Warbeck returning from the Crusades
Illustration from Pictorial records of remarkable events in the History of the World published circa 1890. According to quoting Brewers dictionary of phrase and fable: Liebenstein and Sternfels. Two ruined castles of the Rhine. According to tradition, Leoline, the orphan, was the sole surviving child of the lord of Liebenstein; and two brothers, named Warbeck and Otho, were the surviving children of the lord of Sternfels. Both the brothers fell in love with Leoline; but, as Leoline gave the preference to Otho, Warbeck joined the Crusades. A Templar in time persuaded Otho to do the same; but, the war being over, Otho stayed at Constantinople, where he fell in love with a Greek, whom he brought home for his bride. Leoline retired to the adjacent convent of Bornhofen. Warbeck defied his brother to single combat for this insult to his betrothed; but Leoline with the nuns interposed to prevent the fight. The Greek wife, in time, eloped with one of the inmates of Sternfels, and Otho died childless. A band of robbers broke into the convent; but Warbeck armed in its defence. He repelled the robbers, but received his death-wound, and died in the lap of Leoline; thus passed away the last lord of Liebenstein. (Traditions of the Rhine.)
Size: 4369px × 2713px
Photo credit: © Historical Images Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: armour, brother, brothers, castles, child, children, chivalry, cloak, crusades, dramatic, engraving, fable, fell, flowing, forest, horseback, illustration, image, knight, leoline, liebenstein, lord, love, loved, moody, myth, orphan, otho, picture, preferred, returning, rhine, rival, romance, ruined, sole, sternfels, story, surviving, unrequited, warbeck
