Observations on the Dead Emperor Collected from Annals and Laws

Albert of Strasbourg for the same year, p. 114. That Rudolph denied the crime he had committed and contended he would clear himself by a duel, until the truth was extorted by interrogation. Duke John was finally thrust into a monastery after many transformations. Mutius, Book 22, Chronicle, p. 213; but the remaining accomplices of the crime, Ulrich of Palma and Walter of Eschenbach, remained in hiding for their whole lives. And although they enjoyed better fortune than the assassins of Julius Caesar—none of whom, according to Suetonius in Life of Julius Caesar, ch. ult., survived more than three years or died a natural death—they nevertheless passed their lives miserably. Fugger, Oesterreichische Ehrenspiegel Austrian Mirror of Honor for the same year, p. 258 and 264. Leopold, the son of Albert, wielded the sword of the avenger of his father's spirit more widely, slaughtering many of the conspirators and ravaging their castles, so that they might pay the penalties for their treason. The murder of

Frederick of Brunswick.

Frederick of Brunswick, whose legitimate election is still doubted, his brothers tried to avenge by war. And an old Saxon Chronicle narrates that Hartinghusium, an associate of the invaders, was captured by Duke Henry, cut into four parts, and placed upon the wheel in as many places; but it is mistaken. For when Emperor Rupert proved the innocence of Archbishop John of Mainz by oath, he passed judgment at Nuremberg in 1403 upon Hartinghusium and Falckenberg, by which they were condemned not to the ultimate punishment, but to this: that they shall dedicate and endow an eternal Mass and an altar—that for as long as they live, they shall never again be against those of Brunswick and their descendants, nor act against them—that they shall be in a tower—as long as we command, to bite [starve] from it and come out, and when they come out of the tower in this way, they shall have safe conduct to ride out of German lands and not come into Germany for 10 years, which shall follow one another immediately, the first 4 years without mercy, and the other 6 years they shall...