Taken by surprise and overpowered by numbers, they fled in all directions, and Rodolph, accompanied only by a remnant of his army, escaped with difficulty into Saxony.

Suabia was now at the mercy of the victor.
Tidings of this disastrous defeat had not yet reached the Lady Margaret.
The scanty intelligence she could occasionally glean was not such as to brighten the melancholy caused by the absence of her father and brother.

Her fears thickened daily, as rumor, for once unable to exaggerate, divulged the massacres and impieties of the old imperialists.

Her only relief was in the Sacraments, administered by the saintly Herman, and in prayer.

The wives of the yeomen, not knowing when to expect the enemy, sought shelter in the castle with their parents and children.