one;--the elder Brother, our acquaintance, being Ludwig simply,
distinguishable too as KURFURST Ludwig, or even as Ludwig SENIOR
at this stage of the affair. Kurfurst Ludwig, therefore, Year
1349, washes his hands of Brandenburg while the quietus lasts;
retaining only the Electorship and Title; and goes his ways,
resolving to take his ease in Bavaria and the Tyrol thenceforth.
How it fared with him there, with his loving Gorgon and him, we
will not ask farther. They had always separate houses to fly to,
in case of extremity! They held out, better or worse, twelve years
more; and Ludwig left his little Boy still surviving him, in 1361.


SECOND, AND THEN THIRD AND LAST, OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.

In Brandenburg, the new Markgraf Ludwig, who we say is called "THE
ROMAN" (LUDWIG DER ROMER, having been in Rome) to distinguish him,
continued warring with the Anarchies, fifteen years in a rather
tough manner, without much victory on either side;--made his peace
with Kaiser Karl however, delivering up the REICHS-INSIGNIA;
and tried to put down the domestic Robbers, who had got on foot,
"many of them persons of quality;" [Michaelis, i. 282.] till he
also died, childless, A.D. 1365; having been Kurfurst too, since
his Brother's death, for some four years.

Whereupon Brandenburg, Electorship and all Titles with it, came to
Otto, third son of Kaiser Ludwig, who is happily the last of these
Bavarian Electors. They were an unlucky set of Sovereigns, not
hitherto without desert; and the unlucky Country suffered much
under them. By far the unluckiest, and by far the worst, was this
Otto; a dissolute, drinking, entirely worthless Herr; under whom,