 | Johann Kaspar Riesbeck - 1787 - 360 pages
...VII. the archbifhops of Mentz became powerful enough to be at the head of the empire.- In the i3th and i4th centuries, they were fo eminent, as to be...affiftance; and it was to one of them that the houfe of Hapfburg was indebted for itsfirft elevation. Since the boundaries of the two powers have been more... | |
 | Johann Kaspar Riesbeck - 1787 - 362 pages
...the VII. the archbifhops of Mentz became powerful enough to be at the head of the empire. In the i^th and i4th centuries, they were fo eminent, as to be able to make emperors without any foreign afliftance; and it was to one of them that the houfe of Hapfburg was indebted for itsfirft elevation.... | |
 | Wilhelm Render, William Render - 1801 - 424 pages
...centuries, the three bifhoprics, Mentz, Treves, 'and Cologne, were fo eminent as to be able • to to make emperors without any foreign affiftance ; and it .was to one of them that the houfe of Haplburg was indebted for its firft elevation. However, fmce the boundaries of the powers betwixt the... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1809 - 946 pages
...archbiihops of Mentz became powerful enough to be at the head of the empire. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, they were fo eminent, as to be able to...better of the fpiritual, the power and influence of the archbiihops of this place have of courfe been much reduced; ftill, however, they are pofiefled of very... | |
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Hapiburg was indebted for its firft elevation. Since the boundaries of the two powers have been more accurately afcertained, and the temporal has fo much got the better of the fpiritual, the power and influence of the... 