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PHilip 4. surnaming himselfe The Faire, King of Navarre, succee∣ded his Father, An. Dom. 1286. After that he had withdrawne his Ar∣my from Parpignan, hee was crowned at Rheims the sixt of January. He caused the Palace to be built at Paris: at that
time Edward, King of England, preten∣ding to lead his Army to the aide of the Towne of Acre, which the Saracens had now beleaguered, made some incursi∣ons upon the Sea-townes of Normandy, thinking to have surprised Rochell: whereupon ensued the second Warre which the French had against the Eng∣lish, (Heere the French Writers shew themselves most shamefully partiall and false, yet I am bound to follow my Au∣thors, they being of that Nation) who notwithstanding their alliance with the Emperour Adolphus, were valiantly re∣pulsed as well by Charles of Valois, where the Lord of St. John was taken; as by Robert of Artois, who gained the victory upon the fresh Army, which Edmund, brother to the King of Eng∣land, had led to Bayonne: yea, and the Count of Flanders, who declared him¦selfe on the English party, lost the bat∣taile at Furnes against the Count of Ar∣tois, who went to joyne forces with the French who besieged Lisle: and the
Lords of Mont Morency and Harcourt tooke the Towne of Dover. The Eng∣lish perceiving that, demanded a Truce, which was converted to a peace, by the Marriage of Madam Marguerite of France, Daughter of King Philip, with the King of England.
Afterwards the Emperour Albert and this King made an accord betweene them for the conservation of their king∣domes against all men. A while after, the Pope being much moved against the King, sent a Bull into France by the Arch-bishop of Narbona, interdicting the King, which Bull was burnt in the Court of the Palace. At that time the Flemings slew all the French Garrisons; whereupon the King being enraged, sent his Army to Courtrac, which was by them defeated. Whilest the King sent the Lords, Tarra a Colonian, and Nogareth with 2000. Horse into Italy, they put the Pope in such a terrour, that he dyed: The King also tooke such a re∣venge upon the Flemings neare to the
Mount of Poville, that hee overthrew 36000. of them. After that, the King having suppressed the Knights Templars, and causing James de Moulay or Beavieu, Generall of that Order, deceased at Fontainebleau, An. Dom. 1314, and lyes inhumed at St. Denis.
This King being perswaded to take revenge on a Bishop who had under∣hand strooke fire to kindle the tindar of contention betweene him and the Pope, he said: That it was more nob∣le in a Prince to save, than kill; to pardon, than to persecute; and to forgive and remit, rather than to revenge: for saith he, It must be of necessity that all things which angry men doe, must needs be full of blindnesse and necessity, because it is no easie matter for a man troubled with envy, to have the use of Reason; and whatsoever is without Reason; is without Art. It behooveth us therefore to take reason as our guide in all our actions, and to remove these passions of envy and revenge, for they
ought not to rest in a wise mans breast: Yet he was much affronted by Pope Bo∣niface, cōmanding him by his Bull to suc∣cour the Tartar, which the King, enga∣ged in many affaires, refusing to doe, the Bishop sent by the Pope, told him: That if the King would not obey the Pope, he would deprive him of his Realme. But afterward two Gentlemen imployed by the King, seized on the Pope in his Pa∣lace-Hall at Anagma, and carryed him to Rome, where he grew mad, and dyed Thirty five dayes after hee was taken, and had this Epitaph made by common Fame in his disgrace: Hee entred his Popedome like a Foxe, hee reigned like a Lyon, and dyed like a Dogge.