was intrinsically for a grandson of his own, and long line of
grandsons. The name of this temporary Statthalter, the first
Hohenzollern who had ever the least concern with Brandenburg,
is Burggraf Johann II., eldest Son of our distinguished Muhldorf
friend Friedrich IV.; and Grandfather (through another Friedrich)
of Burggraf Friedrich VI.,--which last gentleman, as will be seen,
did doubtless reap the sowings, good and bad, of all manner of men
in Brandenburg. The same Johann II. it was who purchased
Plassenburg Castle and Territory (cheap, for money down),
where the Family afterwards had its chief residence. Hof, Town
and Territory, had fallen to his Father in those parts; a gift
of gratitude from Kaiser Ludwig:--most of the Voigtland is
now Hohenzollern.

Kaiser Ludwig the Bavarian left his sons Electors of Brandenburg;
--"Electors, KURFURSTS," now becomes the commoner term for so
important a Country;--Electors not in easy circumstances. But no
son of his succeeded Ludwig as Kaiser,--successor in the Reich was
that Pfaffen-Kaiser, Johann of Bohemia's son, a Luxemburger once
more. No son of Ludwig's; nor did any descendant,--except, after
four hundred years, that unfortunate Kaiser Karl VII., in Maria
Theresa's time. He was a descendant. Of whom we shall hear more
than enough. The unluckiest of all Kaisers, that Karl VII.; less a
Sovereign Kaiser than a bone thrown into the ring for certain
royal dogs, Louis XV., George II. and others, to worry about;--
watch-dogs of the gods; apt sometimes to run into hunting instead
of warding.--We will say nothing more of Ludwig the Baier, or his
posterity, at present: we will glance across to Preussen, and see,
for one moment, what the Teutsch Ritters are doing in their new
Century. It is the year 1330; Johann II. at Nurnberg, as yet only