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Identifier: historyofallnati09wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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re had a particular claim to this priv-ilege. According to the law-book called the Sachsenspiegel (Fig.137) composed between 1224 and 1235, the three spiritual electorswere the archbishojis of Mayence, Cologne, and Treves. The firsttemporal vote was cast by tlie lord high steward, the Count Palatineof the Rhine ; the second by the marshal, tlie Duke of Saxony ; andthe third by the Margrave of Brandenburg, as the lord high cham-berlain. The King of Bohemia, although the arch-seneschal, wasto have no vote because he was not a German. Thus the old franchise of the princes had fallen into abeyance.The newly established College of Electors was brought into play,after the (ireat Interregnum, to select a single head of the state forthe restoration of the German realm. The necessity of such a stejj dawned first upon the papacy; forthe French royal house soon adopted an energetic policy to acquirethe power once wielded by the Hohenstaufens. After the death of 308 GERMANY TKANSFOUMED, 1272-1S2~
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