and their Councils abridged. 313 **********44Wta;,aeigt*g, CHAP. XI. The.lrogrefs of Counfis till Leo 9th. ofecially in Italy, France and Germany, and their Behaviour. ¢,ì.CCCI. ¡1 DoEarl of Páris, having llfurped theKingdom in the Mi- k,/ nority of Charles the fimple the right Heir; FulaBifhop of Rheims calleth a Synod and depofeth him, and fets upCharles (fuch Power had Prelates). Some fay the French. Chofe Odo by Arnulphus's Confent; and fome fay, that he dying, deflred that Charles might have Pollen-ion. This was Anno 892. ¢. 2. The great Devafiations made by the Normans,burning Cities,Chur- ches,Monafteries; and at Taft forcingCon fent for a Habitation inNeuflria, l pafs over; and Petavius out of fome Writers of their own will tell you, that when Chartrefs was befieged by them, the Virgin Marys fmock, which King Charles Calvas had brought thither from Befanfon, being car- ried, Gait them into fogreat aTerror, that they fled awayall in Confufion. Where they had this Smock, and how many Hundred Years after the Virgin Marys death it was found, andhow they knew it to behers,and how it was fo tong kept, and where, and why it did not many Miracles fooner, till above 9oó Years after Chrift, are Queflions which I cannot An -, fwer. §.3. Italy and Francewere all this while flll'd withCivil Wars. Wido and his Son Lambert being dead, Berengarius got Pofl'etfion of Italy, whom Lewis after overcame, and was made Emperor at Ronk, Crowned by the Pope: But three years after, taken by Berengarius, was Depofed, and had his Eyes put out. 'Yet after this Berengarius was cut oft, and Lewisreftored and Anointed by Pope yohn to. Rodulphus King of Burgure- dy was fet up by fome Italian Noblesagainft Berengarius, and overthrow- ing his Army, was called King of Italy. Berengarius was kil'd by Treachery : Rodulphus was foon Depofed, and the Italians made Hugo Earl of ProvenceKing. At lad 'he joyned his Son Lotharius with him': The younger Berengarius prevaileth againft him, drivethhim to Provence.; and is made King: Intending to marry his Son Adalbertus to Adaleidis the Widdow of Lotharius; the invited Otho King of Germany into Italy and marryed him, vvho after is made the fir(' Germane Emperor;: Of all whichmore aftetin the particular Order and place. See Perm). lib. 8. c.1 3. ¢. 4. CCCII. Anno. 893, Formofus had a Roman Council, to Confult of force Relief of the Ruined Countries, in vain. For -now men Secular. and Ecclefiatlical, Confounded all byflriving for Rule. §. 5. CCCIII. Anno 895. ACouncil at Tribur in Germany for Church 5 f Refer-
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