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-- SEVENTH KURFURST, JOHANN GEORGE.
Kaiser Karl, we said, was very good to Joachim; who always strove, sometimes with a stretch upon his very conscience, to keep well with the Kaiser.

The Kaiser took Joachim's young Prince along with him to those Schmalkaldic Wars (not the comfortable side for Joachim's conscience, but the safe side for an anxious Father); Kaiser made a Knight of this young Prince, on one occasion of distinction; he wrote often to Papa about him, what a promising young hero he was,--seems really to have liked the young man.

It was Johann George, Elector afterwards, Seventh Elector .-- This little incident is known to me on evidence.

[Rentsch, p.
465.] A small thing that certainly befell, at the siege of Wittenberg (A.D.