smith's-vice

Updated: May 21, 2025

Enough now of Rupert SMITH'S-VICE; who died in 1410, and left the Reich again vacant.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02

He had a kind of right, too, in the Anti-Pragmatic sense; and was come of Imperial kindred, Kaiser Ludwig the Bavarian, and Kaiser Rupert of the Pfalz, called Rupert KLEMM, or Rupert Smith's-vice, if any reader now remember him, were both of his ancestors. He might fairly pretend to Kaisership and to Austrian ownership, had he otherwise been equal to such enterprises.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12