Villani's Chronicle: Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni VillaniVillani, Giovanni
History
Villani's Chronicle: Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani
Villani, Giovanni
Florence (Italy) -- History
king of France in guise as if defeated came to Perpignan, as it
pleased God, King Philip of France passed from this life on the 6th
day of October, in the year of Christ 1285; and in Perpignan the queen
of Morea, his wife, with her company made great lamentation and
sorrow. And afterwards Philip and Charles, his sons, caused the body
to be brought to Paris, and he was buried at S. Denys with his
predecessors, with great honour. This enterprise against Aragon was
attended with greater loss of men and more cost in horses and money,
than the realm of France had almost ever suffered in times past; for
afterwards the king which succeeded the said Philip, and the greater
part of the barons, were always in debt and ill provided with money.
And after the death of King Philip of France, King Philip the Fair,
his eldest son, was made king of France, and crowned king in the city
of Rheims, with the Queen Joanna of Navarre, his wife, on the day of
the Epiphany next following. And note, that in one year or little
more, as it pleased God, there died four such great lords of
Christendom, as were Pope Martin, and the good Charles, king of Sicily
and of Apulia, and the valiant King Peter of Aragon, and the powerful
King Philip of France, of whom we have made mention. This King Philip
was a lord of a great heart, and in his life did high emprises; first,
when he went against the king of Spain, and then against the count of
Foix, and then against the king of Aragon, with greater forces than
ever his predecessor had gathered. We will leave now speaking of the
doings beyond the mountains, whereof we have said enough for this
time, and we will go back to speak of the doings of our Italy which
came to pass in the said time.
[Sidenote: 1285 A.D.]
[Sidenote: Purg. xxiv. 20-24.]
[Sidenote: 1286 A.D.]
[Sidenote: 1287 A.D.]
Sec. 106.--_Of the death of Pope Martin IV., and how Honorius de' Savelli
of Rome was made Pope._ Sec. 107.--_How a certain Genoese flotilla was
taken by the Pisans._ Sec. 108.--_How Count Guido of Montefeltro, lord of
Romagna, surrendered to the Church of Rome._ Sec. 109.--_How Pope
Honorius changed the habit of the Carmelite Friars._ Sec. 110.--_How the
bishop of Arezzo caused Poggio a Santa Cecilia, in the territory of
Siena, to rebel, and how it was recovered._ Sec. 111.--_How there was
great scarcity of victual in Italy._ Sec. 112.--_How M. Prezzivalle dal
Fiesco came into Tuscany as Imperial Vicar._ Sec. 113.--_How Pope
Honorius de' Savelli died._
Sec. 114.--_Of a notable thing which came to pass in Florence at this
time._
[Sidenote: 1287 A.D.]
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