Of the other six Kaisers not Hapsburgers we are bound to mention
one, and dwell a little on his fortunes and those of the family he
founded; both Brandenburg and our Hohenzollerns coming to be much
connected therewith, as time went on. This is Albert's next
successor, Henry Count of Luxemburg; called among Kaisers Henry
VII. He is founder, he alone among these Non-Hapsburgers, of a
small intercalary LINE of Kaisers, "the Luxemburg Line;" who
amount indeed only to Four, himself included; and are not
otherwise of much memorability, if we except himself; though
straggling about like well-rooted briers, in that favorable
ground, they have accidentally hooked themselves upon World-
History in one or two points. By accident a somewhat noteworthy
line, those Luxemburg Kaisers:--a celebrated place, too, or name
of a place, that "LUXEMBOURG" of theirs, with its French Marshals,
grand Parisian Edifices, lending it new lustre: what, thinks the
reader, is the meaning of Luzzenburg, Luxemburg, Luxembourg?
Merely LUTZELburg, wrong pronounced; and that again is nothing but
LITTLEborough: such is the luck of names!--

Heinrich Graf von Luxemburg was, after some pause on the parricide
of Albert, chosen Kaiser, "on account of his renowned valor," say
the old Books,--and also, add the shrewder of them, because his
Brother, Archbishop of Trier, was one of the Electors, and the
Pope did not like either the Austrian or the French candidate then
in the field. Chosen, at all events, he was, 27th November, 1308;
[Kohler, p. 274.] clearly, and by much, the best Kaiser that could
be had. A puissant soul, who might have done great things, had he
lived. He settled feuds; cut off oppressions from the REICHSTADTE
(Free Towns); had a will of just sort, and found or made a way for
it. Bohemia lapsed to him, the old race of Kings having perished