Ludwig the Bavarian reigned thenceforth,--though never on easy
terms. How grateful to Friedrich of Nurnberg we need not say.
For one thing, he gave him all the Austrian Prisoners;
whom Friedrich, judiciously generous, dismissed without ransom
except that they should be feudally subject to him henceforth.
This is the third Hohenzollern whom we mark as a conspicuous
acquirer in the Hohenzollern family, this Friedrich IV., builder
of the second story of the House. If Conrad, original Burggraf,
founded the House, then (figuratively speaking) the able Friedrich
III., who was Rudolf of Hapsburg's friend, built it one story
high; and here is a new Friedrich, his Son, who has added a second
story. It is astonishing, says Dryasdust, how many feudal
superiorities the Anspach and Baireuth people still have in
Austria;--they maintain their own LEHNPROBST, or Official Manager
for fief-casualties, in that country:--all which proceed from this
Battle of Muhldorf. [Rentsch, p. 313; Pauli; &c.] Battle fought on
the 28th of September, 1322:--eight years after BABBOCKBURN; while
our poor Edward II. and England with him were in such a welter
with their Spencers and their Gavestons: eight years after
Bannockburn, and four-and-twenty before Crecy. That will date it
for English readers.

Kaiser Ludwig reigned some twenty-five years more, in a busy and
even strenuous, but not a successful way. He had good windfalls,
too; for example, Brandenburg, as we shall see. He made friends;
reconciled himself to his Brother Kur-Pfalz and junior Cousinry
there, settling handsomely, and with finality, the debatable
points between them. Enemies, too, he made; especially Johann the
Luxemburger, King of Bohemia, on what ground will be seen shortly,