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Culmbach the Elector left, at his death, to his Second Son, properly to two sons, but one of them soon died, and the other became sole possessor; Friedrich by name; who, as founder of the Elder Line of Brandenburg-Culmbach Princes, must not be forgotten by us.
Philip the Magnanimous, wishing to stop "pilgrimages no-whither," buried the LOCULUS away, it was never known where; under the floor of that Church somewhere, as is likeliest. Enough now of Marburg, and of its Teutsch Ritters too. Or will the reader care to know how Culmbach came into the possession of the Hohenzollerns, Burggraves of Nurnberg?
But it lay not in him; not in his capabilities or opportunities, after all: and we but waste time in such speculations. The Culmbach Brothers, we observe, play a more important part in that era than their seniors and chiefs of Brandenburg.
In a few months afterwards he resigned, in favor of his Successor; retired to Plassenburg, and there died in about a year more. Neither Friedrich nor Johann left other than daughters: so that the united Heritage, Brandenburg and Culmbach both, came now to the third Brother, Albert; who has been in Culmbath these many years already.
And so there goes on again, from Johann George downwards, a new stream of Culmbach Princes, called the Younger or New Line, properly two contemporary Lines, of Baireuthers and Anspachers; always in close affinity to Brandenburg, and with ultimate reversion to Brandenburg, should both Lines fail; but with mutual inheritance if only one.
Conrad transmitted to his descendants his good head and strong arm, until at length becoming masters of Baireuth and Anspach, they were Margraves and ranked among important princes. Their seat now was at Culmbach, in the great castle of the Plessenburg.
Of this latter or New Culmbach Line, or split Line, especially of the Baireuth part of it, our little Wilhelmina, little Fritz's Sister, who became Margravine there, has given all the world notice.
Margraves, Generals and he, in their small string of carriages, go on, by extra-post, day and night; no rest till they get to Hof, in the Culmbach neighborhood, a good two hundred miles off, near Wilhelmina, and more than half-way to Philipsburg.
Albert, we may believe, is greatly at a loss; and deep deliberations, Culmbach, Berlin, Liegnitz, Poland all called in, are held: a case beyond measure intricate. You have given your word; word must be kept, and cannot, without plain hurt, or ruin even, to those that took it of you. Withdraw, therefore; fling it up! Fling it up? A valuable article to fling up; fling it up is the last resource.
In 1525 the Town-populations, in the Culmbach region, big Nurnberg in the van, had gone quite ahead in the new Doctrine; and were becoming irrepressibly impatient to clear out the old mendacities, and have the Gospel preached freely to them. This was a questionable step; feasible perhaps for a great Elector of Saxony; but for a Margraf of Anspach?
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