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houses, plante vineyardes, shall hedge about his orchardes, shall procreate children: and after the xij. yeare shall appeare the sworde of the Christians, whiche shall put the Turke to flight euery where.MarginaliaThe expositiō of the Turkes prophecie.They which
CloseBartolomeo Georgevits, De origine imperii Turcorum as excerpted in Theodore Bibliander, Machumetis saracenorum prinpipis…Alcoran (Basel, 1550), III, pp. 166-71.
MarginaliaAn other exposition.Wherfore it may rather seme probable that by the vij. yeare and xij. yeare of the Turkes, this to be þe meanyng: that if the vij. of the Ottomā Turkes do scape the sword of the Christians, they shall continue, builde and plante, &c. vntill the xij. Turke, whiche is this Solimannus, and then after that shall rise the Christiās sword, which shall put thē to flight & vanquish thē in all quarters. And thys exposition may seeme to accorde with þe place of Genesis, wherin is written, of Ismael that he had xij. sonnes, & no moe: MarginaliaGen. 25.So that thys Solymannus being þe xij. Turke after Ottomānus, may (by þe grace of Christ) be þe last, whom we heard credably to be reported, at the printing hereof, to be dead. But how soeuer this prophesie is to be taken, it appeareth by their owne oracles, that at length they shall be ouercome by the Christians.
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CloseThe following table, which lists events in Near Eastern history from the death of Muhammed in AD 632 until the fall of Acre, the last Crusader stronghold in the Holy Land, in 1291. This table is Foxe's own composition. When it is dealing with history of the Crusades and the Crusader kingdoms it is fairly reliable, but otherwise it can be very inaccurate; in fact, some of the events and people it describes are fictitious.
[Back to Top]| MarginaliaThe Saracens begynne their reigne. AN. 632. Began þe kyngdome of þe Sara- cens or Arabians after the death of Ma- humet þe first ryngleader of that mischief: whiche Saracens reignyng in Babylon o- uer Persia and Asia, continued about. | 198. yeares. |
An. 667.
CloseJerusalem actually fell to the Moslems in AD 638; the conquest of Persia was complete in 636. These Saracens after they had subdued Or misda kyng of Persia, set vp to them selues a new kyngdome callyng their chief prince Calipha, which signifieth a generall Lord: and vnder him Seriphes, that is, an vnder prince: And agayne vnder hym their Sul- dane, whiche is, a ruler or captaine: vnder the whiche Suldanes, all their prouinces were diuided. And thus ruled they the space aboue sayd of. | 198. yeares. |
| MarginaliaThe Ægyptian Saracens or Sultanes. An.703.
CloseThe conquest of Egypt occurred in AD 641. Cairo did not become the capital until AD 972. subiectiō vnder þe Romanes, called for helpe of the Saracen, Calipha: and so castyng of the Romanes, submitted them selues to the law of þe Saracēs, & had also their Calipha, & their Babylō called Cayrus, where their Ca lipha cōtinued vnto Saraco or Syracinus. | 447.yeares.
CloseIf one includes the Fatimid caliphs, than these caliphs ruled Egypt for 530 years from AD 641 until AD 1171.. |
An.810.
CloseThe following sequence of events is fictitious. chiefe Sultan of Persia, beyng at variaunce with Imbrael þe Sultan of Babylon, sēt for þe ayde of þe Turkes, out of Scythia: by whō, when he had got the victory agaynst the Ba- bylonians, the sayd Turkes shortlye after, conquered the Persians and subdued theyr countrey within the space of. | 20. yeares. |
| MarginaliaThe Saracens kyngdome ceaseth. An. 830.
CloseThe following sequence of events is fictitious. of Asia by the Turkes, wandered about A- phricke, Spayne, and Italie, and were in diuers places dipersed, and so remayne. | |
| MarginaliaThe Turkes kyngdome begynneth. An. 830.
CloseVarious Turkish kingdoms (notably the Uighars and the Ghazanavids) were established in the seventh to the tenth centuries, but this is probably a reference to the domination of the Seljuk Turks which began in the late tenth century. sed the Saracens out of Asia, beganne to |
reigne in Asia, in Persia, & in Arabia, and there reigned without interruptiō, till þe cō ming of the Tartarians, the space of. | 192. yeares. |
An. 1009.
CloseThe Seljuk Turks conquered Jerusalem in 1075. Hierusalem frō the Saracens: whiche Citie the Sultan of Ægypte wanne agayne from the Turkes shortly after, and possessed the same till the commyng of Gotfridus. | |
An. 1051.
CloseThis entry is fictitious. In fact, the Seljuk Turks and the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt were bitter rivals. called Zaduke, to reigne in Asia, and ioyned league with Calipha of Ægypte, and there reigned till the conquest of Gotfridus and the Christians, the space of. | 46. yeares. |
An. 1078.
CloseSüleyman ibn Kutalmish was the Seljuk ruler of the sultanate of Rûm in Anatolia from 1077-1086. He was a kinsman (but not the nephew) of Alp Arslan, the second Seljuk sultan. lem þe Turkish king in Asia, otherwise called Turquinia, subdued Cappadocia, whiche hath continued now since, the space of. | 500. yeares. |
An 1099. Gotfridus Bulion, Duke of Lo- tharyng a Christē prince, takyng his viage into Asia, with 700000. christē souldiours, first got þe Citie of Nicea agaynst þe Sultan of the Turkes: then Lycaonia, Cilicia, Sy- ria, afterward Mesopotamia, and Coma- gena, then Antiochia. an. 1098: and the next yeare recouered Hierusalem, being thē in the handes of the Saracens, whiche they a litle before had wōne from the Turkes, as is aforesayd. After this Gotfridus succeded viij. Christian kyngs, whiche kept the kyng- dome of Hierusalem and Asia both frō the Turkes and Saracens the space of. | 88. yeares. |
An. 1100.
CloseAfter the death of Süleyman ibn Kutalmish in 1086, the Armenians overran the sultanate of Rûm. ple of Armenia the greater, vanquished the Turkes out of þe kyngdome of Persia, after they had cut their kyng in peeces. Wherby þe Turkes flying to Cappadocia, there remai- ned vnder Solymā, and ioyned them selues to þe Suldan of Ægypt, & waxed thē strong in Asia minor, called now Turquinia. | |
An. 1170. Whē Almericus the vij. kyng of Hierusalē after Gotfridus, had ouercome þe Calipha or Sultane of Ægypt, the Sultane beyng ouercome called for the helpe of Sara con the Sultan of Syria. This Saracon af- ter
CloseSalah al-Din (or Saladin) was the nephew of Shirkuh, a commander of Nur ad-Din, the ruler of Syria. In 1171, Shirkuh and Salah al-Din overthrew the last Fatimid caliph of Egypt. gypt, turned his power agaynst the Sultan of Ægypte, and vanquishyng him, tooke to hym selfe the kyngdome of Ægypt: Which kyngdome hee with his posteritie did holde till the commyng of the Tartarians and the Mamaluches about the space of. | 88. yeares. |
An. 1187. Saladinus þe nephew of Saracon þe Sultan of Ægypt, perceauing þe dissension amonge the Christian states of Palestina, got Antioche, where he slue Raymunndus the prince with his owne hādes
CloseShirkuh had slain Raymond of Poiters, prince of Antioch, in 1149. Tiberias: From thence went to Accon, where he tooke Guido king of Hierusalem and Maister of the Templares, prisoners: for whose raūsome the Turke had Ascalon yelded vp to hym of the Christians. That done, he subdued Hierusalem, whiche had bene inthe handes of þe Christians before, the space of. | 88. yeares. |
An. 1189.
CloseThe events described in this entry took place in 1189-92.. Frēch kyng, Richrad king of Englād made their viage into Asia, where Friderike wash ing in a ryuer at Cilicia, dyed. In this viage at the siege of Accam, Saladinus wāne the |