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552 GERMANY. [Tliurlngia.<br />

right, as alfo by virtue <strong>of</strong> the expedtancy <strong>of</strong> it which had been obtained in<br />

1 242 <strong>of</strong> the Emperor Frederick II. Upon this a war enfued, which was at<br />

length terminated in 1263 by means <strong>of</strong> a ftipulation ; by virtue <strong>of</strong> which<br />

theMarggrave Henry oi MeiJJen obtained the landgravate <strong>of</strong> Thuringia, and<br />

Henry <strong>of</strong> Brabant, Heße.<br />

Ever fiivce this time the Marggraves <strong>of</strong> Mcijfen, who afterwards became<br />

Eledlors oi Saxony, have been in p<strong>of</strong>fefTion <strong>of</strong> the landgravate <strong>of</strong> TVjwr/^^/t?,<br />

which was at one time divided among feparate Hnes, but returned again by<br />

the extindlion <strong>of</strong> the latter to that <strong>of</strong> Meißen, At length, however, by the<br />

divifion <strong>of</strong> the countries, made between the brothers Erneß and Albert,<br />

it fell to the {hare <strong>of</strong> the former. It continued veiled in his defcendents<br />

till the Eledor John Frederick, in 1547 l<strong>of</strong>t all his countries, which together<br />

with the eleäioral dignity, were conferred by the Emperor on Duke<br />

Maurice <strong>of</strong> the Albertine line ; but that Prince was obliged to cede certain<br />

countries among them which had been partly taken from out <strong>of</strong> Thiiringia,<br />

and partly out <strong>of</strong> the Ofler-lande, and <strong>of</strong> which hereafter a more accurate account<br />

(hall be given, to the children <strong>of</strong> 'John Frederick, in heu <strong>of</strong> the yearly<br />

revenue allowed them <strong>of</strong> 50,000 guldens.<br />

§. 5. The Elector <strong>of</strong> Saxony, it is true, has infifled on a voice on account<br />

<strong>of</strong> the landgravate <strong>of</strong> Thuringia in the council <strong>of</strong> the Princes <strong>of</strong> the Empire,<br />

but has always been refufed. The Dukes o^ Saxony <strong>of</strong> the Erneßine<br />

line were the parties who opp<strong>of</strong>ed it, and thefe alledged, that they had hitherto<br />

carried their voices fingly on account <strong>of</strong> the countries <strong>of</strong> 'Thuringia,<br />

for which reafon no general voice could take place on account there<strong>of</strong>.<br />

The Eledor <strong>of</strong> Saxony in reply to this fays, that the Erneßine lines were<br />

not p<strong>of</strong>lefTed <strong>of</strong> the whole landgravate, <strong>of</strong> Thuringia, but only <strong>of</strong> certain<br />

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