his brother Edward) murdered in the Tower of London; which place euer since is called, The bloody Tower.

George third sonne, was also borne at Shrewsbury, and being very yong, di∣ed and was buried at Windsore.

Elizabeth eldest daughter, borne at Westminster, the 11. of February, 1466. she was promised in marriage to Charles the Dolphin of France, wooed and cour∣ted by Richard Duke of Glocester, her vnhappy Vnckle, after he had murdered her two Brothers, and he then King; but after she was married to King Henry the seuenth.

Cecily second daughter, was motioned to marry Iames, Prince of Scotland & Duke of Rothsay, but it tooke no effect, and so she was married after to Iohn Vis∣count Welles, whom she out-liued, and married againe to one Kyme of Lincolne∣shire, and dyed without issue.

Anne third daughter, married to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolke, Earle Marshall, and Lord Treasurer of England, and had issue, two sonnes who died very young. She dyed without issue, and was buried at Framingham in Norfolke.

Bridget fourth daughter, was borne at Eltham in Kent, the tenth of Nouem∣ber, 1480 and was a Nunne at Dartford, where she remained till she dyed.

Mary fift daughter, was promised in marriage to the King of Denmarke; but she dyed before marriage, in the Tower of Greenwich, 1482. and was buried at windsore.

Margaret sixt daughter, dyed in her Infancy.

Katherine seuenth daughter, married William Courtney, Earle of Deuonshire, and Lord of Ochampton, and had issue, Henry Earle of Deuonshire, whom Henry the eight created Marquesse of Excester, 1525.

His Bastards.

Arthur Plantagenet, base sonne of King Edward the fourth, begotten of Eli∣zabeth Lucy, was created Viscount Lisle at Bridewell in London, the 26. of Aprill, 1533. in right of his Wife Elizabeth, sister and heyre of Sir Iohn Grey Viscount Lisle the Widdow of Edmond Dudley. This Arthur had issue three daughters; Bridget, Francis and Elizabeth, as is more at large in the Title of Viscounts.

Elizabeth, base daughter of King Edward the fourth, married to Sir Thomas Lumley Knight, who dyed before his Father George Lord Lumley, and had issue, Richard Lord Lumley, that dyed the second of King Henry the eight; & George Lumley a second sonne.

King EDVVARD the fift.

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THis young King, being vn∣der the protection of Ri∣chard Duke of Glocester his vnnaturall Vnckle, at the death of his Father beeing in Wales, was brought and lodged in the Bishops Pallace of London, the 4. day of May, 1483. The Queene his Mother, with his yong brother the Duke of Yorke being in the Sanctuary at Westminster; Richard, the then Protector, sent the ho∣nest Lord Cardinall to the Queene, for the deliuery of the saide Duke of Yorke out of the Sanctuary; who by his sweet and poysoned words, and protestations to his Mother, that it wold be for all their good to deliuer him: This yong Prince was deliuered, and brought to the King his Brother, in the Bishops Pallace of London, and from thence conuayed to the Tower of London, with shew of pre∣paration for the day of Coronation; where they remained some two months. At which time, the saide Protectour sent one Greene (a trusty seruant of his) vnto Sir Robert Brakenbury, then Constable of the Tower, to murder the said two Princes; who stoutly denying to doe so foule an acte, Sir Iames Tirrell, a seruant of the said Protectors, was sent to Bra∣kenbury the day after, to haue the keyes of the Tower, and custody of those two Infants deliuered to him. Which being done accordingly, the young King and his brother were shut vp together, and al company remoued from them, sauing that miscreant dog, that was to execute that bloody and butcherly acte; who about midnight, brought a rout of Runnagates into their Chamber, who sud∣denly lapping them vp amongst the cloaths of their bed, smothered these two sweete Babes, the Lords Annointed.

This young King, was at his Fathers death, eleuen yeares, fiue moneths, & fiue dayes old.

King Richard the Third.

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RIchard the third, borne at Fo∣theringhay Castle in North∣amptonshire, third sonne of Ri∣chard Duke of Yorke, and bro∣ther to King Edward the fourth, Lord Protector, and murderer of king Edward the fift his Nephew: And (by common report) a monster in nature; for hee had many teeth when he was borne. He was very much deformed of his body; of sta∣ture he was but low, croocke-backed, his left shoulder much higher then the right, his visage vncomely, his complection swart, his left arme withered almost to the bone. He made his conscience in all things to serue his will, though his will could not be obtained, without the effu∣sion of guiltlesse blood. He was so cun∣ning a dissembler, that he would accom∣pany (most familiarly) with such as in∣wardly he hated in his heart. He spared no mans death, whose life resisted his vn∣godly purposes.

This Richard, was honored with the Title of Glocester, a title and name euer ominous, all of them dying violent and vntimely deaths: which hee regarded not, his destiny enforcing, his aspiring minde gaue him no rest, vntill his restlesse body found it lastly in the graue. He was slaine at a battaile fought at Redmore neere Bosworth, the 22. of August, 1485. when he had reigned two yeares, two moneths, and fine dayes.

The slaine body, all tugged and torne naked, and not so much as a clout left to couer his shame, was trussed behind Blanch Sengler, his Pursuiuant of Arms, like a Hog or Calfe, his head and armes hanging on the one side of the horse, & his legs on the other side, all besprinkled with mire and blood, & was so brought to Leicester, and there for a miserable spectacle, the space of two daies lay naked and vnburied: his remembrance being as odious to all, as his person deformed and loathsome to be looked vpon. Lastly, his body was buried at Leicester, with∣out any Funerall pompe. He married Anne, second daughter and co-heyre of Richard Neuill, Earle of Warwicke and Salisbury, and had issue, Edward their onely childe, created by King Edward the fourth, Earle of Salisbury, and by his Father, Prince of Wales, as in the Earles of Salisbury is set foorth.

King HENRY the Seuenth.

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HEnry, earle of Rich∣mond, borne in Pē∣broke Castle, sonne of Edmond of Had∣ham, Earle of Rich∣mond, and Marga∣ret his wift, daugh∣ter and onely heyre of Iohn Beaufort, D. of Somerset: which Edmond of Hadham, was sonne and heyre of Owen Tudor, begotten of Queene Katherine, Widdow of King Henry the fift, and daughter of Charles the sixt French King. This Henry fledde into Britaine, in the first yeare of King Edward the fourth; and in the se∣cond yeare of king Richard the third, he arriued and landed at Milford Hauen in Wales, and with a small power came to Leicester, and at a little Towne thereby called Bosworth, where a cruell battaile being fought; King Richard was slaine in the Field; and his Crown which he ware (being found) was by the Earle of Derby and others, put vpon this Henries head, and presently proclaymed King of England in the Field, 1485.

He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of King Edward the 4. the 18. day of January, 1485. shee being nineteene yeares olde, whereby was vnited the two Families of Yorke and Lancaster, to the great ioy of all English Subiects, be∣twixt whom, infinite contentions and mortall warres, had formerly consumed and destroyed many thousands of noble and valiant Gentlemen. Shee was crowned at Westminster, the 25, of Nouember, 1487. the third of her Husbands Reigne, and continued his Wife, 18. yeares, and 24. dayes, and dyed in Childe∣bed in the Tower of London, the eleuenth of February, being the day of her birth, 1503. and was buried at Westminster.

His Issue.

Arthur, eldest sonne and heyre, borne at Winchester, the 20. day of Septem∣ber, 1486, who, by his Father was created Prince of Wales, in the fift yeare of his Reigne, Duke of Corn••ill, and Earle of Chester; who, vpon the 14 day of No∣uember, 1501. being fifteene yeares old, married Katherine, daughter of Ferdi∣nando King of Spain••; she being then about eighteene yeares of age. This mar∣riage was solemnized in ••he Cathedral Church of S. Paul in London, and within 4. moneths and 19. dayes after, he dyed at Ludlow, the second of Aprill, 1502. he being then 15. yeares 6 moneths, and 13. dayes olde, and was buried at Wor∣cester, in S. Maries Church.

Henry second sonne, borne at Greenwich in Kent, the 22. of Iune, 1491. In his infancy he was created Duke of Yorke, and Marshall of England; and after King of England.

Edmond third sonne, was borne in the yeare 1495. and was created Earle of Somerset, and dyed young at Bishops Hatfield, being not sine yeares olde, 1499. and was buried at Westminster.

Margaret eldest daughter, borne the 29. of Nouember, 1489. and being 14. yeares olde, was married to Iames the fourth, King of Scotland, 1503, and had issue, Iames the fift, King of Scotland, Arthur and Alexander, and one daughter, all which but the eldest, dyed without issue yong. Shee married to her second husband, Archibald Douglas, Earle of Anguish, 1514. by whom she had issue, Margaret, married to Mathew Earle of Lenox, who had issue, Henry Lord Dern∣ley, after King of Scotland in right of Mary Queene of Scotland his Wife, by whom he had issue, Iames, King of great Britaine, 1618.

Elizabeth second daughter, borne the second of Iuly, 1492. and dyed the 14. of September, 1495. and was buried at Westminster.

Mary third daughter, was first married to Lewis King of France, who liued not long with her, but dyed without issue. After whose death, she married for her second husband, Sir Charles Brandon a Noble Knight, and after Duke of Suffolke, as in the Title of Earles of Suffolke is more at large.

Katherine fourth daughter, borne vpon Candlemas day, 1503. in the 18. yeare of her Fathers Reigne, who dyed young.

King HENRY the Eight.

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KIng HENRY the eight, borne at Greenwich, the 22. of Iune, 1491. and at the age of twelue yeares, was by his Father, cre∣ated Duke of Yorke, and (after his Bro∣ther Arthurs deth) Prince of Wales. And in the 18. yeare of his age, he began his Reigne of King of England, the 22. of Aprill, and on the 25. day of Iune after, was crowned with his Wife Queen Ka∣therine, at Westminster, 1509. And in the fourth yeare of his Reigne, hee wonne Turwin and Turney; hauing vnder his Banner, the Emperor Maximillian, with most of the Nobility of Brabant, Plan∣ders and Holland. And in the 37. yeare of his Reigne, the Towne of Boloigne was yeelded vnto him; hee being there in person, at the winning thereof. Hee married sixe Wiues, and died on Thurs∣day, the 28. of Ianuary, 1547. when he had Reigned King, 37. yeares, and ten moneths.

His Wiues.

KAtherine, the first Wife of King Henry the eight, was daughter of Ferdinan∣do the sixt, King of Spaine (and the Widdow of Prince Arthur his brother) and was married to King Henry the eight, the third of lune, 1509. and was crow∣ned with him, the 25. day of Iune after: And twenty yeares after was diuorced from him, by the Bishop of Canterbury. She dyed at Kimbalton in Huntingtonshire, the 8 of Ianuary 1535. and was buried in Peterborough Church.

ANNE, the second Wife of King Henry the eight, was second daughter of Sir Thomas Bullen, Earle of Wiltshire and Ormond. She was first created Marchionesse of Penbroke, hauing one thousand pounds a yeare giuen her to maintaine her estate; and was married to him in the Closet at White-Hall, the 25. of Ianuary, 1533. and was crowned at Westminster, on Whitsunday the first of Iune. She was his Wife, three yeares, three moneths, and 25. dayes, and after was beheaded in the Tower of London, the 19. of May, 1536. and was buried in the Chappell, within the said Tower.

IAne the third Wife, was daughter of Sir Iohn Seymour Knight, and sister of Edward, Earle of Hartford and Duke of Somerset. She was married vnto King Henry the eight, the 20. day of May, which was the very next day after the be∣heading of Queene Anne. This Iane, was his Wife one yeare, fiue moneths, and 24. dayes, and dyed in childe-bed of King Edward the sixt, the 14. of October, 1537. and was buried at Windsore.

ANne of Cleue, the fourth Wife of King Henry the 8. was sister of William, Duke of Cleue, and was married vnto him at Greenwich, the 6. of Ianuary, 1540. in the 31. yeare of the said Kings Reigne, and was his Wife sixe moneths, and the yeare after was diuorced, and by Acte of Parliament decreed, that she should be no more called nor taken for Queene; but should be called the Lady Anne of Cleeue. She remained in England, long after King Henries death, & was marshalled with the Lady Elizabeth, going through London, to the Coronation of Queene Mary, 1553.

KAtherine Howard, the fift Wife of King Henry the 8. was daughter of Lord Edmond Howard, brother of Thomas Howard, the third Duke of Norfolk of that Family, & was married to the said King, the 8. of August, 1540. at Hampton-Court, and was his Wife, one yeare, sixe moneths, and 4. dayes. She was conuic∣ted of adultery, and by Parliament adiudged to bee beheaded in the Tower of London, the 12. of February, and was buried in the Chappell there, by Queene Anne Bullen, 1542.

KAtherine Parre, widdow of Iohn Neuill, Lord Latimer, and daughter of Sir Thomas Par of Kendall Knight, and sister of William Par, Marquesse of Northampton, was sixt Wife to King Henry the eight, and was married to him at Hampton-Court the 12. of Iuly, in the yeare 1543. She was his Wife, 3. yeares, 6. moneths, and 5. dayes. She was after King Henries death, married to Thomas Seymour, Lord Admirall, and after his decease, she married Edward Burgh, sonne of Thomas Lord Burgh. She dyed in child-bed, 1548.

Issue by his first Wife.

Henry, first sonne of King Henry the eight, begotten of Queene Katherine his first Wife, was borne at Richmond in Surrey, the first of Ianuary, 1509. who liued not full two moneths, and dyed the 22. of February after, and was buried at Westminster.

Another sonne, whose name is not well knowne, borne of Queene Kathe∣rine his first Wife, in the sixt yeare of his Reigne, who dyed very young. The death of these two Princes. King Henry tooke as a punishment from God, for begetting them of his Brothers Wife.

Mary, the third childe and first daughter, begotten of Q. Katherine, was borne at Greenwich in Kent, the 18. of February, 1518. who out-liuing her yonger bro∣ther

King Edward the sixt, and being then Queene, and 36. yeares olde, married Phil∣lip King of Spaine, to the great dislike of many her louing Subiects, and small content to her selfe, as more at large in place conuenient will be shewed.

Issue by his second Wife.

Elizabeth, second daughter of Henry the eight, begotten of the Lady Anne Bollen, his second Wife, was borne at Greenwich, vpon Sunday, the seauenth of September, 1534. and was christned of Doctor Cranmer, Archbishop of Can∣terbury, &c. She succeeded her Sister Queene Mary, as Queene of England; and was for wisedome, vertue, piety and iustice, not onely the mirrour of her Sexe, but a patterne for Gouernment, to all the Princes of Christendome.

Another man-childe had Queene Anne, but still borne, the 29. of Febru∣ary, 1535. to the great greefe, both of the Father and Mother.

Issue by his third Wife.

Edward, the sixt and last childe of King Henry the eight, begotten of Iane Seymour, his third Wife; was borne at Hampton-Court, the 12. of October, 1537 being cut out of his Mothers wombe (as Iulius Caesar is saide to haue beene) Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolke, were his Godfathers, and Lady Mary his sister, his Godmother. Hee was first created Prince of Wales; and after the death of his Father, crowned King of England.

A base Sonne by his Concubine.

Henry Fitz-Roy, base sonne of King Henry the eight, begotten of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Iohn Blount Knight (then Lady Talboys) and borne in the Man∣nour of Blackmore in Essex, in the yeare 1518. who beeing eightene yeares of age, was created Earle of Nottingham, at the Kings Pallace of Bridewell; as in the Title of Nottingham is set foorth.

King EDVVARD the Sixt.

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EDward, the sixt of that Name, sonne of king Hen∣ry the eight, and Lady Iane Seymour (his third Wife) was borne at Hampton-Court, the 12. of October, 1537. And in the 29. yeare of his Fathers Reign, being cut out of his Mothers wombe, and sixe dayes after was created Prince of Wales; and after his Fathers death, was proclay∣med King, the 28. of Ianuary, 1547. be∣ing then nine yeares olde, and lying at Hatfield, the Nobility conducted him to London, and so to the Tower. During the time of his abode there, his Vnckle Edward Seymour, Earle of Hertford, was chosen and made Protectour, and chiefe Gouernor of the Kings person, vntill hee came to the age of eighteene yeares.

The sixt of February after, the Lord Protector knighted King Edward in the Tower of London; which done, King Edward presently after, knighted Sir Hen∣ry Hoblethorne, then Lord Maior of Lon∣don, and Sir Henry Portman, one of the Iudges of the Kings Bench. The 17 of February, the Lord Protector was created Duke of Somerset, and the 20. of Fe∣bruary, King Edward rode through London to Westminster, and was there crow∣ned.

In the life time of King Henry the eight a marriage was treated of, between Mary, late Queene of Scotland; Vnto which, a Parliament at Edenburgh had consented, in the yeare 1543. but that tooke not effect; for she was after marri∣ed to the Dolphin of France.

This Noble Prince dyed at Greenwich, the 6. of Iuly, 1553. being the seuenth yeare of his reigne, and the seuenteene yeare of his age, and was buried at West∣minster, the 9. of August after.

Queene Mary.

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MARIE, eldest daughter of K. Henry the eight, by Katherine his first Wife, was borne at Green∣wich, the 18. of February, 1518. and began her Reigne the 6. of Iuly, and was proclaymed Queene, the 17. day of the said Moneth, in the yeare 1553, In her young yeares shee was sued vnto, to be married to the then Emperour, the King of Scots, and the Duke of Orleance in France. But all these failing, at thirty sixe yeares of age, shee married Phillip, King of Spaine, to the great dislike of her Subiects, and small content of her selfe. She was crowned at Westminster, the last of September, in the yeare afore∣said, and dyed at S. Iames by Charing-Crosse, the 17. of Nouember, 1558. whē she had reigned fiue yeares, foure mo∣neths, and eleuen dayes, being 42. yeares olde, and was buried at Westminster, leauing no issue of her body.

Queene ELIZABETH.

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ELizabeth, second daughter of King Henry the eight, and Queene Anne Bollen his Wife; was borne at Greenwich, the seuenth of September, 1534. And by the great fa∣uour and grace of God, was aduanced to the Emperiall Throane, passing ma∣ny dangers of life, wherewith shee was oppressed (being a prisoner) during her sisters Reigne. Vpon the seuenteenth day of Nouember, 1558. she was proclaimed Queene of England, France and Ireland; and vpon the fifteenth of Ianuary after, was crowned at Westminster, by the Bi∣shop of Carlile. She was for wisedome, vertue, piety and iustice, not onely the Mirrour of her Sexe; but a Patterne for Gouernment, to all the Princes of Chri∣stendome.

Shee dyed at Richmond, the 24. of March, 1602. being 69. yeares, sixe mo∣neths, and 17. dayes olde, when she had Reigned 44. yeares, foure moneths, and seuen dayes.

Her body being brought to White-Hall, and her Statue made very like in her Parliament Robes, with a Crowne Imperiall on her head, and a Scepter in her hand, was on Thursday, the 20. of August, carried in a Chariot, drawne with foure horses couered with blacke Veluet, to S. Peters at Westminster; and after all ceremonies performed, was buried in a faire Toomb, made by commandement of King Iames.

King IAMES.

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I Ames, King of Scotland (onely sonne and heyre of Henry Stewart, late King of Scotland, and of Queene Mary his Wife, Dowager of France, and daugh∣ter and heyre of Iames the fift, King of Scotland) was borne in Edenburgh-Castle, the 19. of Iune, 1566. and was proclaimed King of England, France and Ireland, at London, the 24. of March, 1602. being then 36. yeares of age. And on the 25. of Iuly after, 1603. was crowned (with Queene Anne his Wife) at Westminster, by the hands of the most reuerend Father in God, Iohn whitift, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury; in the presence of the No∣bility and States of the Realme. Whose greatnes, with all honour, happinesse and peace, God now sanctifie and encrease in him and his issue, to all posterity. This potent & magnificent Monarch of Great-Britaine, married Anne, daughter of Fre∣dericke the second, King of Denmarke & Norway, and Sister to Christian the 4. now King of Den∣marke, 1618. She was borne at Scanderburgh, the 12. of December, 1574. and at the age of 16. years was married by Proxy, at Groningburg in Den∣mark, the 20. of August, 1590. vnto this most high and most mighty Prince, by whom she hath had most royall Issue, as followeth.

Their Issue.

Henry, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earle of Chester, was borne on Tues∣day, the 19. of February, 1593. and dyed without issue, at S. Iames House neere Charing-Crosse, and was buried at West minster very Prince-like, the 7. of December, 1612.

Robert Stewart second sonne, dyed very young.

Charles, Duke of Albany, Marquesse of Ormond, Earle of Ros, and Lord of Ardma∣noch, third sonne of Iames, King of Great-Britaine, was borne the 27. of February, 1600. and was created Duke of Yorke at White-Hall, on Tuesday the 6. of Ianuary, 1604. and af∣ter, on the 4. of Nouember, 1616. he was likewise at White-Hall created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester.

Lady Elizabeth, borne the 19. of August, 1596. was married to Fredericke, Elector Pa∣latine of the Rhyne, and hath issue, Henry Fredericke, and Charles Lewis.

Margaret, borne the 24. of December, 1598. and dyed in Scotland young.

Mary, borne in England, and dyed an Infant, and was buried at Westminster.

Sophia, borne at Greenwich, and dyed an Infant, and was buried at Westminster.