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Died at the Court of Dessau; the Anhalt Cousins treating him to the last as Head Representative of Albert the Bear, and real Prince Waldemar; for which they had their reasons. How it fared with poor Brandenburg, in these chaotic throttlings and vicissitudes, under the Bavarian Kurfursts, we can too well imagine; and that is little to what lies ahead for it.
Must at least explain how they came in, as "Luxemburg Kurfursts" in Brandenburg; and how they went out, leaving Brandenburg not annihilated, but very near it. Imaginary Waldemar being still busy in Brandenburg, it was natural for Kaiser Karl to find him genuine, and keep up that goblin-dance round poor Kurfurst Ludwig, the late Kaiser's son, by no means a lover of Karl's.
Let three centuries, let twelve generations farther come and pass, and there will be another still more notable Friedrich, our little Fritz, destined to be Third King of Prussia, officially named Friedrich II., and popularly Frederick the Great. Eleven successive Kurfursts followed Friedrich in Brandenburg.
Reich's Execution Army to coerce, by force of arms, this nefarious King of Prussia into making instant restitution to Saxony, with ample damages on the nail; that right be done to Kurfursts of this Reich. Simultaneous movements, unknown to one another, in this big wrestle.
Albert is buried at Heilsbronn in Frankenland, among his Ancestors, burial in Brandenburg not yet common for these new Kurfursts: his skull, in an after-time, used to be shown there, laid on the lid of the tomb; skull marvellous for strength, and for "having no visible sutures," says Rentsch.
Joachim's first Wife, from whom descend the following Kurfursts, was a daughter of that Duke George of Saxony, Luther's celebrated friend, "If it rained Duke-Georges nine days running."
Cock with his own gizzard much out of sorts, too! He came by the Moselle road; called on the Rhine Kurfursts, Koln, Trier, Mainz; dazzling them, so far as possible, with his splendor for the mind and for the eye.
Hof, Town and Territory, had fallen to his Father in those parts; a gift of gratitude from Kaiser Ludwig: most of the Voigtland is now Hohenzollern. Kaiser Ludwig the Bavarian left his sons Electors of Brandenburg; "Electors, KURFURSTS," now becomes the commoner term for so important a Country; Electors not in easy circumstances.
Under Albert the Markgrafdom had risen to be an ELECTORATE withal. In reference to which abstruse matter, likely to concern us somewhat, will the uninstructed English reader consent to the following Excerpt, slightly elucidatory of KURFURSTS and their function? These Six, with Brandenburg, are the Seven Kurfursts in old time; SEPTEMVIRS of the Country, so to speak.
If Brandenburg suffered much under the Bavarian Kurfursts for Fifty years, it was worse, and approached to the state of worst, under the Luxemburgers, who lasted for some Forty more. Ninety years of anarchy in all; which at length brought it to great need of help from the Fates!
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