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THE LIFE OF BISMARCK, PRIVATE AND POLITICAL.

“Mit Gott für König und Vaterland.”


[Illustration: COUNT OTTO VON BISMARCK.]


THE LIFE OF BISMARCK,
PRIVATE AND POLITICAL;

With Descriptive Notices of His Ancestry.

by

JOHN GEORGE LOUIS HESEKIEL,

Author of “Faust and Don Juan,” etc.

Translated and Edited,
With an Introduction, Explanatory Notes, and Appendices,
by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, F.S.A., F.A.S.L.

With Upward of One Hundred Illustrations by Diez, Grimm,
Pietsch, and Others.






New York:
Harper & Brothers, Publishers,
Franklin Square.
1870.




CONTENTS


    EDITOR’S PREFACE.                                              Page xv

                             Book the First.

                      THE BISMARCKS OF OLDEN TIME.

                               CHAPTER I.

                            NAME AND ORIGIN.

    Bismarck on the Biese.—The Bismarck Louse.—Derivation of the
    Name Bismarck.—Wendic Origin Untenable.—The Bismarcks in
    Priegnitz and Ruppin.—Riedel’s Erroneous Theory.—The Bismarcks
    of Stendal.—Members of City Guilds.—Claus von Bismarck of
    Stendal.—Rise of the Family into the Highest Rank in the
    Fourteenth Century.                                                 31

                               CHAPTER II.

                     CASTELLANS AT BURGSTALL CASTLE.

                              [1270-1550.]

    Rulo von Bismarck, 1309-1338.—Excommunicated.—Claus von
    Bismarck.—His Policy.—Created Castellan of Burgstall,
    1345.—Castellans.—Reconciliation with Stendal, 1350.—Councillor
    to the Margrave, 1353.—Dietrich Kogelwiet, 1361.—His White
    Hood.—Claus in his Service, while Archbishop of Magdeburg.—The
    Emperor Charles IV.—The Independence of Brandenburg
    threatened.—Chamberlain to the Margrave, 1368.—Subjection
    of the Marks to Bohemia, 1373.—Claus retires into Private
    Life.—Death about 1377.—Claus II., 1403.—Claus III. and
    Henning.—Friedrich I. appoints Henning a Judge.—Ludolf.—His
    Sons.—Pantaleon.—Henning III. _obiit circâ_ 1528.—Claus
    Electoral Ranger, 1512.—Ludolf von Bismarck.—Electoral Sheriff
    of Boetzow, 1513.—His Descendants.                                  36

                              CHAPTER III.

                            THE PERMUTATION.

                              [1550-1563.]

    Changes.—The Electoral Prince John George and
    Burgstall.—Forest-rights.—The Exchange of Burgstall for
    Crevese.—Schönhausen and Fischbeck.—The Permutation completed,
    1563.                                                               50

                               CHAPTER IV.

                      THE BISMARCKS OF SCHÖNHAUSEN.

                              [1563-1800.]

    Further Genealogy of the Bismarcks.—Captain Ludolf von
    Bismarck.—Ludolf August von Bismarck.—His remarkable
    Career.—Dies in the Russian Service, 1750.—Frederick William
    von Bismarck.—Created Count by the King of Würtemberg.—Charles
    Alexander von Bismarck, 1727.—His Memorial to his Wife.—His
    Descendants.—Charles William Ferdinand, Father of Count Otto
    von Bismarck.                                                       57

                               CHAPTER V.

    Armorial Bearings.                                                  68

                               CHAPTER VI.

               THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF BISMARCK’S BIRTHPLACE.

    Genthin.—The Plotho Family.—Jerichow.—Fischbeck.—The
    Kaiserburg.—The Emperor Charles IV.—The Elector
    Joachim Nestor.—Frederick I.—General Fransecky “to the
    Front.”—Tangermünde