Speyer

With him we traveled for about a week, Brahms being our leader.

First we went to Speyer and then on by train to Karlsruhe, where we visited some of our artist friends, Lessing, Schirmer, Schroeter, who had removed thither from Dusseldorf.

At last we separated.

Towards the end of 1862 Brahms wrote, Basil, 1862.

On the 12th of January in Buchan and on the 17th of January in Basel, they were all burnt apart from their babies who were taken from them by the citizens and baptized.

They were burnt on the 21st of January in Messkirch and Waldkirch, on the 25th of January in Speyer, and on the 30th of January in Ulm, on the 11th of February in Uberlingen, on the 14th of February in the city of Strasbourg, where it took six days to burn them because of the numbers involved.

On the 16th of February in Mengen, on 19th of the month in Sulgen, on 21st in Schaffhausen and Zurich, on 23rd in St. Gallen, and on the 3rd of March in Constance, as described above, except for some who were kept back to be burnt on the third day after the Nativity of the Virgin, the 11th of September.

They were killed and burnt in the town of Baden on the 18th of March, and those in the castle below who had been brought there from Rheinfelden for protection were killed and then burnt.

I think I'm...

I will stay in Speyer, which is a really old, old city.

It's not too far away, maybe an hour from Kaiserslautern by train.

Yeah, and, um, yeah.

So going to, to Oldenburg this Wednesday for the match, for the cup match, and then next day to Speyer, and then on the match day to Kaiserslautern, back to Speyer, and then back to Berlin.

That's the plan-

Yeah

All who flocked to his support or had taken a hand in his election received lavish rewards.

The King of Bohemia, the Archbishop of Mayence, the Bishop of Metz and Speyer, the Bishop of Wurms, and many lesser supporters obtained welcome grants and gifts.

He now proceeded to strengthen his position by a foreign alliance which might be of great service should Odo prove a more formidable enemy than was anticipated by the Hohenstaufen party.

He accordingly marched to Vaucouleurs on the French boundary and there held a conference with the eldest son of Philip Augustus.

With a temporary peace in place, Catherine sought to bolster Valois interests and power by setting up several grand dynastic marriages.

In 1570, King Charles IX married Elizabeth of Austria, daughter of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, in a proxy wedding in Speyer in modern-day Germany.

Catherine also sought a match between one of her sons and England's Elizabeth I, but this idea never took off.

She worked to replenish the family's connection with Philip II of Spain after his wife and her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, died in childbirth in 1568.

Later generations would call it the Martyrs' Synod.

In April 1529, the princes and cities of the Holy Roman Empire met at Speyer on the Rhine.

It was a bitter assembly.

The Lutheran princes and cities were so angry with the Catholic majority that they issued a formal protest, and that protest gave them a new name that would last for centuries.

They were offering land to people who would clear it and farm it well, and the Brethren had a reputation for doing exactly that.

Families sold what they could and set out with what they could carry.

Many of them followed the Danube, traveling down the river on rafts and riverboats, past towns and monasteries, and past the castles of bishops and dukes whose names were on the law that had been signed at Speyer.

They had built the houses themselves.

Few survivors remained.

Teveres, Speyer, Worms, Mayence, Cologne.

As thousands of bodies piled up, several Jewish communities chose the path of resistance of Masada, men slaughtering their wives and children, and then themselves.

Kalonymus ben Meshullam, one of our great piy- um, prayer writers, piyyutists, poets, was head of the community at Mayence, and he was one of them.

Here I stand and all that.

But there were two other important diets or imperial meetings in the 1520s that helped fill out the story, both in Speyer, southern Germany, one in 1526 and one in 1529.

The first Diet of Speyer in 1526 was in response to that diet in 1521 where Luther is condemned as an outlaw.

Remember, it's the pope who calls him a heretic.

The emperor calls him an outlaw, both damning.

And then prior to that first diet, the Ottoman Turks handed the West a defeat at the Battle of Mohacs.

The emperor was battling with the pope, and when the diet couldn't reach a settlement, a window was opened for other reform movements to grow and spread.

And so that second Diet of Speyer, this in 1529, was called by the emperor, and this time the emperor and the church took steps against these new movements.