Christian VII, king of Denmark,
iii. 104, 105. Christianity, its propagation, i. 145; spirit, 146; the Catholic doctrine in the first ages, 148; com- mencement of the hierarchy, 150; the monasteries, 153; the Ca- tholic form of worship, 154; the hierarchy in the middle ages, ii. 24; ceremonials, Roman Litur- gy, and church festivals, 29; ecclesiastical division of Germa- ny, 30; disputes of the Francis- can and Dominican orders, 32; German Mysticism and Italian Scholasticism, ib.; Gothic ar- chitecture, 35; council of Con- stance, 157; doctrines of Huss, 160; Hussite wars in Bohemia, 165; council of Basle, 176; cor- ruption of the church, 218; the Reformation, 225; Erasmus and Reuchlin, 223; Melancthon, 224; Luther, 225; the Augsburg Con- fession, 251; the Jesuits, 272, 399; the Lutheran and Reform- ed churches, 406, iii. 425; the Rationalists and Supernatural- ists, 425; Illuminatism, 427. Christiern II. of Sweden, ii. 257, 258.
Christina, queen of Sweden, ii. 466. Chronicles and histories of the middle ages, ii. 58, 72. Cimbri, the, chivalric usages of, i. 20; irruption into Gaul and Italy, 68; defeated by Marius, 73. Clement XII., pope, ii. 234, 235. Coinage of Germany in the middle ages, ii. 68.
Cologne cathedral, ii. 37.
Cologne, civil disturbances at, ii. 21.
Condé, the great, ii. 389; his wars
against France, 465. Confession of Augsburg, ii. 252. Conrad, (Hohenstaufen,) duke of Franconia, i. 433; his bold re- sistance to Lothar III., 438; elect- ed emperor at Coblentz, 445;
heads a crusade, 452; its failure, 455; his return and death, 456. Conrad I., emperor of Germany, i. 308.
Conrad the Red, i. 327, 331–334. Conrad II., his election, i. 364;
crowned at Rome, 366; revolt and outlawry of Duke Ernst, 367, 368; seizes on Burgundy, 371; quells the revolt in Italy, 372. Conrad, son of Henry IV., i. 409; appointed to the government of Italy, ib.; his marriage, ib.; re- volt, ib.; remorse and death, 410. Conrad of Montserrat, i. 488, 490, 491.
Conrad, chancellor of Henry VI., i. 497.
Conrad, son of Frederick II. i. 529, 542; regent of Germany, 549; wars with Henry Raspe and William the Rude, 549- 553; takes refuge in Italy and dies, ii. 2.
Conrad von Hochstetten, archbi- shop of Cologne, ii. 21. Conrad von Marburgh, a Domi- nican monk, attempts to intro- duce the Inquisition in Germany, i. 525.
Conradin, the last of the Hohen- staufen, ii. 8; is brought up at the court of Bavaria, 9; crosses the Alps to head the Ghibellines, 10; treachery and meanness of his relatives, ib.; welcomed in Northern Italy, 11; rout of his forces by Charles of Anjou, ib.; his betrayal and execution, ib. Constance, council of, ii. 157; its rival factions, 158; condemna- tion of Huss, 162; abortive con- clusion, 164.
Constantia, empress of Henry VI., i. 495, 496, 498.
Constantia, empress of Frederick II., i. 510. Constantine, emperor, defeats the Alemanni, i. 109; and the Franks, 114.
Copenhagen, bombardment of, iii.
Coranda, a leader of the Hussites, ii. 167.
Coribut, Prince, a leader of the imperial Hussites, ii. 173-175. Cornelius, school of Painting of, iii. 440.
Coronation of the German em-
perors, ceremony of, ii. 412. Crecy, battle of, ii. 127. Crescentius, i. 343, 349, 350. Crusades, the, i. 410; their rise and origin, 410-412; early expedi- tions, 412, 413; their disastrous fate, 413, 414; expedition under Godfrey of Bouillon, 414; battle of Antioch, 417; storm of Jeru- salem, 419; principalities found- ed in Palestine, 420, 421; later crusades, 422-426; their influ- ence on Europe, 426; crusade un- der Conrad III., 450; under Fre- derick Barbarossa, 482; Richard Cœur de Lion and Leopold of Austria, 490; under Baldwin of Flanders, 503; under Leopold the Glorious, 514; the last cru- sade, ii. 13.
Cunigunda, queen of Henry II., i. 354-356.
Custine, general of the French re- public, iii. 163–165, 167. Cymburga, wife of Ernst the Iron, ii. 150.
DAGOBERT, king of Austrasia, i. 214.
Dandolo, doge of Venice, i. 504. Danes, the, their origin and early history, i. 263; establishment of Christianity in Denmark, 345. Dante, ii. 110, 111. Dantzig,spoliation of, by the French, iii. 343.
D'Assisi, Francisco, i. 508, 509. Daun, general of Maria Theresa, iii. 61-63.
Davoust, Marshal, iii. 321, 328, 332. Derflinger, Marshal, ii. 484, 485. De Ruyter, naval victories of,
against the English, ii. 474-476, 482. Desiderata, wife of Charlemagne, i. 225, 229.
Desiderius, king of Lombardy, i. 225-232.
De Witt, John, stadtholder of Hol- land, ii. 474-477, 480, 481. Dezebal, his wars with the Romans, i. 98.
Diephold, Count d'Acerra, i. 498, 503.
Diet of the German empire, its con- stitution, etc., ii. 410.
Dietrich von Bern, see Theodorich the Great.
Dietrich, Markgraf of Brandenburg, i. 344, 345.
Dietrich, Count of Alsace, i. 441; obtains the dukedom of Flanders, ib.; popularity of his rule, ib.; death, 480.
Dietrich the Oppressed, i. 494. Don Juan, son of Charles V., ii. 298, 299.
Drusus, his campaigns in Germany, i. 81.
Dschingischan, leader of the Tar- tars, i. 540.
Dumouriez, iii. 161; intrigues with the king of Prussia, ib.
EBERHARD, Count of Würtemberg, ii. 53, 77, 92, 109, 110, 118, 119. Edessa, taken by Zengis, i. 451. Edgar Atheling, i. 390, 391, 418. | Eginhart, secretary of Charlemagne, i. 254; legend of his marriage to the daughter of Charlemagne, 258. Egmont, Count, ii. 288, 290, 292. Einheriar, the, of the Walhalla, i. 22, 56.
Eitel Hans Müller, leader in the peasant war, ii. 237, 240. Ekbert, Graf of Brunswick, i. 384. Ekbert, Margrave of Misnia, i. 384, 407, 408.
Eleonora, empress of Frederick III., ii. 189, 191.
Eleonore, queen of Gustavus Adol- phus, ii. 350, 353, 354, 358.
Eleonore, queen of Louis VII. of France, i. 454; accompanies him to the crusades, ib.; her infi- delities, 455.
Elisabeth, St., of Hungary, i. 525, 526, 531.
Elisabeth, empress of Russia, iii. 55; joins the league against Fre- derick II., 57, 66. Elisabeth Stuart, queen of Bohe- mia, ii. 360.
Emma, daughter of Charlemagne, legend of her marriage, i. 258. Engelbert, archbishop of Cologne, i. 517; founder of the secret tri- bunal or Feme, 521; his death, 522.
Engelbert von Falkenberg, arch- bishop of Cologne, ii. 21, 22. England, her naval war with Hol- land, ii. 475; with Napoleon, iii. 254-368.
Enzio, son of Frederick II., i. 542; receives the throne of Sardinia, 544; his wars with the Guelphs in Italy, 546, 554; imprisonment and untimely fate, 555, ii. 12, 13. Erasmus, ii. 223, 224.
Ernest Augustus, first Elector of Hanover, iii. 26.
Ernest, Duke of Cumberland, iii. 414; succeeds William IV. as king of Hanover, ib.; constitu- tional struggles of his subjects, 414-416.
Ernst, Duke, revolts from Conrad II., 367; outlawed, 368; his death, ib.
Ernst the Iron, of Styria, ii. 150. Etzel, king of the Huns and Ostro- goths, i. 137; ravages Greece and Germany, 138; is defeated at Chalons, 139; his invasion of Italy, and death, 140.
Eudoxia, widow of Valentinian, i. 142.
Eudoxia, wife of Hunerich, i. 143. Eugene, prince of Savoy, ii. 497,
507; his campaign against the French in Italy, 519; on the Rhine, 523; second campaign in
Italy, 526; battles of Oudenarde and Malplaquet, 529; intercedes with Queen Anne in behalf of Marlborough, iii. 4, 5; attends the congress of Rastadt, 6; de- feats the Turks, 8; condition of the imperial army at his death,
Eugene Beauharnais, created vice- roy of Italy, iii. 234, 345; duke of Leuchtenberg, 367. Eugene III., pope, his scheme for a crusade, i. 451. Eugenius IV., pope, ii. 176–184. Ezzelino di Romano, i. 543, 554, 555; ii. 1-3.
FARAMUND, elected king of the Sa- lii, i. 136. Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, ii. 244, 245; succeeds to the throne of Germany, 271; his vacillating policy, 274-276.
Ferdinand of the Tyrol, ii. 279. Ferdinand III., ii. 375–384. Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, ii. 316; his treatment of the Pro- testants, 317; elected emperor, 320; commencement of the thirty years' war, ib.; his perfidy in Bohemia, 325; revolt of the Up- per Austrians, 328; dismissal of Wallenstein, 344; his reinstate- ment, 356; assassination of Wal- lenstein, 365; results of his reign, 375, 376.
Ferdinand, duke of Brunswick, commands under Frederick II. in the seven years' war, iii. 64, 65; character of his government, 118; opposed to war with the French republic, 158; defeats the French at Kaiserslautern, 179; defeated by Napoleon at Jena, 242; flight and death, 245. Ferdinand VII., king of Spain, iii. 255, 384, 390.
Ferdinand I., emperor of Austria, iii. 420.
Ferdinand, Duke of Orleans, son of Louis Philippe, iii. 420, 421.
Ferrand, Count of Portugal, i. 512, 551.
Feudal system, the, i. 163, 249. Fichte, philosophy of, iii. 432. Flagellants, origin of the, ii. 3; de- nounced by Clement VI., 129. Flanders, encroachments on, by Philip of France, ii. 94; battle of Spurs, 97. Fouqué, romances of, iii. 437. Francis I. of France, ii. 217; his invasion of Italy, ib.; gains the battle of Marignano, ib.; aspires to the crown of Germany, 229; defeated and taken prisoner at Pavia, 246.
Francis of Lorraine, consort of Ma- ria Theresa, iii. 9, 44, 53, 84. Francis II., emperor of Austria, iii. 180, 232; abdicates the Ro- man-Germanic empire, 235; re- newal of the war with Napoleon in 1809, 268, 269; battle of Esslingen, 271; Wagram, 272; treaty of Vienna, ib.; marriage of his daughter Maria Louisa to Napoleon, 297.
Franconian, Salic emperors of Ger- many, i. 364-445.
Franks, the, origin of, i. 112; na- tional character, 116.
Franz von Sickingen, ii. 234, 235. Fredegunda, mistress of Chilperich, i. 196-198.
Frederick the One-eyed, of Ho- henstaufen, i. 433; his courageous resistance to Leopold III., 438. Frederick Barbarossa, i. 446, 452; elected emperor, 457; his per- sonal appearance and character, ib.; his policy, 458; successful campaign in Italy, 459; permits the execution of Arnold of Bres- cia, ib.; insurrection at Rome, 460; return to Germany, and marriage, 461; pacification of the empire, 462, 463; second visit to Italy, 463; decrees for its government, 464, 465; revolt of the Italian cities, 465, 466; sieges of Crema and Milan, 466;
renewal of feuds in Germany, 467; maladministration and re- volt of Italy, 468, 469; defection of Henry the Lion, 474; defeat at Legnano, ib.; his interview with Alexander III., 475; war with Henry the Lion, 476, 477; heads the crusade, 484; his vic- tories over the Turks, 486; death, ib.; legendary fame, 487. Frederick of Hohenstaufen, ad- vancement of, i. 405.
Frederick, duke of Swabia, i. 479, 486, 487.
Frederick II., birth of, i. 497; minority, 498; marriage, 510; crosses the Alps and takes pos- session of the German empire, 512; performs the crusade, 518; enters Jerusalem, ib.; intrigues of the pope during his absence, 519; gaiety of Frederick's court in Italy, 520; his political aims, ib.; internal condition of Ger- many, 521; attempts to intro- duce the Inquisition, 526; usurp- ation of his son Henry, 529; marriage with Isabella of Eng- land, 530; decrees for the go- vernment of Germany, ib.; its internal condition, 532; invasion of the Tartars, 540; wars in Italy with the popes, 543-548; and in Germany, 549-553; his misfortunes and death, 555. Frederick the Warlike, of Austria, i. 531; his character, 532; en- mity to Frederick II., 543, 545; killed at Neustadt, 550. Frederick "of Austria," the com-
panion of Conradin, ii. 8-12. Frederick with the Bitten Cheek, ii. 82, 86, 87; regains his in- heritance, 92, 93, 114, 115. Frederick the Handsome of Habs- burg, ii. 108, 109; contests the empire with Louis of Bavaria, 116-122.
Frederick of Wolfenbüttel, ii. 148. Frederick III., ii. 183; marries Ele- onora of Portugal, 189; makes a
Frederick I., king of Prussia, ii. 506, 529.
Frederick William I., king of Prus-
sia, iii. 9; receives the Salzburg emigrants, 36, 37; his govern- ment, 43; ill-treatment of his son, 46, 47.
Frederick II., king of Prussia, iii. 49; invades and conquers Silesia, ib.; excellence of his adminis- tration, 54; makes preparation for the seven years' war, 58; in- vades Saxony, 59; defeated at Collin, 61; victorious campaign in Silesia, 63; battle of Zorn- dorf, 64; campaign of 1759, 65; bloody defeat at Cunnersdorf, 66; campaign of 1760, 68; battle of Torgau, 69; honourable close of the war, 72; internal government of his dominions, ib.; personal appearance, 75; his influence on the spirit of the times, ib.; writ- ings, 78; death, 96. Frederick William II., king of Prussia, iii. 96; imbecility of his government, 97; leagues with Austria against the French re- public, 158; his treachery to Po-
land, 174, 175; his selfish and short-sighted policy, 183; treaty with France, 186, 187. Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse Cas- sel, iii. 116.
Frederick, Margrave of Bayreuth, iii. 117.
Frederick William III., king of Prussia, iii. 200; attempts neu- trality in the war of Napoleon with Austria, 216, 232; driven to take arms, 238; condition of the Prussian army, 239; battle of Jena, 242; Eylau, 251; peace of Tilsit, 251, 252; reorganizes the government, 264, 265; de- graded position of Prussia, 310; war of liberation, 319; armistice of Pleisswitz, 326; battle of Leip- zig, 331; advance of the allied armies into France, 344; capitu- lation of Paris, 350; congress of Vienna, 353; return of Napo- leon, 356; his defeat and exile, 358-368; Holy Alliance, 368; the German confederation, ib.; the new constitution, 375; Ger- man Customs' Union, 388; pro- gress of Prussia, 422. Frederick, king of Wurtemberg, iii. 378.
Frederick William IV., king of Prussia, iii. 429.
Free-masonry, in the middle ages, ii. 63; its spread in the eigh- teenth century, 100. Fridigern, a chief of the Visigoths, i. 124, 127.
Friesland, freedom of its peasantry, ii. 68.
Frigga, the wife of Odin, i. 56. Fritz the Bad, ii. 193; defeats the emperor's confederates, 194; his marriage, ib.
GESATE, their march upon Rome, i. 65.
Gallas, General, ii. 365, 366, 381, 382, 387.
Gallienus, emperor, marriage of, i. 108.
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