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Updated: May 1, 2025
The leader, with ringing voice, that had a touch of menace in it, cried: "My Lord Archbishop of Treves, the Countess Laurette von Starkenburg invites you to sup with her." "Trapped, by God!" muttered the Elector between his clinched teeth. His eyes sparkled with anger, and the sinister light that shot from them had before now made the Emperor quail.
We passed the ruined castles of Auerback and Starkenburg, and Burg Windeck, on the summit of a mountain near Weinheim, formerly one of the royal residences of Charlemagne, and finally came to the Heiligenberg or Holy Mountain, guarding the entrance into the Odenwald by the valley of the Neckar.
He spurred his horse toward the leader, who lowered his sword and bowed to the great dignitary approaching him. "The Countess of Starkenburg is my vassal," cried the Archbishop. "You are her servant; and in much greater degree, therefore, are you mine. I command you to let us pass unmolested on our way; refuse at your peril."
The captain of the guard threw himself between the Starkenburg men and the prince of the Church, but the former made no effort at pursuit, standing motionless as they had done from the first until the rounding promontory hid them from view.
"And should I not relent at first, there are dungeons in Starkenburg where this proud spirit, with which my enemies say I am cursed, will doubtless be humbled." "Not so, my Lord. You will be treated with that consideration which should be shown to one of your exalted station." "Indeed! And melted thus by kindness, how long, think you, will the process take?"
I wish to ask permission to build a castle on the heights above Trarbach, for my son." "The Count Johann, third of the name?" "The same, my Lord, who is honoured by your Lordship's remembrance of him." "And you wish to place this stronghold between your castle of Starkenburg and my town of Treves? Were I a suspicious man, I might imagine you had some distrust of me." "Not so, my lord.
"To convey your Lordship without scathe to the gates of Starkenburg." "And if you meet resistance, what then?" "The orders stand, my Lord." "You will, I trust, allow this mendicant monk to pass peaceably on his way to Treves." "In no castle on the Moselle does even the humblest servant of the Church receive a warmer welcome than at Starkenburg.
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