TO VIENNA. 403 
Of the earlier history of Presburg, we have chap. 
little information. Henry the Third, after he , ^l , 
had reduced the petty princes of Italy, made p,i'J"J^°^ 
war upon the Hungarians, in consequence of 
their having put out the eyes of their king, 
Peter \ The citadel of Posonium is mentioned by 
Ranzanus, as belonging to Pannonia, and re- 
markable for its strength and beauty*. Other 
allusions to it occasionally occur in the historical 
and geographical books of those authors who 
have written upon Hungary \ It seems to be 
the same place that is mentioned by Bonfinius, 
under the name of Pisonium ; whose origin he 
has somewhat fancifully deduced from the Pisos 
ofRorne^. The materials for an antient history 
(3) John Turocius, called De Thwrocs, in his Chronica Ilungaro- 
rum, makes this happen in 1047 ; but the war happened in 1048, after 
the consecration of Pope Clement II. by whom Henri/ and his wife Agnes 
were crowned. Henry AieHi al Bottenf eld in Suxony, in 1056, being 
choked with a piece of bread. See his Life, by Barnard Coriiu. 
(4) "Ex pertinentibus autem ad Pannoniam, sen malueris dicerc 
Hungariavi, primum omnium occurrit Posonium, a sinistra fluvii posilum 
oppidum, quod pulchritudine, arceque loci natura atque opere muni- 
tissima, insigne admodum est," &c. P. Ranzano, Epit. Rer. Hungar. 
apud Script. Rer. Hungar. pp. 213. Franco/. 1600. 
(5) Vide Turocium, \c\ De Thwrocs, (Chronic. Hungar. pp. 61,63, 
64, 75.) Ranzanum (Chronic Hungar. p. 228.) &c. &c. apud Script. 
Rer. Hutigar. Franco/. 1600. 
(6) " Et ad Metanastarum caput, Pisonium in Danubii ripa situm, 
quod pari modo conditoris nomen referre gloriatur, non parum Romana; 
redoleus 
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