Herman de Salza at their head. They were dismissed with contempt; and
their master was again placed under the greater excommunication with
the Albigensians, the Poor Men of Lyons, the Arnoldists, and other
heretics who, in the eyes of the faithful, were the worst enemies of
the Christian church. Such was the reward of the man who had done more
toward the reëstablishment of the Latin kingdom in Palestine than had
been done by the lion-hearted Richard, and who, it may fairly be said,
had done it without shedding a drop of blood.




RISE OF THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE

A.D. 1241

H. DENICKE[59]



Trade trusts, which have attained so large a growth in our
day, are not an original product of the present age. The
Hanseatic League, or _Hansa_--the word meaning a society,
union--was the first trust of which we have authentic
record. It began about A.D. 1140, but the league was not
signed until 1241. It was first called into being to protect
the property of the German merchants against the piratical
Swedes and other Norsemen, but presently became submerged in
a combination of certain cities to enlarge and control the
trade of each country with which they had commerce. So