A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ady to make any sacrifices to win support. In a formalinstrument he inade over to the church all that it had claimed sincethe death of Henry VI.,— namely, in addition to the proper patri-mony of St. Peter, the Matildan lands, Ancona, and Spoleto, theExarchate, the Pentapolis, besides the Italian islands, pledging him-self to protect it in these possessions with all his resources, and toreconfirm this grant on the occasion of the imperial a Hohenstaufen, with a stroke of his pen (Fig. 80), s
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ady to make any sacrifices to win support. In a formalinstrument he inade over to the church all that it had claimed sincethe death of Henry VI.,— namely, in addition to the proper patri-mony of St. Peter, the Matildan lands, Ancona, and Spoleto, theExarchate, the Pentapolis, besides the Italian islands, pledging him-self to protect it in these possessions with all his resources, and toreconfirm this grant on the occasion of the imperial a Hohenstaufen, with a stroke of his pen (Fig. 80), sur- 188 TBE TIOHENSTAUFENS AND THE WELFS. rendered what his father and grandfather had exerted all theirmighty force to gain, and endowed the chuich with territories to auextent which, at the very start, made the realization of Frederickssecret plans of aggrandizement impossible. German national senti-ment was unknown to him. He purchased the friendship of Walde-mar II. of Denmark by the cession of the mark north of the Elbe,which. Henry the Lion had fought hard to win for
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