CHAPTER X.-- BRANDENBURG LAPSES TO THE KAISER.
Two years before the victory at Muhldorf, a bad chance befell in Brandenburg: the ASCANIER Line of Markgraves or Electors ended.
Magniloquent Otto with the Arrow, Otto the Short, Hermann the Tall, all the Ottos, Hermanns and others, died by course of nature; nephew Waldemar himself, a stirring man, died prematurely (A.D.

1319), and left only a young cousin for successor, who died few months after: [September, 1320 (Pauli, i.

391).

Michaelis, i.

260-277.] the Line of Albert the Bear went out in Brandenburg.