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TRIUMPH OF THE TIARA.
359
were, we are told, seized by the irresponsible tribunals,
summarily judged and condemned ;1 2 their property confis-
cated, and their names made infamous. “ A single day,”
says an historian of the times, “ was sufficient to carry
out the accusation, excommunication, final sentence, and
execution of the culprits. . . . The judgments given
without any prior notice, and admitting of no prepara-
tion for defence, were irrevocable; no appeal could be at-
tempted or made.”
The rebellion aroused by these butcheries compelled the
King of the Romans to convoke a Diet at Frankfort, and
the majority of the nobles and prelates met there April
the 10th, 1234. They loudly declared themselves to be
adverse to the ecclesiastic tyranny, reigning in blood and
confiscation, and proposed an appeal to the Pope.
Frederick, on hearing of the civil conflicts in Germany,
published an edict threatening punishment on whomso-
ever bore arms, if within a month he had not taken the
oath of loyalty to the Empire. He likewise cancelled
the notes of franchisement granted illegally by Henry,
and threatened the severest chastisement in case of dis-
obedience.
Henceforth Frederick and his son were at open war-
fare. Henry was in every respect guilty of the extremes
of disobedience, bad faith, and rebellion, but his name,
and indeed these very crimes, made him an invaluable
ally to the Guelph party. The Milanese went so far as to
offer him the iron crown of Italy, which they had perti-
naciously refused to his father for fifteen years. In the
year 1234, Anselm von Justingen, the chief marshal of
Henry, and Walter de Thaunberg, his chaplain, were
sent as his plenipotentiaries to Milan, where they were
met by the large majority of the delegates from the con-
federate cities and their allies.
A definitive treaty was settled December the 7th; the
1 Ann. 1233. Propter veras heereses et propter fictas, multi nobiles
et ignobiles clerici, burgenses, rustici perierunt. Godefr. Colon., p. 365,
15 Julii, 1233. Reg. Gregor., Lib. vii., p. 244.
2 Godefr. Colon., p. 265.
359
were, we are told, seized by the irresponsible tribunals,
summarily judged and condemned ;1 2 their property confis-
cated, and their names made infamous. “ A single day,”
says an historian of the times, “ was sufficient to carry
out the accusation, excommunication, final sentence, and
execution of the culprits. . . . The judgments given
without any prior notice, and admitting of no prepara-
tion for defence, were irrevocable; no appeal could be at-
tempted or made.”
The rebellion aroused by these butcheries compelled the
King of the Romans to convoke a Diet at Frankfort, and
the majority of the nobles and prelates met there April
the 10th, 1234. They loudly declared themselves to be
adverse to the ecclesiastic tyranny, reigning in blood and
confiscation, and proposed an appeal to the Pope.
Frederick, on hearing of the civil conflicts in Germany,
published an edict threatening punishment on whomso-
ever bore arms, if within a month he had not taken the
oath of loyalty to the Empire. He likewise cancelled
the notes of franchisement granted illegally by Henry,
and threatened the severest chastisement in case of dis-
obedience.
Henceforth Frederick and his son were at open war-
fare. Henry was in every respect guilty of the extremes
of disobedience, bad faith, and rebellion, but his name,
and indeed these very crimes, made him an invaluable
ally to the Guelph party. The Milanese went so far as to
offer him the iron crown of Italy, which they had perti-
naciously refused to his father for fifteen years. In the
year 1234, Anselm von Justingen, the chief marshal of
Henry, and Walter de Thaunberg, his chaplain, were
sent as his plenipotentiaries to Milan, where they were
met by the large majority of the delegates from the con-
federate cities and their allies.
A definitive treaty was settled December the 7th; the
1 Ann. 1233. Propter veras heereses et propter fictas, multi nobiles
et ignobiles clerici, burgenses, rustici perierunt. Godefr. Colon., p. 365,
15 Julii, 1233. Reg. Gregor., Lib. vii., p. 244.
2 Godefr. Colon., p. 265.