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Updated: May 3, 2025

Burkhard, seeing himself constrained to yield, took the oath of fealty to the new-elected King at Worms, but continued to act with almost his former unlimited authority in Swabia, and even undertook an expedition into Italy in favor of Rudolph, with whom he had become reconciled. The Italians, enraged at the wantonness with which he mocked them, assassinated him.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 : (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)