. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. n 1298, after defeating andslaying his competitor, Adolphus of Nas-sau, and was assassinated in 1308 by hisnephew John, son of the Duke of Suabia,whose paternal estates he had story of William Tell is connectedwith Albert I. ALBERT II., King of Hungary andBohemia and Duke of Austria, suc-ceeded Sigismund as Emperor of Ger-many in 1438, He held a great diet atNuremberg, in which the Vehmic or se-cret courts were suppressed. He died thefollowing year, as he was
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. n 1298, after defeating andslaying his competitor, Adolphus of Nas-sau, and was assassinated in 1308 by hisnephew John, son of the Duke of Suabia,whose paternal estates he had story of William Tell is connectedwith Albert I. ALBERT II., King of Hungary andBohemia and Duke of Austria, suc-ceeded Sigismund as Emperor of Ger-many in 1438, He held a great diet atNuremberg, in which the Vehmic or se-cret courts were suppressed. He died thefollowing year, as he was preparing totake the field against the Turks, whowere ravaging Hungary. ALBERT I., King of the Belgians,born April 8, 1875, son of Prince Phi-lippe de Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and ofFlanders, who died Nov. 1, 1905. At thedeath of his uncle, Leopold II., Dec. 17,1909, Albert ascended the throne. His character has proved to be in completeantithesis to that of his predecessor,whose profligate and shameless life hadbeen the scandal of Europe. His familyand public life has been without re-proach, and his winning qualities have. ALBERT I., KING OF THE BELGIANS won him the esteem and affection of hispeople. On Oct. 2, 1900, he marriedPrincess Elizabeth of Bavaria. He hasthree children, of whom Prince Leopold,born Nov. 3, 1901, is the heir to thethrone. The reign of Albert prior tothe outbreak of the World War in 1914was one of marked progress and pros-perity. The Socialist party was strongin Belgium, and labor troubles were fre-quent and at times serious, but the tactof the king was successful in composingthem. When the war broke out, the kingplaced himself at the head of his army,and throughout the conflict shared thehardships of his men. When the over-whelming forces of the Germans hadtaken possession of the little kingdom,the government was removed to Havre,France. In the four years of conflictthat ensued the king exhibited militaryqualities of a high order, and played aprominent part
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