of Rome thys the autoritie of the imperiall iurisdiction lost: MarginaliaNot without good cause desired they to nosell the people in ignorance.most cruelly and wickedly abusing the same, to the destruction both of the Empyre, vndoyng of the cōmon wealth, and vtter subuersion of the churche of God: yet could they not be able to bring the same to passe in those darke and shadowed tymes of peruerse doctrine and errours of the people, and most miserable seruitude of ciuil magistrates.

MarginaliaEuery king & prince in their seuerall kingdome had also till that tyme the prerogatiue of election.The same and lyke priuilege also in the election of theyr bishops and prelates, and disposing of ecclesiasticall offices, as þ^e Emperour of Rome had: Euery prince and kyng in theyr seuerall dominions had þ^e lyke. MarginaliaHispane had the same.For, by þ^e decree of the councel of Toletane, whych in the. 25. canō & 63. distinction is mencioned: the autoritie of creating & chusing bishops & prelates in Hispane, was in þ^e power of þ^e kyng of Hispane. MarginaliaFraūce had the electiō.The lyke also, by the histories of Clodoueus, Charolus Magnus, Ludouicus nonus, Philippus Augustus, Philippus pulcher, Charolous. 5. Charolus. 6. and Charolus. 7. kyngs of Fraunce, is apparent and well knowen: that all these kynges ahd the chiefe charge and gouernment of the French church, and not the bishops of Rome.

MarginaliaEnglād had the electiō.And by our English histories also you haue herd, it is manifest: that the authoritie of chusing ecclesiastical ministers and bishops, was alwayes in þ^e kings of England, tyll the raygne of king Henry the first: who by the labour and procurement of Anselmus bishop of Caunt. was depriued and put from the same.

MarginaliaGermanie had the election.Also, the princes of Germanye and Electours of the Emperour, tyll the tyme of Henry the. 5. had all (euerye prince seuerally in hys own dition & prouince) the same iurisdiction and prerogatiue: to geue and dispose ecclesiasticall functions to theyr prelats at theyr pleasure: and after þ^t it appertayned to the people & prelates together. And how in the raygne of Fridericke, the Prelates gat vnto them selues alone, thys Imminuitie: Iohannes Auentinus in hys. 7. booke of the Annales of the Boiores, doth describe.

MarginaliaSicilia had the electiō.Also it is probable, that the kinges of Sicilia had the same facultie in geuyng and disposing theyr ecclesiasticall promotions and charge of churches. Andreas de Istmia ad. 1. constit. Neap. nu. 12. And that because Friderik defēded him against the tyranny of the bishop of Rome, therefore as Fazellus sayeth, he was excommunicated of Honorius. But that Platina and Blondus alledge other causes wherefore he was excommunicate of Honorius, I am not ignorant: Howebeit, he that wyll compare their writinges with others that write more indifferently betwene Honorius and him: shall easely fynde, that they more sought the fauour of the Romayne Byshops, then to wryte a veritye. But now agayne to the history of Fridericke.

MarginaliaThe death of Con. the wife of Friderick.Nicholaus Cisnerus affirmeth, that whylest Fridericke the Emperour was in Sicilia, hys wyfe Constantia dyed at Catrana or Catana. In the meane time, the Christians whych with a great nauie sayled into Egipt and tooke the City Heliopolis, commonly called Damatia, and longe agoe named Pelucinum, beinge in good hope to haue dryuen Saultanos the Sowdan oute of Egipt: MarginaliaA greate ouer throw of the Christians in Egypt.had a greate & maruelous ouerthrow, by the conuaying of the water of the flud Nilus (which then ouerflowed) into theyr Campe: and were fayne to accord an vnprofitable truce with þ^e Sowldan for certayne yeres, and to deliuer the City agayne: and so departing out of Egipt, were fayne to come to Acones and Tirus, to the no small detriment and losse of the Christian armye. Wherupon, kyng Iohn surnamed Brēnus (being kyng of Ierusalem, ariued in Italie, and prayed ayde of the Emperour agaynst hys enemies in whom he had great hope to fynde remedy of the euils and calamities before declared: and from thence he went to Rome to the pope, declaryng vnto hym the great discomfit and ouerthrowpast, as also the present perill and calamitie that they were in, desiryng also hys ayde therein. MarginaliaFriderick and the pope made frendes.By whose meanes as Cisnerus sayth, the Emperour was reconciled agayne to the Pope, and made frendes together: to whome also kyng Iohn gaue Ioell hys daughter in mariage, whych came of the daughter of Conradus K. of Ierusalem, and Marques of Mount Ferrat: wyth whom he had for dowry, the inheritaunce of the kyngdome of Ierusalem, as right heyre thereunto by her mother. By whom also, he after obtayned the kyngdomes of Naples and Sicel: and promised that wyth as much expedient speede as he might, he would prepare a power for the recouery agayn of Ierusalem, and be thear himselfe in proper person: whych thyng to do, for that vpon diuers occasions he deferred, whereof some thinke one, some an other: MarginaliaHonorius the pope dieth before he put his practise in vre against Friderick.Honorius, vnto whom he was lately reconsiled, purposed to haue made agaynste hym some great and secrete attempt, had he not bene by death before preuented, vpon whom were made these verses.

O pater Honori, multorum nate dolori,
Est tibi decori, viuere vade mori.

MarginaliaGregorius. 9. as great an enemie to Frid. as Honorius.After whom succeded Gregorius the. 9. as great an enemy to Friderick, as was Honorius: which Gregory, came of þ^e rase whom þ^e Emperour (as before ye heard) condemned of treason whych they wrowghte against hym. Thys Gregory was scarcely setled in his papacy, when that he threatned hym and that greatlye wyth excommunication, vnles he would prepare hymselfe into Asia, accordyng to hys promise as ye hearde before to kyng Iohn. And what the cause was, why the Pope so hastened the iourney of Fridericke into Asia, you shall heare hereafter: In effect, he could not wel bryng that to passe, whych in hys mischeuous mynde he had deuised, vnlesse the emperour were farder frō him. MarginaliaFride refuseth to goo in to Asia at the popes bidding the pope is angry.Notwythstāding, Friderick it should seme smelling a rat, or mystrusting somwhat (as well he myght) alledged diuers causes and lets, as latelye and truly he dyd to Honorius.

MarginaliaThe cause of the staye of the Emperours Iorneie into Asia.Fazellus a Sicilian wryter sayth, that the speciall cause of the emperours staye was: for the othe of truce and peace during certayne yeares, whyche was made betwene the Saracens and Christians as you heard, whych tyme was not yet expired.

The same also Fazellus, writeth thus of king Ihon of Ierusalem: that when his daughter was brought to Rome, the Emperour and the Pope were reconciled togoether. And being called vp to Rome to celebrate þ^e mariage, Pope Gregory (as the maner of those proud prelates is) offered hys ryghte foote vnto the Emperour to kisse. But þ^e Emperour not stoupinge so low, scarsly w^t his lip, touched the vpper part of his knee and would not kisse his foote: which thing, þ^e pope tooke in very euil part and was therewith meruelously offended. MarginaliaThe pope dissembleth hys grudge.But for that no oportunitie at that time serued to reuenge his conceaued grudge and old malice, he dissimuled þ^e same as he might for that tyme, thinking to recompence it at the full as tyme would serue, and fall out therefore.

After thys, it fortuned that the emperour hearyng how the Christians were oppressed by the Sowldan in Syria, and that from Arsacida there came a great power agaynst the Christen princes: he made the more hast, and was wyth more desire incouraged to set forward hys iourney into Asia. MarginaliaThe preparation of the viage of Frid. to Ierusalem and stay therof.Wherfore, assemblyng the Nobilitie of the empyre at Rauēna and Cremona: he gaue in commaundement to Henrye hys sonne (whom not long before he caused to be created Ceasar) þ^t he shoulde perswade the nobles & princes of the empire: that they all, would be ready to put to theyr helpyng handes, in furthering thys hys iourney & enterprice. Thus writeth Fazellus: howbeit, some other affirme that these things were done in the tyme of Honorius. But howe so euer that matter is, thys thyng is manifest: that Fridericke