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The three slightly inclined their heads, and Mayence continued: "I trust that in the carrying out of our behests you have been put to no inconvenience during your residence in my Castle of Ehrenfels, but if you find cause for complaint I shall see to it that the transgressor is sharply punished." "My Lord, had such been the case I should at once have communicated with your Lordship at Mayence.
The Archbishop of Mayence, who but a short time since crowned the Emperor at the great altar of the cathedral, is herewith a thousand men at his back. The Count Palatine of the Rhine is also within these walls with a lesser entourage.
He pointed out to Mayence that a quorum of the Court is already in Frankfort, but his Lordship of the Upper Rhine merely protests that they must not force an Election, all of which my guardian thinks is a mere hiding of some design on the part of Mayence."
When the Emperor Maximilian died, and the imperial throne was vacant, the Archbishop of Mayence was one of seven electors who had to choose a new emperor. There were two competitors Francis the First and Maximilian's grandson, afterwards the well-known Charles the Fifth. Well, of the seven electors six were bribed.
All the ancient cities of the great valley from Basle to Mayence saw their streets inundated and the foundations of their most precious architectural monuments undermined by the searching water. The swollen river reared back at the narrow pass through the Taunus range, and formed a huge eddy that swirled over the old city of Bingen.
I digressed considerably, in the preceding chapter, from my recollections of Paris subsequent to our return from Germany after the battle of Leipzig, and the Emperor's short sojourn at Mayence.
The French now invaded Germany and took several important towns on the Rhine, including Mayence, which gladly opened its gates to them. They also occupied the Spanish Netherlands and Savoy. Meanwhile the new Convention was puzzled to determine what would best be done with the king.
Beginning of the relations between Erasmus and Luther Archbishop Albert of Mayence, 1517 Progress of the Reformation Luther tries to bring about a rapprochement with Erasmus, March 1519 Erasmus keeps aloof; fancies he may yet act as a conciliator His attitude becomes ambiguous He denies ever more emphatically all relations with Luther and resolves to remain a spectator He is pressed by either camp to take sides Aleander in the Netherlands The Diet of Worms, 1521 Erasmus leaves Louvain to safeguard his freedom, October 1521
Saintonge's regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Alzey, at Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's rearguard.
The Emperor left Saint-Cloud on the 15th of April, at four o'clock in the morning, and at midnight of the 16th entered Mayence. On his arrival his Majesty learned that Erfurt and the whole of Westphalia were in a state of the deepest alarm. This news added incredible speed to his march, and in eight hours he was at Erfurt.
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