SUBSTANTIAL MARKGRAVES: GLIMPSE OF THE CONTEMPORARY KAISERS.
Chapter IV. — ALBERT THE BEAR.
Chapter V. — CONRAD OF HOHENZOLLERN; AND KAISER BARBAROSSA.
CONRAD HAS BECOME BURGGRAF OF NURNBERG (A.D. 1170) .
OF THE HOHENZOLLERN BURGGRAVES GENERALLY.
Chapter VI. — THE TEUTSCH RITTERS OR TEUTONIC ORDER.
HEAD OF TEUTSCH ORDER MOVES TO VENICE.
TEUTSCH ORDER ITSELF GOES TO PREUSSEN.
THE STUFF TEUTSCH RITTERS WERE MADE OF. CONRAD OF THURINGEN: SAINT ELIZABETH; TOWN OF MARBURG.
Chapter VII. — MARGRAVIATE OF CULMBACH: BAIREUTH, ANSPACH.
BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH III.; AND THE ANARCHY OF NINETEEN YEARS.
KAISER RUDOLF AND BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH III.
Chapter VIII. — ASCANIER MARKGRAVES IN BRANDENBURG.
MARKGRAF OTTO IV., OR OTTO WITH THE ARROW
Chapter IX. — BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH IV.
CONTESTED ELECTIONS IN THE REICH: KAISER ALBERT I.; AFTER WHOM SIX NON-HAPSBURG KAISERS.
OF KAISER HENRY VII. AND THE LUXEMBURG KAISERS.
Chapter X. — BRANDENBURG LAPSES TO THE KAISER.
Chapter XI. — BAYARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
A RESUSCITATED ASCANIER; THE FALSE WALDEMAR.
MARGARET WITH THE POUCH-MOUTH.
Chapter XII. — BRANDENBURG IN KAISER KARL'S TIME; END OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS.
END OF RESUSCITATED WALDEMAR; KURFURST LUDWIG SELLS OUT.
SECOND, AND THEN THIRD AND LAST, OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
Chapter XIII. — LUXEMBURG KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
Chapter XIV. — BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH VI.
SIGISMUND IS KURFURST OF BRANDENBURG, BUT IS KING OF HUNGARY ALSO.
COUSIN JOBST HAS BRANDENBURG IN PAWN.
BRANDENBURG IN THE HANDS OF THE PAWNBROKERS; RUPERT OF THE PFALZ IS KAISER.
SIGISMUND, WITH A STRUGGLE, BECOMES KAISER.
BRANDENBURG IS PAWNED FOR THE LAST TIME.
THE SEVEN INTERCALARY OR NON-HAPSBURG KAISERS.
BOOK II. — OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. - 928–1417.
Chapter I. — BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER.
The Brandenburg Countries, till they become related to the Hohenzollern Family which now rules there, have no History that has proved memorable to mankind. There has indeed been a good deal written under that title; but there is by no means much known, and of that again there is alarmingly little that is worth knowing or remembering.
Pytheas, the Marseilles Travelling Commissioner, looking out for new channels of trade, somewhat above 2,000 years ago, saw the country actually lying there; sailed past it, occasionally landing; and made report to such Marseillese "Chamber of Commerce" as there then was:—report now lost, all to a few indistinct and insignificant fractions. [Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, t. xix. 46, xxxvii. 439, &c.] This was "about the year 327 before Christ," while Alexander of Macedon was busy conquering India. Beyond question, Pytheas, the first WRITING or civilized creature that ever saw Germany, gazed with his Greek eyes, and occasionally landed, striving to speak and inquire, upon those old Baltic Coasts, north border of the now Prussian Kingdom; and reported of it to mankind we know not what. Which brings home to us the fact that it existed, but almost nothing more: A Country of lakes and woods, of marshy jungles, sandy wildernesses; inhabited by bears, otters, bisons, wolves, wild swine, and certain shaggy Germans of the Suevic type, as good as inarticulate to Pytheas. After which all direct notice of it ceases for above three
