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Leipzig, 351; of Lützen, 358; the
Heilbronn Confederacy, 361-
364; Bernard von Weimar, 333-
380; battle of Nordlingen, 368;
General Banner, 373-384; Tor-
stenson, 384-388; John von
Werth, 361-391; peace of West-
phalia, 392-397; state of Ger-
many at the close of the war,
396, 397.

Thorismund, king of the Visigoths,

i. 140; slain by his brother, 170.
Tieck, Ludwig, iii. 437.
Tilly, Count von, ii. 323, 337;
storming and sack of Magdeburg,
349; defeated at Leipzig by Gus-
tavus Adolphus, 351; death, 354.
Torstenson, general of the Swedes,
ii. 386; defeats the imperialists
at Leipzig, 387; his campaign
in Denmark, ib. ; advance to
Vienna, 338.

Totilas, king of the Ostrogoths, i.
185.

Tournaments of the middle ages,
ii. 53.

Trident, council of, ii. 263-266.
Tugendbund, the, iii. 265, 308.
Turenne, ii, 389, 391, 465, 481,
482.

Turks, the, their invasion of Hun-
gary and siege of Vienna, ii. 492
-497.

Tyrolese, revolt of the, against Ba-
varia and France, iii. 275; Hofer,
277-293; Speckbacher, 279-
293.

ULDES, prince of the Huns, i. 129.
Ulphilas, bishop, Gothic translation
of the Bible by, i. 125, 146.
Ulrich of Ratisbon, i. 447.
Urban V., pope, ii. 134.
Utrecht, peace of, iii. 5.

VADOMAR, a leader of the Alemanni,
i. 111.

Valens, emperor of Rome, i. 125,

126.

Valentinian III., emperor of Rome,
i. 133, 139, 142.

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| Vandals, the, their irruption into
Spain, i. 131.

Van Tromp, Admiral, ii. 474.
Varingi, or Gothic mercenaries of
Rome, i. 126.

Varus, defeat of the Romans un-
der, i. 84.

Velleda the prophetess, i. 97.
Vendôme, Marshal, ii. 520-530.
Versailles, treaty of, in 1756, iii. 57.
Victor Amadeus, duke of Savoy, ii.
519-530.

Victoria Alexandrina, queen of
England, iii. 420.

Vienna, siege of, by the Turks, ii.
493; its character under Charles
VI., iii. 14.

Villars, Marshal, ii. 498-530.
Villeroi, Marshal, ii. 519, 520, 523.
Virgin Mary, poetry and legends
on, in the middle ages, ii. 34.
Viticabius, leader of the Alemanni,
i. 111.
Vitigis, king of the Ostrogoths, i.
183.

Voltaire, influence of the writings
of, iii. 46; intimacy with Fre-
derick II., 54.

WALDAMARA, widow of Winithar,
i. 124.

Waldemar II., king of Denmark, i.
522.

Walhalla, the, i. 22, 45, 54; de-
scription of, 56.
Walkyren, or celestial women of
the ancient Germans, i. 45, 56.
Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, ii.
336; his rise, 337; victories in
Northern Germany, 341; his dis-
missal, 344; second command,
356; defeated at Lützen, 358;
his secret negotiations, 364; be-
trayal and assassination, 365.
Wallia, king of the Goths, i. 133.
Walram von Limburg, i. 497.
Walther Sensavehor, a leader of the
crusades, i. 412-414.
Walther, Count de Brienne, i. 498.
Walther von der Vogelweide, the
Minnesinger, i. 522, 531, ii. 57.

Warnefried, Paul, the historian of
Lombardy, i. 232, 254.
Weimar, Bernard von, ii. 333, 355;
his gallantry at Lützen, 359;
succeeds to the command of the
Protestant army, 360, 361; de-
feated at Nordlingen, 369; visits
Paris, 372; campaigns in Bur-
gundy and on the Upper Rhine,
377, 378; death, 380.

Welf of Bavaria, i. 445, 446; joins
the crusades, 452; his return and
revolt, 456; death, 472.
Wellington, Duke of, iii. 300; his
victories in the Peninsula, 300,
346; Quatrebras and Waterloo,
358.

Wenzel, king of Bohemia, ii. 88,
89, 91.

Wenzel, emperor of Germany, ii.
141; his character, 142; inca-
pacity, 146, 148; dethroned, 149;
retains the crown of Bohemia,
149, 155-167.

Wergeld of the ancient Germans,
i. 33.

Werner, Count von Homburg, ii.
112.

Wernherr von Stauffach, ii. 102.
Westphalia, peace of, ii. 393–397.
William the Conqueror, i. 390; his
invasion of England, 391.
William, son of Robert, duke of
Normandy, i. 440.

William the Rude, Count of Hol-
land, usurps the empire, i. 550,
552; driven in contempt from
the empire, ii. 5; his wretched
end, 6.

William of Cologne, his school of
painting, ii. 39.

William of Juliers, canon of Mæs-

tricht, ii. 97; commands the
Flemings at the battle of Spurs,
ib.; honourable death at Mons-
en-puelle, 99.
William Tell, story of, ii. 103-105.
William of Orange, ii. 289; his

flight from the Netherlands, 291;
campaigns against Alba, 293,
294; elected stadtholder, 296;
assassinated, 302.

William von der Mark, ii. 294, 296.
William, Prince of Orange, ii. 480;
his accession to the throne of
England, 499.

William, duke of Brunswick, iii.
274.

William, king of Wurtemberg, iii.
379, 380.

William, Elector of Hesse Cassel,
iii. 381.

William, Elector of Hesse, iii. 402,
403.

Willigis, archbishop of Mayence, i.
347, 352.

Winithar, prince of the Ostrogoths,
i. 124.

Wittekind, duke of Westphalia,
his brave resistance to Charle-
magne, i. 234-237; submission,
237; death, 239.
Wittenagemot, the, i. 24.
Wolen, or prophetesses of the an-
cient Germans, i. 44.

Worms, diet of, under Charles V.,
ii. 230.

Wrangel, general of the Swedes,
ii. 388, 390.

Wullenweber, Jürgen, president of
the Hansa, ii. 257, 258.
Wycliffe, ii. 155.

Ziethen, general of the Hussars,
under Frederick II., iii. 69.
Zinzendorf, Count, iii. 55; founds
the Moravian Brethren, 131, 132.
Zizka, John, commands the Huss-
ites, ii. 166; his war of exter-
mination, 171; victories over
the imperial party, 172; death,
174.

Zschokke, servile tendency of his
writings, iii. 257, 262, 297.
Zwingli, Ulric, of Toggenburg, ii.
233-253.

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