A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 96. — Seal of Conrad, Duke of Masovia. Impression in wax, attached by a cordof red silk to a document dati^d 12:w. Tlie dul?e is represented on ;, infull armor; on Iiis head a peaked helmet with visor. On his left arm he carrieshis shield; on liis right a banner with the cross, referring to wars between theheathen Prussians and the Teutonic Order of which he was the founder. Le-gend: t [S] CONRADI DVCIS . . DVC . . IRIE LÄCICIE. (From Voss-berg.) (Fig. 95), courted by both parties, and
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 96. — Seal of Conrad, Duke of Masovia. Impression in wax, attached by a cordof red silk to a document dati^d 12:w. Tlie dul?e is represented on ;, infull armor; on Iiis head a peaked helmet with visor. On his left arm he carrieshis shield; on liis right a banner with the cross, referring to wars between theheathen Prussians and the Teutonic Order of which he was the founder. Le-gend: t [S] CONRADI DVCIS . . DVC . . IRIE LÄCICIE. (From Voss-berg.) (Fig. 95), courted by both parties, and invested by Richard withthe vicegerency of all the lands east of the Rhine, had, by seizingAustria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, erected a German-Slavicpower in the southeast. Feuds and robberies were universal; thesword was the sole arbiter; and Germany was threatened witheconomic ruin. The cities, especially those of North Germany,took measures to defend then^sclves. Lübeck and Hamburg, in 220 FÄLL OF THE HOUSE OF l-iii. MT. roiiibstone of Conrail, land-grave of Thuriiigia (died Vl-ii), grand-master of the Teutonic Order. (Mar-burg.) 1241, entered into a league forthe protection of their trade,while the Rhenish cities,—Mayence, Worms, Oppenheim,and Bingen, — in 1254, consti-tuted themselves into the Rhen-isli League, so that the indus-trial prosperity of the Germanmiddle class was, in somemeasure at least, made secureagainst the baleful effects ofthe struggle for the throne. Astriking contrast to the state ofdecadence into which Germanywas sinking now appeared inthe foundation by the religio-niilitary order of the TeutomcKnights (Figs. 96, 97) of anew German state in Prussiabeyond the Vistula. They in-sured its development in thathalf-depopulated region, of the general oppositionof its Slavic natives, by theexemplary excellence of its or-ganization. For inheritors of the Ho-henstaufen name and traditionsthere was in Germany, underthese cir
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