King Vladislaus for the Bohemian-Silesian Duchy of Jagerndorf;
which had just then, by failure of heirs, lapsed to the King.
This also Vladislaus, the beneficent cashless Uncle, liking George
more and more, permitted to be done. And done it was; I see not in
what year; only that the ultimate investiture (done, this part of
the affair, by Ludwig OHNE HAUT, and duly sanctioned by the
Kaiser) dates 1524, two years before the fatal Mohacz business.

From the time of this purchase, and especially till Brother
Casimir's death, which happened in 1527, George resided oftener at
Jagerndorf than at Anspach. Anspach, by the side of Baireuth,
needed no management; and in Jagerndorf much probably required the
hand of a good Governor to put it straight again. The Castle of
Jagerndorf, which towers up there in a rather grand manner to this
day, George built: "the old Castle of the Schellenbergs" (extinct
predecessor Line) now gone to ruins, "stands on a Hill with
larches on it, some miles off." Margraf George was much esteemed
as Duke of Jagerndorf. What his actions in that region were,
I know not; but it seems he was so well thought of in Silesia, two
smaller neighboring Potentates, the Duke of Oppeln and the Duke of
Ratibor, who had no heirs of their body, bequeathed, with the
Kaiser's assent, these towns and territories to George: [Rentsch,
pp. 623, 127-131. Kaiser is Ferdinand, Karl V.'s Brother,--as yet
only KING of Bohemia and Hungary, but supreme in regard to such
points. His assent is dated "17th June, 1531" in Rentsch.]--in
mere love to their subjects (Rentsch intimates), that poor men
might be governed by a wise good Duke, in the time coming.
The Kaiser would have got the Duchies otherwise.

Nay the Kaiser, in spite of his preliminary assent, proved