A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ngship, of Henry Raspe. It was the loyal help of the Ger-man cities that enabled him to jjrusccute the contest; wiiilc he inreturn maile over to them manifold rights and immunities, in virtueof which they, in spite of i\w decree of Worms, wcie able to confirmand extend their liberties, sorely threatened by the growing power DEATH OF FREDERICK II. 211 of the princes. Amid all tlie chaos breaking in on Germany, thecities saved for the German people the possibility of a better Conrad soon gave up t
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ngship, of Henry Raspe. It was the loyal help of the Ger-man cities that enabled him to jjrusccute the contest; wiiilc he inreturn maile over to them manifold rights and immunities, in virtueof which they, in spite of i\w decree of Worms, wcie able to confirmand extend their liberties, sorely threatened by the growing power DEATH OF FREDERICK II. 211 of the princes. Amid all tlie chaos breaking in on Germany, thecities saved for the German people the possibility of a better Conrad soon gave up the dubious contest in Germany to rescuehis hereditary kingdom. There Innocent had, as suzerain, abrogatedall Fredericks grand legislative work, and caused desertion andtreachery to be preached to the subjects. While Ezzelino da Romanomaintained the Hohenstaufen cause, and that of his own house, inUpper Italy, Conrad gained some successes in Lower Italy, in par-ticular capturing Naples and Capua. All the more furiously didInnocent, who now held his court in Rome, assail him. As in the. Fig. 93.— Seal of King Connul IV. ^finl: t rVJ^AD: lUVI • AVGTI IMPISFRIDERICI FILI DI GKA KOMAOlt ? J l!K(iE • ELECT: in the field, HER-SJERLM. (From an impression in tlie Uritish Museum.) case of his father, charges, partly fabricated, partly exaggerated,were hurled at him. He was even accused of having caused thedeath of his half-brother Henry. A doom seemed to impend overthe race, and there was joy and rejoicing in the papal camp as onepremature death after another tlireatened the Babylonian breedwith extinction. At Easter, 1254, Innocent renewed the ban againstConrad, while Ezzelino was cast out of the church as a heretic andan enemy of the human race, and his brother, Alberic, instigated totake up arms against him. In Sicily an anti-king, who would carryout the wishes of the pope, was selected, in the person of Prince 216 FALL OF THE UOVSE OF HOHEXSTAUFEN. Edmund of England, the son
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