Volume 1

The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri].

Louis Moréri

Date:: 1701

Credit: The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Comte in i66B. Which Succeifes were terminated by the Peace of Aix la Cbapelle, May 2. the Year following. After this, he turn’d his thoughts to the improvement of his Kingdom, and the promoting of Arts and Sciences. In 11^72, i:e furprized £«r(?^e by his Conqueffs upon the D«rc^, a great part of whofe Domi¬ nions he over-run on a fudden. In i^73> he took Maejhicht, at the Siege of vvliich he commanded in Perlbn. In 1674, he took Befancon, Dole, and tlic reft of the Franche Comte. And Aug. 10. tlie lame Year, was fought the Battel of Senef-, whereof the French had no great caufe to boaft, and the Dutch lefs. In i^7$> he took Limburg, and fome other Places; Conde and Bouchain in i6’j6, and at the beginning of 1^77, made himfelf Mailer of K<i- lenc’emes, Cambray and St- Omer : And the Duke of Orleans gain¬ ed the Battel of Mount Cajfel. The Inhabitants of Mejjina rebel¬ ling againft their Sovereign, embraced the Proteflion of King Lems, but he abandon’d them to the Refentment of the Spa¬ niards. About this time his Fleet beat the Dutch in the Fare of Meffina, where they loft their Admiral de Ruyter. At the begin¬ ning of 1(578, tlie King took Tpres; and a Peace was concluded at Kimeguen with the Hollanders, Aug. 10. and with the Spaniards, 17. following. Notwithftanding of which, he laid Siege to, and made himfelf Mafter of Luxemburg. Some time after lie re¬ voked the Edift of in i53s, granted by Henry the Great, and treated the Hugonots with great Severity. He declared War againft the Emperor, and about the latter end of ii588, fent the Dauphin to befiege Philipsburg, vvliich he took, whilft Boufflers carried Spier, Mayence, Creufenack, Baccarach, Heydelberg, and ravaged and wafted the Country as far as Hailbron, before the Germans were ready to make head againft him. This Prince has taken for Device the Sun, with this Motto, Nec plurtbm iwp'ar. Sujpcit hie terns. Omnibus Vnw. He had by Queen Mary-Therefe of Aufiria, who died in 158?, Lewis, the prefent Dauphin-, and two Princes, and three Princefies, that died young. His Natural Cliildren by Valiere, Dutchefs of Vaujeur, are, Lewis Duke of Vermandois, Admiral, and General Superintendant of the Com¬ merce and Navigation of France; Lewis Auguji Duke of Maine, Lewis Alexander Count of Vexin, Mary Anne, Lady of Blois, and Dutchefs of Vaujeur, and Louis Frances, Lady of Nantes and Tours. But now Fortune began to look with no favourable afpeft upon France, for in 1694, the Dauphin, who commanded the French Army in the Netherlands, was almoft cooped up all the Summer by the King of England, in his Camp at Vignemont, and the Con¬ federates were like to have got into French Flanders, and carry all before tliem. They took Huy. Dkpe and Havre de Grace were feverely Bombarded by the Englijl), while, to the mortification of King Lewis, his Fleet durft not look out of Thoulon for fear of Admiral Rujfel, who vyas now in the Streights -, neither could he prevail by any means to get the Chapter of Liege to chufc the Cardinal de Bouillon Prince and Bifliop of that Country, in op- pofition to Prince Clement of Bavaria, Bifliop of Cologn, who carried the Eleftion. The Year 1^95, was ftill more unfortu¬ nate to him, when he loft Cazal in Italy, the almoft impregnable Fortrefs of Namur in the Netherlands, had St. Malo Bombarded by the Englifl) Fleet, could do nothing on the Rhine, nor procure a Peace any where ; but tho’ in the Year \6^6, he utterly fail¬ ed in his defign of Invading England, had Calais, and St. Martins on the Ifle of Rhe'e, Bombarded by the EngliJJ), could do no good in Germany nor Flanders againft the Confederates, yet he had the addrefs to draw the Duke of Savoy to make a feparate Peace with him, and to obtain a Neutrality on that fide of Italy. And the Year following, tho’ he could not get the Prince of Conti made King of Poland, yet he obtained a General Peace with the Confederates, but was obliged to make large Conceffions to them, not only by a furrender of all that he had taken during the War, but of many other Places and Countries that had been long in the pofteftion of France, as the Countries of Lorrain and Orange, the Cities of Luxemburg, Friburg, Brifac, &c. and to own the Prince of Orange to be King of England; with whom particularly, as aifo with other Princes and States, he was at War with, he has fince lived in good Amity and Correfpondence. Kings of Germany of the Nam of LEWIS. LEWIS I. furnamed The Pious, or The Elder, King of Ger¬ many, was the third Son of Lewis the Meeli, and Mother of the Emperor Lothaire, and Pepin King of Aquitain. He was made King of Bav,iria in the General Affembly his Father held in 817, at Aix la Chapelle. He took his Father’s Part againft his Bro¬ thers, tho’ afterwards he fided with them; and in 839, in a Journey he took to Frankfort, he alienated the Minds of the Saxons, Thuringians, and the Inhabitants of the Eaftern Franco¬ nia, from their Allegiance to his Father. Lewis, his Father, di¬ ed in his Attempt of reducing thefe People to their Obedience. After the Death of Lewis the Meekj Lewis of Germany and Charles the Bald, gained the famous Battel of Fontenay, over the Emperor Lothaire, their Brother, in 84 r, but at laft came to an Agree¬ ment 5 and, at an Affembly at Verdun, (hared their Father’s Do¬ minions amongft them in 843. l ewis had fof his (hare the Coun¬ try beyond the Rhine, with the Bifhopricks of Ment^,, Worms and Spier. In 858, at the SoIIicitation of fome difeontented People, he returned to France, but the Year following he was glad to setaxnto Germany-, add in 85o, beingaffcmbled near Coblent\, with Charles the Bald, and Lotharius King 6f Lorrain, they fwore toobferve an inviolable Peace. In the mean time Lewis en¬ larged the Bounds of his Dominions, and made himfelf Formi¬ dable to all his Neighbours. He was aftive, generous, valiant and liber,il, a zealous Obferver of Juftice and Religion, an equi¬ table Diftributer of Employments and Olfices, and, in a word, one that inlieritcd more of the good Qualicies of Charles the ’ Great, than any other Prince of that Family. He claimed the Empire after the Death of his Nephew, Lewis II. but the Pope crowned Charles the Bald. Lewis, tho’ he was 70 Years of Age, made hereupon a powerful Irruption into Neujhia, but as he was at Franefort, Death put an end to his Life and Defigr.s at once, Aug.iZ.^jS, having reigned 59 Years, and lived 70. Hwrm la' Chronique de S. Gal. de Fulds, <iyyc. LEWIS II. King of Germany, furnamed The Tcunger, fuc- ceeded his Father Lew'fj I. Charles the Bald, his Uncle, was refo!- ved to difpoffefs him of his Dominions. Lewis, to prevent his Attempts, fent Ambaffadors to reprefent to him the Treaty made with his Father, and ftievv him, that it had not been vio¬ lated in any point; Charles feemed to give ear to thefe Informa-- tiens, and granted a time of Truce, during which, he fwore he would not attack him, but for all that continued his march, de- figning to furprize him in his Camp at Andernac, and to put out his Eyes, The Eleftor of Cologne endeavoured to divert him from' this Perfidioufnefs, but in vain, therefore he fent private word to' Lewis what he was to expeft, who putting himfelf ir\fo a pofture of Fighting, defeated Charles his Army, Oliob.8. 8j6. This Viftory fecured to the three Sons of Lewis the Elder their Domi¬ nions. He, of whom vve now fpeak, laid claim to the Crown of prance, to which he was called by the death of Lewis the Stam¬ merer but being informed at Metx^ of the Sicknefs of Carloman, bis Eldeft Brother, who wasfeized with a Palfey in 88o,he hailed into Bavaria, to prevent his leaving the Kingdom to Arnulphus, his Natural Son. After which, he returned into France, but effefted nothing in order to his Defign, fave only that he over¬ threw 8 or 900 Normans-, and having fettled Matters with Lewis and Carloman, and joined his Forces with theirs, they de¬ feated Hugo, Ballard of Vardrade. Lewis died at Franefort, Jan. 20. 882. as he was Levying an Army to fight the Normans. An¬ nals of S.Bertin. Regino. Haymt. Mexeray, &c. Kings of Hungary and Poland of the Name ^/LEWIS. LEWIS of Anjou the Ift, of the Name, King of Hungary and Poland, furnamed The Great, was the Son of Charles II, who was alfo called Charobert, Son of Charles Martel, King of Hungary, the Son of Charles If. called The Lame, King of Naples and Sicily, Earl of Provence, ^c. Dcfccnded from Charles I. Earl of Anjou, and Brother of St. Lewis. Charobert had him by his third Wife Elizabeth, Daughter of Ladiflaus, furnamed Lotk, King of Poland, and Sifter of Cafimir the Great. He was born March $. 1^26, fucceeded his Father in 1342, and was Crowned at Alba Rega¬ in. He expelled the Jbews out of Hungary, and waged fev^ Wars, which he carried on and concluded fucccufully, vix. Apinft the Tranfilvanians, Tartars, Croats, and the Waiwods of Walachia. He fent Succours to Cafimir, King of Poland, his Un¬ cle, againft John King of Bohemia, who befieged Cracovia. This . King had a Brother called Andrew, who married his Coufin Joan, Queen of Haples, and was ftrangled. Sept. 18. 1345, Lewis'was engaged in a War againft the Venetians, when he heard of the death of his Brother, and to avenge his Blood marched into Ita¬ ly, where he caufed Charles of Duras, and fome others, to be put to death, and took the City of Naples, when Queen Joan had made her efcape to Provence. Some time after, he returned again to Italy, and made Peace With the Queen, by the Mediation of Pope Clement VI. He made War alfo u]^n the Venetians for Dalmatia, in 1357, and after the death of his Uncle Cafimir, King of Poland, in 1370, he was admitted to the Crown of Po¬ land. At his coming to that Crown, he oppofed the Lithuanians, and fome of the Great Lords of Poland, who flood out in Rebel¬ lion againft him. Pope Innocent VI. made him Great Gonfalonier, or General of the Church, and the Emperor Charles IV. declared him Vicar, or Lord Lieutenant of the Empire. Lewis was always a viftorious Prince, he died at Tirnavta in Sept. 1382, being aged $6 Years, 6 Months, and 6 Days, and having Reigned 40 Years, Michow lib. 4. Cromer, lib. 4. Hift. Bonfnm and Turofui Pol. Hijf. Hung. LEWIS II. called The Tounger, King of Hungary and Bohe-- mla, was the Son of Ladiflaus VI. and of Anne of Foix. He fuc¬ ceeded his Father, when he was but 11 or 12 Years of Age, in I Si5. Solyman, Emperor of the Turks, took Belgrade from him^ ,on the Day of the Beheading of St. John the Baptijl, and on the fame Day, in 1^26, he gained the famous Battel of Mohatx., at which, this young Prince loft his Life in a Marfli. Ijlhuanf lib. ff. Rerum Hungar. Paul. Jov. in Elog, Kings and Princes of jQtufalQvn, Naples, Sicily, of the Name of t,EW IS. LEWIS of France, the Ift Of the Name, Duke of Anjog, King of Jerufalem, Naples, and Sicily, Earl of Provence, • was the lb:oad Son of King John, and of Bona of Luxemburg, and Bfothi^ %

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