FREDERICK THE GREAT
By Thomas Carlyle
Contents
BOOK II. OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. (928)-1417.
Chapter I. BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER.
Chapter II. PREUSSEN: SAINT ADALBERT.
Chapter III. MARKGRAVES OF BRANDENBURG.
END OF THE FIRST SHADOWY LINE.
SECOND SHADOWY LINE.
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.
OF BERLIN CITY.
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.
HENRY'S SON JOHANN IS KING OF BOHEMIA; AND LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN, WITH A CONTESTED ELECTION, IS KAISER.
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.
