they did. MarginaliaEx historia Helmoldi.Comming to the place at Hilgeshem, first thei required his Diademe, his purple, his ryng, and other ornamentes pertayning to the crowne, from him. The emperour demaundeth the cause, being then excommunicate & voyde of friends. They pretending agayn (I can not tel what) for selling of bishoprickes, Abbases, & other ecclesiasticall dignities for money: also alledging the popes pleasure, and of other princes. Then required he first of the bishop of Mentz (and likewise of the other. ij. whom he had preferred to their bishoprickes before) asking them in order, if he had receaued of them any peny for his promoting them to their dignities. Thys when they could not deny to be so: wel sayth he, and do you require me agayne with this? With diuers other wordes of exhortacion, admonishing them to remember theyr othe and allegiaunce to their prince. But the periured Prelates, neither reuerensing his maiestye, nor moued with his benefites, nor regarding their fidelitie, ceased not for this, but first plucked frō him (sitting in throne) hys crowne imperiall: then diuestured him, takyng frō him his purple and hys scepture. The good Emperour, being left desolate and in confusion, saith to them: Vide at deus, et iudicet, that is, let God see, and iudge. MarginaliaThe prelates set the sonne agaynst the father.Thus leauing him, they went to his sonne, to confirme hym in his kingdome, and caused him to driue his father out. MarginaliaA greatefull example of a good and thankfull duke.
A naughtie sonne of a good father.Who then being chased of his owne sonne (hauing but. ix persons about him) dyd flee by the dukedome of Limbrugh, where the Duke being then in hunting, perceyuing and hearing of him, made after to folow him. The emperour fearing no other but present death (for he had displaced the same Duke before out of his Dukedome) submitted himself, crauing of him pardō, & not reuengement. The Duke ful of compassion, & pitying hys state: not onely remitted all his displeasure, but also receaued him to his Castell. Moreouer, collelcting his soldiours & men of warre, brought him to Colen, and ther was wel receiued. His sonne hearing this, besieged the Citye of Colen. But the father by night escaping, came to Leodium: where resorted to him all such as were men of cōpassion, & of a constant hart. In so much that his power being strong inough, he was now able to pitch a field agaynst his enemies, and so did: desiring his frends, that if he had the victorye, they would spare his sonne. In fine (the battaile ioyned) the father had the victorye, the sonne was put to flyght: manye beyng slayne on both sides. MarginaliaEx Helmoldo, et Gotfrido Vterbiēsi.But shortlye after the battel renued agayne: the sonne preuayled, the father was ouercome, and taken. Who then being vtterly dispossessed of his kyngdome, was brought to þ^e exigent: that cōming to Spire, was fayne to craue of þ^e bishop ther (whom he had don much for before) to haue a preband in þ^e church: & for þ^t he had some skill of his booke, he desired to serue in our ladies quier. MarginaliaThe vnkindnes of a proud prelate.Yet could he not obtayne so much at his hād: who swore by our Lady, he should haue none ther. Marginalia1106.
The Emperour. v. yeres without buriall.Thus the woful Emperour (most vnkindly handled, and repulsed on euery side) came to Leodium, and there for sorrowe died, after he had raigned, 50. yeares: whose body Paschalis after his funerall, caused to be taken vp agayne, & to be brought to Shires, where it remayned. v. yeres vnburied. Hæc ex Helmoldo.

Marginalia1107.
Henricus Emperour.After the decease of thys Emperour Henricus the fourth: his sonne Henricus the fift, raygned the space of xx. yeres. Who comming to Rome to be crowned of the Pope, could not obtayne before he would fully assent to haue this ratified: þ^t no emperour should haue any thnig to do w^t the election of the Romane bishop, or with other bishoprickes. MarginaliaEx chronico Carionis. lib. 3.
The pope taken prisoner.Besides that (about the same time) suche a styrre was made in Rome by the said bishop: that if the Emperour had not defended hym selfe, with his owne handes, he had bene slayne. But as it happened, the emperour hauing the victory: amongest manye other Romaines (which were partlye slayne, partlye taken in thesame skirmish) he taketh also the Pope, and leadeth him out of the citie: where he indenteth with him vpō diuers condicions, both of his coronation, and of recoueryng agayn his right and title in the election of the Pope, and of other bishops: wherunto the pope assenting, agreed to all. So the Emperour (being crowned of Paschalis) returned agayne with the pope to Rome.

All the coudicions betwene the Emperour and the Pope (so long as the Emperour remayned at Rome) stoode firme and ratified. But as soone as the Emperour was returned agayne to Germany, forthwith the pope calling a Synode, not onelye reuoked all that he had agreed to before: but also excommunicated Henricus the Emperour, as he had done his father before, reprouing the former priuilegium for prauilegium. The Emperour returning frō Rome to Fraūce, there maried Mathild daughter to king Henry. Who then hearing what the pope had done (agreeued not a lytle) wyth all expedition marcheth to Rome, and putteth the pope to flight: and finally placeth an other in his stede. MarginaliaWar raysed vp by the pope, & his papistes.In þ^e meane time the bishops of Germany (the popes good friendes) slept not their busines, incensing the Saxons: all that they might against their Cesar: In so much that a great commotiō was stirred vp, and grew at lenghte to a pitched filde: which was fought in þ^e moneth of february, by the wood caled, Siula Catularia. An. M. Cxv.

MarginaliaPeace cōcluded betwene the Emperour and the pope.The emperour seing no end of these conflicts (vnles he woulde yelde to the pope) was fayne to geue ouer, and forgo his priueledge: falling to a cōpositiō, not to medle with matters perteining to the popes election, nor w^t inuesting, nor such other thinges belonging to the church, and church men. And thus, was the peace betwene them concluded and proclaymed, to no smal reioysing to both the armies, thē lying by Wormes, nere þ^e riuer of Rine.

MarginaliaBernardus the abbot.
Bernardine monkes came in.In the time of this Paschalis: liued Bernardus, caled Abbas Clarauallensis, An. M. Cviij. of whom sprange the Bernadine monkes.

MarginaliaThe citie of Worceter almost all consumed with fire.About what time, the citye of Worcester was consumed almost all with fier. An. M. Cviiij.

MarginaliaMathildis.
Example of the Lords iuste retribution, and iudgement.All this while Hēricus þ^e emperour had no issue (hauing to wyfe Mathildis, the daughter of Henricus. i. king of England) & that by the iust iudgment of God, as it may appeare. For as he hauing a father, persecuted him by þ^e popes setting on, cōtrary to þ^e part of a naturall sonne: so Gods prouidence did not suffer him to bee the father of any childe, naturally to loue him, or to succeede hym.

After the death of Paschalis, an. 1118. succeded pope Gelasius (chosen by the Cardinals) but w^tout the consent of þ^e emperour: wherupō rose no litle variance in Rome. MarginaliaTwo popes striuing together.And at length, an other Pope was set vp by the Emperour called Gregorious, viij. and Galasius driuen away into Fraunce, and there dyed. MarginaliaPope Calixtus the. ii.After whom came Calixtus the second (chosen likewise by a few cardinals, without the voice of the emperour) who cōming vp to Rome to enioy his seat, MarginaliaThe pope excōmunicateth the emperour.first sent his legat into Germany, to excōmunicate the emperour Henricus: who thē hauing diuers conflictes with his fellowe pope Gregorious, at lēgth draue him out of Rome. At this time by this occasion, great disputaciō and cōtrouersie was betwene the Emperours and the popes court, whether of thē in dignitie should excell the other: whereof reasons and arguments on both sides were alledged, as in the verses here following are comprehended.

¶ Allegatio Imperatoris contra papam.  

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An allegation of the Emperor against the Pope

Foxe text Latin

Cæsar lex viua ... cuncta sibi.

Translation

John Wade, University of Sheffield

Caesar stands as the living law commanding kings as emperor, and under the living law are all rights given. That law punishes, it frees and itself binds. He is the founder of the law and must not be held by the law, but it has pleased him to be held under the law willingly. Whatever has pleased him will be like justice. God who binds and frees has brought him forth to the world; the divine power has divided the kingdom with him; it has given the stars to the celestial deities and all the rest to him.

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Cæsar lex viua stat regibus imperatiua,
Legeq; sub viua sunt omnia iura datiua.
Lex ea Castigat, soluit et ipsa ligat.
Conditor est legis neq; debet lege teneri,
Sed sibi complacuit sub lege libenter haberi.
Quicquid ei placuit iuris adinstar erit.
Qui ligat ac soluit deus ipsum protulit orbi,
Diuisit regnum diuina potenia secum