A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ver. Size of the original.(Berlin.) father-in-law had maintained the royal prerogatives, alike won himthe enmity of the Roman see and the turbulent nobility, and theirjoint opposition to his election. Conrad of Hohenstaufen, the pre-tender of the last reign, was now found willing to play the partof a priests king. In the very grossest violation of precedent,Conrad (Figs. 13, 1-1) was chosen king, March 7, 1138, by theSwabians and Franconians alone, without the participation of Saxonyand Bavaria. His attitu
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ver. Size of the original.(Berlin.) father-in-law had maintained the royal prerogatives, alike won himthe enmity of the Roman see and the turbulent nobility, and theirjoint opposition to his election. Conrad of Hohenstaufen, the pre-tender of the last reign, was now found willing to play the partof a priests king. In the very grossest violation of precedent,Conrad (Figs. 13, 1-1) was chosen king, March 7, 1138, by theSwabians and Franconians alone, without the participation of Saxonyand Bavaria. His attitude toward Rome was one of general friend-liness rather than of specific surrender, except in special cases ofthe royal rights. The problem set before both king and church wasto break down the power of the Welfs; and this they were unableto do. In the resultless struggle both parties exhausted the Proud delivered up the imperial insignia, and, in return,required confirmation in his fiefs. Thereupon the law was restored 72 ISSUE AXD EFFECTS OF THE INVESTITUUE Ilu. 11. - Kiiuesti Kill statue of Kiiiy Coiiiad 111., in tin- Cutiieilral at Bamberg, DEATH OF HENRY THE PROUD. 73 to force enacting that two dukedoms could not be combined in oneliand. After brief negotiations, there resulted the inevitable the summer of 1138 the Welf was outlawed, and formallydeposed from his Saxon duchy, which was conferred by Conrad onAlbert the Bear. A new civil war burst forth, in which Lothairswidow, the masculine empress Richenza, sought to shield Saxonyagainst Albert. Thereupon the king ordered Bavaria also to bewrested from the rebel, and presented it to his half-brother, theMargrave Leopold IV. of Austria, one of tlie numerous sons ofHenry daughter Agnes by her second marriage with l^eopoldIII. of Austria. In 1139 Henry the Proud died during a temporary claims in Saxony passed to his nine-year-old son, Henry (laterknown as the Lion), whose
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