Excerpt from A Popular History of Germany, From the Earliest Period to the Present Day, Vol. 3The German Empire under the Salian (ghibelline) Emperors - Conrad II. - Burgundy. - Duke Ernest of Swabia. - The Fiefs of the Lower Nobles made Hereditary. - Opposition of the Princes of the Empire to Conrad's Policy. - Conrad's Campaigns against the Poles, Hungarians, and Italians. The Feudal Constitution - The German Kingdom and the Counter Struggles of the Papacy. - King Henry III. - Hildebrand.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.