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20 Intiso. -—1648, from the influence of which Tyrol did not entirely escape. The jnairiage of Leopold with the beautiful Claudia Felicitas of Medici was celebrated at Innsbruck with most brilliant festivities. After Leopold’s death Claudia assumed the regency during the mi nority of their two sons.' Her chief counsellor was the brilliant Chancellor Wilhelm Biener. *) The two sons of Leopold and Claudia, Ferdinand Karl and Sigmund Franz, ruled in turn and died without heirs, and then Tyrol

reverted once more and finally to the em perors, who still keep the title : Prince-Count of Tyrol, with the later addition of: Prince of Trent and Brixcn. As rulers of Vor- arlberg the Austrian emperors are entitled ; Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch,. Bregenz, and Sonnenberg. The Emperor reigning at that time, 1665, was Leopold I. In the same year he came to Innsbruck to receive the homage of the Ty roleans, and not long after he came again to marry, as his second wife, Claudia Felicitas, daughter

of Prince Ferdinand Karl and his wife, Anna of Medici. ; The Princess Mother gave a public festival on this occasion, and offered a solemn service of thanksgiving. In 1677 Leopold founded the University of Innsbruck, which was named ni honor of him. Through the fortunes of this Emperor Tyrol be came involved in the; War of the Spanish Succession. Leopold was the Austrian claimant to the Spanish throne, and Philip of Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV., ; was the French claimant In 1703 the French and

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Autore: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

210 TYROL PAST AND PRESENT berg,* the purchaser being, according to some his torians, Duke Stephen of Bavaria, according to others the Bavarian Knight Kummersbrack. While the hostilities were still being waged in the Unter-Innthal an event of a different character causes our Hans v. Frundsberg to figure in a peaceful mission. This was the marriage of Duke Leopold, one of the three cousins in whose favour Duchess Margaret had abdicated, with Viridis Visconti, the beautiful daughter of the ruler

of Milan, Cremona, Parma and other important Italian principalities. For Leopold was among the first Habs- burgs to enrich his house by happy nuptial ties. The train of nobles that accompanied Duke Leopold from Tyrol to Milan where the wedding festivities, which lasted several weeks, took place, consisted of 500 nobles amongst whom Knight Hans v. Frundsberg was one of the three most prominent personages. In all the towns through which they passed, particularly in Verona where an uncle of the bride, Can

of any importance in the annals of Tyrol in which the clan of the Frundsbergs play a part was the unfortunate battle of Sempach (1386) in which Leopold and many hundred nobles were slain.^ in cased in their heavy armour, which when they were once * According to one source Castle Lichtwehr was also sold, but was returned subsequently. (Lettenbichler.) | According to some writers 1400 Knights were killed in this battle

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In"sbruck. 21 brate the marriage of her son Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany (akerward the Emperor Leopold II.), and Maria Ludovica, daughter of Charles III, King of Spaing. The citizens erected on this oc- cas on a temporary arch of triumph which so pleased the Empress that some years afterward she caused it to be reconstructed in stone and marble as it now stands on the boundary line between Inns bruck and Wilten. The Archduke’s wedding opened a long suc cession of c’.tertainments, and

. To understand this It Is necessary o ave some knowledge of what has been called Josephimsm, an effort on the part of this Emperor to level and adjust political an re igious a airs. The effort was made ' with honorable though somewhat mistaken purpose, and was one that could not ultimately prove success u. Under Leopold II. the University was re-instated m its original i ights. The Emperor Francis II. oxupied the throne at .an unhappy crisis — that of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic, Wars

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¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea

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inhabitants of Vienna. A species of fair is held on this occasion. Historical Facts connected with Vienna* Vienna is generally believed to oc cupy the site of the Roman station Vindobona, remarkable as the spot where the Emperor Marcus Aurelius breathed his last. 1 he foundation both of the present archduchy and empire of Austria was laid in 983, when the emp. Qtho If. created Leopold of Babenberg Mar grave of the Ostmark, which at that period did not extend further +bwn Molk. Leopold took Molk from the

church), and, in fact, may be regarded as the real founder of the Austria® capital, which before his time does-not appear to have ever been a place ol much Importance. His son, Leopold V surnamed the Virtuous (der Tugend* hafte), inherited the duchy of Styiia. Duke Leopold has gained a bad reputa tion in English history, where he is generally represented as the sordid and ‘ treacherous foe of Richard Coeur-de- Lion. German historians view bis conduct in a very different light and the facts which they

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the past three hundred years. Here the Archduke Leopold V. kneels with the beautiful Claudia of Medici to receive the marriage blessing, while beyond the frontier echo the thunders of the Thirty Year’s War, Here kneels queen Christina of Sweden, while ranks of the priests and nobles crowd to hear her devout confession of the Catholic faith, and all the bells of the town, with the roar of cannon, add to the general jubilation. Here the Tyroleans rejoice aloud in a service of solemn thanks giving

, for another Claudia of Medici — a Tyrolean princesshas been chosen as bride ly an Emperor — Leopold I. And Stadtsale, here, in troublous times, kneels Andreas Hofer, while the Emperor’s < ijfts — a medal and chain are solemnly placed on his breast. It is the birthday of the Emperor Francis 1., which Hofer the Regent has commanded should be celebrated throughout 'lyrol. The Hofburg or Palace stands at a right angle with the Hofkirche, to the northwest, and faces the alley of trees in front of the

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¬The¬ Cornice, the Grimsel and the Gries, the Bernardin and the Splugen, the Brenner, the Tende and the Argentière, and the Simplon.- (Illustrations of the passes of the Alps ; Vol. 2)

Pagina 90 di 164

Autore: Brockedon, William / by William Brockedon

Editore: Print. for the author, sold by Rodwell

Descrizione fisica: Getr. Zählung ; zahlr. Ill.

Commenti: Illustrations of the passes of the Alps : by which Italy communicates with France, Switzerland, and Germany

Segnatura: III 83.717/2

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, by whom she had this son, disputed the claims of the Duke Rodolph of Austria, and their wars made the Tyrol desolate; every place in the lower Inn-thal was burnt, except Inspruck and Hall, and a severe winter following the calami ties of war, completed the misery of the Tyrolese. Rodolph bought off the claims of Bavaria, to prevent a renewal of the war. His successor, Albert, by a wise policy, greatly relieved the Tyrolese from the effects of these dreadful scourges. Under Leopold,* his brother, the

; for the Elector of Bavaria, having united with Louis the Fourteenth, renewed an exploded claim to the Tyrol, and invaded it; but its inhabitants, faithful to Austria, and roused by the outrages of the Bavarian soldiers, flew to arms, and drove the invaders from their hearths; and the elector himself narrowly escaped * This Leopold is remembered in history as having fallen at the celebrated battle of Sempach, which sealed the liberties of Switzerland.

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Pagina 64 di 406

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months later, to the See of Salzburg by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in person. By this act Albert III., hitherto Archbishop of Salzburg, was unceremoniously ousted from his throne, A sanguinary feud arose between these two great militant church-lords, for both were bellicose and forceful per sonages, and the prize consisted of the absolute sovereignty over vast territories. On which side the Frundsbergs fought is not known. Archbishop Adalbert, it may be mentioned, was a nephew of the Duke Leopold

of Austria who captured England’s royal knight-errant, Richard Cœur de Lion, on the latter’s return journey from Pales tine. History avers that this was done in revenge for the famous but somewhat apocryphal insult which the English prince had offered to the Austrian. Even in those days of fierce strife between the Church and Empire, such an insult as the capture of a royal crusader could not go unpunished, so excommunication and the great ban of the church overtook the bold Leopold. It was only when

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. As he left no heirs of royal birth, the throne fell in 1595 to the Emperor Rudolph II. In 1612 he was followed in quick succession by Archduke Maximilian, in 1618 by Archduke Ferdinand, in 1626 by Leopold, and at his death, six years later, by his widow the wise Arch duchess Claudia de Medici. As guardian of their son Ferdinand Charles, she ruled and hunted—for she was a great sportswoman—until 1646, when the latter came of age. On the death of Ferdinand Charles in 1662 with out male issue, his austere

Leopold, the sole heir of the German-Austrian territories. In his reign the War of the Spanish Succession caused Tyrol to be attacked from two sides, French troops under Vendôme coming in from the south and vainly besieging Trent, while the Bavarians invaded it by routes made familiar to them by scores of incursions during the past half-dozen centuries. This time they were more successful, at least at the

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THE COUNTRY’S HISTORY 99 beginning, for alter destroying numberless villages and castles in the Unter-Innthal, they captured even the capital. At this desperate juncture the Landsturm, or general levy of the peasantry, rose up (i7°3) an< I smote the invaders in various pitched engagements, the battle at the Pontlatzer Bridge being the most famous. For there an army of trained soldiers was utterly vanquished by a numerically much inferior, ill-armed force of peasants. The Emperor Leopold did not

brother, the Emperor Leopold II. succeeded him for the rest of his short life, his eldest son following him in 1792 as the Emperor Francis II. of Germany and as Francis I. of Austria. He had reigned only a few years when the great struggle with the conqueror of the world commenced. Quickly following up his success at Lodi, the youthful Bonaparte in the first weeks of the year 1797 defeated the Austrians at Rivoli. The retreat of the Austrian army towards Carinthia left the routes into Tyrol so ill

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20 TYROL PAST AND PRESENT repentant Leopold accepted the conditions imposed by the Archbishop, the principal one of which was that the heavy ransom obtained for the person of Richard should be returned to the English court. Peace was made and Leopold found a last resting-place in sacred earth, while our Archbishop, so chroniclers relate, received the warm thanks of the English king. Of another royal wayfarer, a small gothic church lying behind yonder shoulder of the mountain tells a picturesque

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adorned j> , 1 enamel, Leopold was the 6 th -11 margrave of Austria (1096 * He was buried at Molk; and hough the usual number of miracles t ® r ® said to have been worked at his car 5 ^ Was not until repeated appli- tions had been made to Rome for ^Ptrards of two centuries that he was Vnr * Cun °nized by Pope Innocent in 1485, His body was removed om Molk and placed here 1506. saong the relics shown are the stump . a tree and a veil which, according to he legend, is the veil of Leopold’s wife

, . e Margravine Agnes, which was car- lle d away by the wind one day as she Stood with her husband on the top of tbe Leopoldsberg, meditating on the site of a monaste ry which she was bent vn founding. The veil long defied all search; until, nine years afterwards, l t was discovered by Leopold whilst he hunting, hanging, uninjured by ^vd and weather, on an elder-tree, on how In of the spot where Klosterneuburg stands, which was regarded as 8 thus miraculously pointed out the erection of the monastery

. «i +1^16, Maximilian, Grandmaster the u Teutonic Order and son of Maximilian IL, placed the s brin iCa ^ coronet of Austria on the the t \ E St. Leopold and implored Since^tv to ^ ee P ^ hi Ms holy custody, the * ns the coronet has been kept in by Invent: it was removed to Vienna sae 0(i; . H-, but restored by bis II., 1<90, On the Of C^SOI'j it of of It, one of the towers is a Cc Wer U l!S a ntic dimensions, made of made ont !^ er <»riosit»es are: a cup in the gravel Altar of Verdun., covered with 51 metal plates

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, amounted to 150,000 foot, 30,000 horse, and 700 [ pieces of cannon, concentrated from all quarters of Europe. rt. Schwiichat, in the distance, is a village of 2000 Inhab., more than a mile from the Danube. A stone monu ment outside the village marks the spot where the Emperor Leopold (the meanest of Austria’s monarchs) met John Sobiesky after he and the Duke of Lorraine had raised the siege of ' Vienna, and driven back the Turks in 168.3. Leopold, who was a stickler for etiquette, inquired in wlmt

manner he was to receive the Polish hero. " With open arms,’ 5 answered Lorraine, in reference to the greatness of the obli gation which Sobiesky had conferred, on him. Leopold, however, thought otherwise." studiously punctilious as to the formalities to be observed between himself, as emperor, and an elective monarch, he displayed no feelings of gratitude to his deliverer, even if he felt any. They met on horseback, they descended at a given signal, and Sobi esky was greeted with a cold embrace

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Eleonora Vincenzo, of Mantua. The ceremony was one of great magnificence, and the wedding feast was served by Tyrolean noblemen. herdinand appointed as regent his brother, Archduke Leopold V. We. have reached the stormy period of the "Thirty Jeans' War, >61L

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Owsald von Wolkenstein : a memoir of the last minnesinger of Tyrol

Pagina 36 di 182

Autore: Villari, Linda / Linda Villari

Descrizione fisica: 164 S. : zahlr. Ill.

Editore: Dent

Soggetto: p.Oswald <von Wolkenstein>

Segnatura: II 100.626

ID interno: 209616

Ill Friedrich IV. was the youngest son of Duke Leopold of Austria and Virida Visconti of Milan, He was neither a man of first-class ability nor of high moral worth, but after the reckless period of his minority and the first troublous, blundering years of his reign, he developed excellent qualities as a ruler. Really solicitous for the welfare of his people, physically brave and of genial temper, he could strike hard on emergency, but seldom showed rancour, and, even when coarsened by sensual

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Owsald von Wolkenstein : a memoir of the last minnesinger of Tyrol

Pagina 42 di 182

Autore: Villari, Linda / Linda Villari

Descrizione fisica: 164 S. : zahlr. Ill.

Editore: Dent

Soggetto: p.Oswald <von Wolkenstein>

Segnatura: II 100.626

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Oswald von Wolkenstein 31 pay into his hands all tithes and taxes due to their over-lord on their fiefs. It is uncertain whether Vintler made un lawful profits by these transactions or not ; but at any rate the taxes he levied on his fellow- nobles were based on old calculations by no means corresponding with the increased value of their lands. When first appointed to his office by Friedrich’s father Duke Leopold, lie had been granted a special patent exempting him from the duty of submitting

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. Al- ; 11. ; 21. Godfrey of Bouillon ; Albeit I., Duke of Austria; 2.3 ky Sa tSllf * e the Empty Purse, whc Pi golden roof; 24. Leopold the (1 - the Ï * who fell at Seropach; 25, . n IV., Count of Habsburg; ■■ Leopold; 27. The Emp. Fre- tt ■». » • — - - - v. me Emp* ^ J fiw?I* U T hf^Pto- ; its sides are ornameute rc jief. ka».xMM or rather pw -ia a ^ed i n Carrara marbl^wdh^ heanty and minuteness of ^ ap not surpassed by tta* ?_ - ique ol «o. rrv 'ey are probably un! H u their kind. They are protected by screens, but

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Owsald von Wolkenstein : a memoir of the last minnesinger of Tyrol

Pagina 92 di 182

Autore: Villari, Linda / Linda Villari

Descrizione fisica: 164 S. : zahlr. Ill.

Editore: Dent

Soggetto: p.Oswald <von Wolkenstein>

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as a champion of justice and peace, and always sided with his father-in-law, Sigis- mund, against his cousin Friedrich. So after hearing the envoys 5 eloquent exposition of their case, he readily confirmed the Patent of u Special Privilege " that had been granted in 1406 to the nobles of the Inn and the Etsch by Friedrich’s predecessor, Duke Leopold. Seeing that the Tirolese nobles held most of their lands in fee from Duke Friedrich, who as Count of Tirol was their over-lord, it is clear that they had

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A Stroll through the Town. 4 » of Germany (husband of Maria Theresa) died so suddenly on August 18. 1765. ldiagonally opposite the Palace stands the Theatre, erected between 1840—50 on the site of the play house built by the Archduke Fer dinand in 1653. It holds a foremost place among provincial theatres. The season usually lasts from the beginning ot October or end of Sep tember until Easter. Before the theatre stood a 1 mall but very beautiful equestrian statue of the Archduke Leopold

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Pagina 305 di 406

Autore: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

unparalleled devotion. The young Duke had died on January 13, 1363, and the thirteen days’ reign of his mother came to an end on January 26, when, at the advice of her coun cillors she abdicated in favour of her three cousins Rudolph, Albrecht, and Leopold, Dukes of Austria. Amongst the names and seals of the fourteen councillors attesting the deed of abdication figures Hans von Frundsberg, but Count Ulrich Matsch singularly enough, though titular Governor of Tyrol, is not among them. He seems to have

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-road up the valley of the Brühl leads by Laden to Sect, XI. IFe Uigenkreutz , the oldest Cistercian abbey in Austria, founded by St. Leo pold, 1134, an easy ride of 5 hrs. from Vienna, The nave and W. end of the church, the dormitory, the crypt (Fürst- engruft), containing the tombs of the old Babenberg princes, and among them that of Frederick the Warlike, sadly mutilated by the Turks, and the profusely ornamented cloisters, having a side chapel, rich in painted glass, re presenting St. Leopold

Palestine (1182) by Leopold V. of Austria, the foe of Richard Cœur-de-Lion. There is a theological seminary attached to the convent, and the pupils are in structed by the monks. [An excursion to Heiligenkroute from Vienna may he made as follows i Proceed by Railway to Baden ; break* fast there, and see the Baths, 4®, Hire a carriage, of which there né plenty, and drive up the Helenenthal« and on to the Abbey of Heiligèn- krente, which visit, and on leaving: it walk over the Calvarienberg, sending the

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Pagina 396 di 406

Autore: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis