No other Elector held them both, for nearly a hundred years; nor
then, except as it were for a moment. The two countries,
Electorate and Principality, Hohenzollern both, and constituting
what the Hohenzollerns had in this world, continued intimately
connected; with affinity and clientship carefully kept, up, and
the lesser standing always under the express protection and as it
were COUSINSHIP of the greater. But they had their separate
Princes, Lines of Princes; and they only twice, in the time of
these Twelve Electors, came even temporarily under the same head.
And as to ultimate union, Brandenburg-Baireuth and Brandenburg-
Anspach were not incorporated with Brandenburg-Proper, and its new
fortunes, till almost our own day, namely in 1791; nor then either
to continue; having fallen to Bavaria, in the grand Congress of
Vienna, within the next five-and-twenty years. All which, with the
complexities and perplexities resulting from it here, we must, in
some brief way, endeavor to elucidate for the reader.


TWO LINES IN CULMBACH OR BAIREUTH-ANSPACH: THE GERA BOND OF 1598.

Culmbach the Elector left, at his death, to his Second Son,--
properly to two sons, but one of them soon died, and the other
became sole possessor;--Friedrich by name; who, as founder of the
Elder Line of Brandenburg-Culmbach Princes, must not be forgotten
by us. Founder of the First or Elder Line, for there are two
Lines; this of Friedrich's having gone out in about a hundred
years; and the Anspach-Baireuth territories having fallen home
again to Brandenburg;--where, however, they continued only during
the then Kurfurst's life.;ohann George (1525-1598), Seventh