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Prinzenraub
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Stealing of the princes), name given to an attempt, to satisfy a private grudge of his, on the part of Kunz von Kaufingen to carry off, on the night of the 7th July 1455, two Saxon princes from the castle of Altenburg, in which he was defeated by apprehension at the hands of a collier named Schmidt, through whom he was handed over to justice and beheaded. See Carlyle's account of this in his "Miscellanies."
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Prinzenraub'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/prinzenraub.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Prinzenraub'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/prinzenraub.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
