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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 67 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_077.jpg |
| Transcript | Nuremberg and the Reformati what was conquered. Many ot Philip's possessions close to Nuremberg. Albrecht was therefore able to entice her to fight for him, promising her in return for her aid 40,000 gulden, with all the Palatinate towns and the I all George's towns that she might manage to take. With the aid of three special cannon, called the Owl, the Falcon, and the Pishermaid, capable of shooting balls of 263 pounds weight, the Nuremberg army captured a considerable number of Palatinate tOWOS. But e\en after the deaths first of Ruprecht and then of his widow, who had carried on the struggle like another Margaret of Anjou, the war still dragged on on behalf of their little sons, and I party actually getting I little the best of it when, at a Reichstag in Cologne, Maximilian at length arranged a successful compromise. Nuremberg was allowed to k< she had taken, and now had more land than any other free town in the Empire. It was a doubtful blessing. She was involved in constant wars to keep it, in further quarrelf with the Markgraf over the rights of Fraisgericbt9—oi jurisdiction in matters of life and death in the newly acquired towns, and she had to pay largely inc: ontributions to the Empire. Altogether she was impoverished rather than bei. by her new property. We have now to trace ;:. of the brated feud with G D the v> knight, the chivalrous and charitable, the brave, free- booting noble, Gta of the Iron Hand. Such is the tei Gocth im when d in him, as the heroic champi< s of the Knights, the interest of his S. Truth, however, compels us ough men like Gdt2 01 PranX von Sickingen, the Robin 67 |