A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . reliable security for theirown safety. But Henry II. was spared thishumiliation. He was already suf-ering from ill health; and the col-lapse of his hopes, and wreckingof his religious and political system, must have been a severeblow to him. His strength rapidly failed; and on July 13, 1024,his life came to an end in the palace of Grona, near Gö was buried in Bamberg. Nine years afterwards the last restring-place of his pious consort Kunigunde was prepared at his monument, adorned with l
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . reliable security for theirown safety. But Henry II. was spared thishumiliation. He was already suf-ering from ill health; and the col-lapse of his hopes, and wreckingof his religious and political system, must have been a severeblow to him. His strength rapidly failed; and on July 13, 1024,his life came to an end in the palace of Grona, near Gö was buried in Bamberg. Nine years afterwards the last restring-place of his pious consort Kunigunde was prepared at his monument, adorned with likenesses of both, which is still ad-mired in the cathedral of Bamberg, is a work of the sixteenthcentury; the original one perished at the burning of the churchin 1081. (Plate XVH.) Henry II. (Fig. 80) had died none too soon. What hostilityhad been in store for him is shown by the complete revolutionwhich now took place in the German policy under the influenceand leadership of the German clergy. Its express object was todestroy the life-work of the last Saxon emperor, and make its. Fig. 80. — Koyal Seal of Henry II.(From an impression in the BritishMuseum.) PLAT E XVII
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