italic> (Lipsia, 1728-1730), ii. dd.; where also are other
details.] Sure enough her poor Landgraf went crusading, Year 1227
(Kaiser Friedrich II.'s Crusade, who could not put it off longer);
poor Landgraf fell ill by the road, at Brindisi, and died,--not to
be driven farther by any cause.

Conrad, left guardian to his deceased Brother's children, had at
first much quarrel with Saint Elizabeth, though he afterwards took
far other thoughts. Meanwhile he had his own apanage, "Landgraf"
by rank he too; and had troubles enough with that of itself.
For instance: once the Archbishop of an Mainz, being in debt, laid
a heavy tax on all Abbeys under him; on Reichartsbronn, an Abbey
of Conrad's, among others. "Don't pay it!" said Conrad to the
Abbot. Abbot refused accordingly; but was put under ban by the
Pope;--obliged to comply, and even to be "whipt thrice" before the
money could be accepted. Two whippings at Erfurt, from the
Archbishop, there had been; and a third was just going on there,
one morning, when Conrad, travelling that way, accidentally stept
in to matins. Conrad flames into a blazing whirlwind at the
phenomenon disclosed. "Whip my Abbot? And he IS to pay, then,--
Archbishop of Beelzebub?"--and took the poor Archbishop by the
rochets, and spun him hither and thither; nay was for cutting him
in two, had hot friends hysterically busied themselves, and got
the sword detained in its scabbard and the Archbishop away.
Here is a fine coil like to be, for Conrad.

Another soon follows; from a quarrel he had with Fritzlar,
Imperial Free-Town in those parts, perhaps a little stiff upon its
privileges, and high towards a Landgraf. Conrad marches, one
morning (Year 1232) upon insolent Fritzlar; burns the environs;