The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation Volume I Part 28

XVII.

G.o.dschalcus.

1457 Moritur.

XVIII.

Olaus Rogwaldi F.

1458 Praedicti G.o.dschalchi ex sorore nepos, vterque Noruagus, eligitur.

1497 Moritur.

XIX.

G.o.dschalcus.

De mortus Olai nepos ex fratre, et ille Noruagus, eligitur eodem anno quo patruus decessit.

1500 Cathedram adit, ac per totos 20. annos multos ex subditis duriter exercuisse fertur.

Anno 1520. c.u.m inter pocula et voluptates conuiuales versaretur audiretque obijsse Ionam Sigismundum, quem c.u.m vxore et liberis multos annos crudelissime vexauerat, in subitum morb.u.m repente incidit, et sic paul post, eam, qua in tota vita in miseros subditos vsus est vim c.u.m miserabili morte commutauit.

XX.

Ionas Araesonius.

1525 Cathedram adit: etiam hic papisticarum superst.i.tionum vltimus et acerrimus a.s.sertor. Qui, c.u.m Gyssero et Martino episcopus Schalhotiae acriter resisteret, a pientiss. Rege Christiano 1548 tertio iubetur sub poena exilij protinus in Daniam aduentare.

1550 Sed hoc neglecto, captum Martinum Schalholtiae Episcopum custodiae mandauit. Tandem et ipse a viro quodam magni nominis, quem prius vt fertur, lacessiuerat, captus, ac Schalholtiam adductus, ibidem c.u.m filijs duobus, authoritate regij praefecti, capitis 1551 supplicio affectus est. In cuius vltionem, non mult post praefectus ille regius, c.u.m socijs aliquot, a quibusdam sicarijs, decollatorum olim famulis, nefarie occisus est.

XXI.

Olaus Bialterus.

1552 Abit patria.

1553 Cathderam adit.

Hic primus sincerioris doctrinae apud Holenses amorem in multorum animis, etiam adhuc praedecessoris sui collega, accendit: Deinde eandem doctrinam Episcopus apertius docuit et propugnauit.

1568 Moritur.

XXII.

Gudbrandus Thorlacius.

Ille non mod suae aetatis, sed et posterntatis ornamentum. Qui praeterquam quod inchoatum opus a praedecessore Olao sibi relictum ducente S. S. optime ad eam, quam dedit Deus perfectionem, deduxit, (dico labores et diligentiam in a.s.serenda veritate Euangelica, et papisticis superst.i.tionibus abrogandis) etiam in hac patria sua officinam Typographicam primus Islandorum aperuit. Cui idcirco patria inter libros complures in linguam vernaculam translatos, etiam sacrosancta Biblia, elegantissimis typis Islandica lingua in officna ipsius excusa, in aeternum debebit.

Hic inquam Episcopus praesens, officium suscepturus.

1570 Abijt.

1571 Redit Cathedram Holensem ingreditur.

The same in English.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE BlSHOPS OF ISLAND.

The Bishops of Schalholt. In the yeere of Christ I.

Isleif.

Consecrated beyond the seas. 1056 Returneth and entereth the Bishops sea of Schalholt. 1057 Dieth in the yere of his age 74. the 4. of the 1080 Kalends of Iuly.

II.

Gysserus.

Consecrated beyond the sea. 1082 Returneth into Island with his Bishop.r.i.c.ke. 1083 Dieth the 5. of the Kal. of May being tuesday. 1118

III.

Thorlacus sonne of Runulphus.

Consecrated the same yeere, wherein his predecessor. In the year Gysserus deceased, but yet 30. dayes before of his age 32 his death. Dieth. 1133

IV.

Magnus.

Consecrated. 1134 On the morrowe after the feast of all Saints, in his 1148 parish towne of Hiitardal, the house being striken with lightning, hee, and 70. men with him were consumed with fire.

V.

Klaingus.

Chosen. 1151 Entreth the see. 1152 Dieth. 1176

VI.

Thorlacus.

Chosen two yeres before the death of his predecessour.

Consecrated. 1178 Dieth. 1193

VII.

Paulus.

Consecrated. 1195 Dieth. 1211

VIII.

Magnus.

Consecrated. 1216

IX.

Siguardus.

Entreth his see. 1239 Dieth. 1268

X.

Arnerus.

Entreth his see. 1269 Dieth. 1298

XI.

Arnerus sonne of Helgo.

Consecrated. 1304 Entreth the see. 1305 Saileth into Norwaie, to craue timber of the king of Norway, 1309 wherewith the Church of Schalholt might be reedified, which the same yere being toucht with lightning, was burnt downe.

Returneth home. 1310 Dieth. 1320

XII.

Ionas Haldorus Elected. 1321 Consecrated the first of August. 1322 Entreth his see. 1323 Dieth. 1338

XIII.

Ionas, sonne of Indred, a Noruagian borne.

Entreth his see. 1339 Dieth. 1341

XIV.

Ionas sonne of Siguardus.

Entreth his see. 1343 Dieth on S. Magnus euen. 1348