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THis Henry succeeded his father Robert, Anno Domini 1031. notwithstanding that his Mo∣ther Constance would have advanced her yonger sonne Robert to the Crowne by the favour of Baldwin, Count of Flanders, and Eude Count of Cham∣pagne.
But being come upon them by the ayde of the Duke of Normandy, he constrained his brother to content him∣selfe with the Dutchy of Burgundy. A while after Robert Duke of Normandy visiting the City of Jerusalem, dyed at Nice in Bithynia: by reason whereof Maugier, Arch-bishop of Rouen, and William Lord of Arques his brothers, maintaining themselves to be true Heires, raised great Warres against William the bastard-sonne of the said Duke, by him instituted to bee his Heire, which was a cause that the King sent the said William of Arques, accom∣panied with a great number of the No∣bility of Normandy and France to the Warres of Italy: from whence they were recalled by George Maniaces, Lievtenant for the Emperour of Greece to Poville and Calabria, to employ them for the recovery of Sicily, which the Saracens had now possessed upon promise of giving them a part. About the yeare 1042, Thibault Count of
Chartres, and Stephen Count of Troyes, fell into a quarrell with the King Henry, whereupon hee first fell upon Stephen, whom hee in a Battaile overthrew. Afterwards hee deprived Galleran, Count of Meulan (who tooke their part) of all his lands, and annexed them to the Crowne, and encouraged Godfrey, surnamed Martel, to make Warre upon Thibault whom hee tooke prisoner, and enforced him to surrender up the Towne of Tours for his ransom.
After this the King went to visite the Emperour Henry at Mets, where they confirmed the Alliance made betweene them, which hee broke by supporting Thibault against the King, who follow∣ing the example of his Father, resigned his Crowne to his eldest sonne Philip, Anno Dom. 1059, being aged 7. yeares, and caused him to bee crowned at Rheimes the 29. of May the same yeare: the yeare following King Henry decea∣sed, leaving the young King and ano∣ther sonne named Hugues, under the
tuition of Baldwin, Count of Flanders. He lyes at St. Denis.
This Kings reigne was somewhat troubled at the beginning to maintaine his Title to the Crowne, given him by his Father, but belonging of right to his eldest brother, which bred swelling thoughts betweene the brethren, the Mother maintaining the elders right. An Army was prepared to end the dif∣ference, whether the Fathers gift, or right of inheritance were a better Title; but the cause was tryed by the Sword, for Robert, whose right was then in question, content with tame patience to loose it, and so prevent the effusion of blood, by his milde disposition doing himselfe injustice. Whereupon agree∣ment being made betweene Henry and Robert, the Armies returned, and peace was betweene the brothers concluded. Afterward when hee following there∣in his Fathers example, had seene his son firmely seated in the Throne, Death dis∣covered the love of his Subjects, exprest
in their mourning for his decease, and was most honourably interred with the rest of his Predecessors, having all the funerall Rites and Ceremonies which belonged to so high a Monarch, to set forth the excellency of his Person. His Reigne begun with some bluste∣ring troubles, being opposed on every side, which soone ended, and his subjects felt the beames of favour shi∣ning most gently on them, when this Sunne of Majesty was ready to de∣scend and set, which gave them great cause of lamentation and sorrow for his departure out of this world.