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450 GERMANY. [Mergeiithdm.<br />

to be all <strong>of</strong> them Germans, and <strong>of</strong> true ancient nobility. Pope Celeßine III.<br />

confirmed this order in 1191, fubjedling it to the rule <strong>of</strong> St. Augufiine.<br />

A like confirmation enfued alfo from the Emperor Henry VI. For its hrfl<br />

fuperior or head was ch<strong>of</strong>en Henry <strong>of</strong> Waldpott Bajfenheiw , to whom fucceedcd<br />

ii) the dignity <strong>of</strong> grand mafter Otto <strong>of</strong> Karpen, Henry Bart and<br />

Hermann oi Saha. The Saracens proving too powerful in Pakliitie the laftnientioned<br />

grand mafter retired from Jerufalcm to Venice, where he received<br />

an embafly from Duke Conrad <strong>of</strong> the Mafau, who applied to him and<br />

the Teiitonick order for afllftance againft the ethnical Frußiaits. The order<br />

<strong>com</strong>plied with the requefl <strong>of</strong> this embaily, the property <strong>of</strong> all lands wliich<br />

it lliould gain <strong>of</strong> the Pruffians being fecured to it by the ftipulations <strong>of</strong><br />

1226 and 1228, and the country <strong>of</strong> Culm and Dobrina likewife ceded to it.<br />

The grand mafters therefore removed firf? from Venice to Marburg., and<br />

aiterwards to Marienburg in Frnjfia. The order, indeed, gradually lubdued<br />

all Pruffia, Courland, Semigallia, and Livonia, but again l<strong>of</strong>t thefe<br />

countries. But the grand mafter -^/i^rfr/j/, Marggrave <strong>of</strong> £r

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