Karl, Grand Duke of Frankfurt, Royal Highness: In a Lecture at the Museum in Frankfurt

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and then I have not taken on superfluous work. Everything I have said in this writing is not flattery, not blinding praise, with which one often deals so wastefully; these are world-renowned, decided facts, these are irrefutable truths that have been tested, and are still being tested. I believe it will not be out of place here if I list the ancestors of our MOST ILLUSTRIOUS GRAND DUKE in descending order, to simultaneously make the close kinship with the LEARNED BISHOP OF WORMS, JOHANN VON DALBERG, visually clear.

1. Dieterich Kämmerer of Worms, called von Dalberg, a son of Wolfgang and brother of the Bishop of Worms, Johann von Dalberg. He married Anna von Helmstatt in 1495, daughter of Hanns and Gertraud von Pallant, who died in 1528. With her he fathered