Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . ape through the artificial foramen in hishead 86 UNIVERSAL HISTORY. —THE MODERN WORLD. the son of Henry, though only fourteenyears of age, received as his bride the heiressof Bohemia, daughter of Weneeslaiis II.—anevent which showed that the king was h)ok-ing to the union of the Bohemian crown withthat of the Empire. In the next phice Henry renewed the
Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time : comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations . ape through the artificial foramen in hishead 86 UNIVERSAL HISTORY. —THE MODERN WORLD. the son of Henry, though only fourteenyears of age, received as his bride the heiressof Bohemia, daughter of Weneeslaiis II.—anevent which showed that the king was h)ok-ing to the union of the Bohemian crown withthat of the Empire. In the next phice Henry renewed the pro-ject of Rudolph of Hapsburg for the estab-lishment of a national peace throughout Ger-many. To promote this object a diet wascalled at Frankfort in 1310, and another edict Germany. In this purpose he was supportedby the Pope, as also by the German the same year of the diet of Frankfort theking set out with an army, crossed the Alpsby way of Mont Cenis, and was hailed as adeliverer by the people of Milan. Here hereceived the iron crown of Lombardy, andwas eulogized by Dante as the Savior of now became the policy of both Guelphsand Ghibellines to secure the support ofHenry for their respective factions. Finding. THK HXITLK AT Mi il;i_, A Pleuddemann. was sent forth forbidding further warfareamong the German states. Count Eberhardof Wiirtembcrg was driven from his posses-sions for refusing to sanction the pacific meas-ures of the government. Having at lengthsecured what seemed to l)e a permanent peacein his own realm, the Eniporor next turnedhis attention to Italy, still torn by the of the Guelphs and Witha view to putting an end to these bloody tur-moils, and ])erhai)s impelled by personal am-bition, Henry determined to secure for him-self the Imperial crown as well as that of him disposed to act with impartiality, bothparties were displeased with his conduct. TheGuelphs revolted and went to war, and it wastwo y
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