CHAPTER I.-- KURFURST FRIEDRICH I.
Burggraf Friedrich, on his first coming to Brandenburg, found but a cool reception as Statthalter.

[_"Johannistage"_ (24 June) "1412," he first set foot in Brandenburg, with due escort, in due state; only Statthalter (Viceregent) as yet: Pauli, i.

594, ii.

58; Stenzel, _Geschichte des Preussischen Staats_ (Hamburg, 1830, 1851), i.

167-169.] He came as the representative of law and rule; and there had been many helping themselves by a ruleless life, of late.