A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . een forfeited. In all other respects the sentence ofGelnhausen was carried out. Such as had been despoiled of theirlands by Henry were restored to their rights. A general jieace wasproclaimed in order to give rest to the lands torn for so many yearsby intestine feuds. The duke had to take an oath to keep awayfrom Saxony till the emperor gave him leave to return. With hisfamily and household he went to his father-in-law, Henry II. of Eng- OVERTUROW OF HENRY THE LION. 165 Luid, hoping in time to avenge liis
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . een forfeited. In all other respects the sentence ofGelnhausen was carried out. Such as had been despoiled of theirlands by Henry were restored to their rights. A general jieace wasproclaimed in order to give rest to the lands torn for so many yearsby intestine feuds. The duke had to take an oath to keep awayfrom Saxony till the emperor gave him leave to return. With hisfamily and household he went to his father-in-law, Henry II. of Eng- OVERTUROW OF HENRY THE LION. 165 Luid, hoping in time to avenge liis humiliation, and to win back hislands. Through the overthrow of the power of Henry the Lion a changecame upon Fredericks kingdom. Materially it was in no degreeaggrandized. What the soveieign had fornierlj, at the cost of hisroyal rights, conferred on other princes, as on the new duke of Aus-tria, to reconcile them to the restoration of the power of the Welfs,remained firmly theirs ; what Henry had usurped from the estatesof the realm reverted to them. In no case was the monarchy the. liG. Tli. — Armour and arms in tlie twt-ltth century; stormini; a. ui a en^.From the Ilortus Delicianun (Garden of Delights) of Abbess Herrad ofLandsberg, about 1100-1170. (From Engelhardt.) heir of the Welf. The main sharer in the spoils was the archhishopof Cologne, and, through him, the German church. Enriched inworldly means, and strengthened by her re-admission into the churchuniversal, she now held a position more independent of the mon-archy than she had ever before enjoyed. But the dismembermentof Saxony was baneful for Germanys position in respect to theSlavs. Through the weakness of Duke Bernard, and the incessant 166 FREDERICK I. BARBAROSSA. feuds between him and the petty- dynasties, now practically inde-[lendent, the great work of Chiistianizing, civilizing, and Germaniz-ing this people came to a standstill. \\aldemars successor, CanuteVI., the son-in-law of the overthrown
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