Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . 66 WORKMEN AND HEROES Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria ; opinions are divided on tne subject of hisbirthplace, some writers mentioning the castle of Veitsberg, near Ravcnsburg,others the town of Weiblingen, in Nuremburg; but since the main interest ofhis history does not begin until his succession to the paternal duchy of Swa-bia, and his departure for the Holy Land in 1147 ; his marriage with Adelaide,daughter of Theobald, Margrave of Vohburg, i
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . 66 WORKMEN AND HEROES Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria ; opinions are divided on tne subject of hisbirthplace, some writers mentioning the castle of Veitsberg, near Ravcnsburg,others the town of Weiblingen, in Nuremburg; but since the main interest ofhis history does not begin until his succession to the paternal duchy of Swa-bia, and his departure for the Holy Land in 1147 ; his marriage with Adelaide,daughter of Theobald, Margrave of Vohburg, in 1149; and finally his acces-sion to the imperial throne in 1152, we must resign ourselves to silence on thesubject of his earlier years, and take up his history from the death of ConradHI., and that monarchs choice of him as a successor, to the exclusion of hisown son. From every possible point of view, Frederick of Hohenstauflfen justified his. uncles choice : endowed with the most brilliant qualities of heart and mind, hehad already earned the suffrages of a great portion of his new subjects by themanner in which he had distinguished himself during the above-mentioned cam-paign in the Holy Land ; moreover, as the son of Frederick of Hohenstauffen andJudith, daughter of Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria, Ghibelline by his fatherand Guelph on his mothers side, there seemed good ground for the hope that inhim might terminate the differences of the two contending factions. The electiondiet was accordingly assembled at Frankfort, and it being there decided to confirmConrads choice and to invest Frederick with the imperial insignia, he was pro-claimed King of the Romans and of Germany, and anointed at Aix-la-Chapelleon March 5, 1152, the ceremony being performed by Arnoul de Gueldre, Arch-bishop of Cologne. Not lightly or eagerly did the new emperor accept these dig-nities, but after mature and careful consideration of his capacit
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