After an uneventful flight from Scotland and a night spent in a small backstreet hotel quaintly named " The broken kolbold" I walked through the pedestrianised main shopping thoroughfare towards the Duke's Palace. My appointment was at noon and I was determined to be on time...
The current Duke's archivist was most welcoming and showed me into the Palace Library situated at the end of a corridor hung with portraits old and new. He kindly showed me the baroque and somewhat antiquated cataloging system and then excused himself as he had business with the Duke .
Left alone, I finally located the folios and chronicle volumes I needed
for my research. I opened the one marked with the monogram of Duke Georg and was immediately transported by the contents to the Duchy of the 1730s . I opened my laptop and began to transcribe the faint brown scrawl which lay before me...
for my research. I opened the one marked with the monogram of Duke Georg and was immediately transported by the contents to the Duchy of the 1730s . I opened my laptop and began to transcribe the faint brown scrawl which lay before me...
It is often said that in the latter years of his life, Prinz Ferdinand Augustus, Elector of Teutonburg-Fredonia, reflected with considerable satisfaction on the events of 1731, and what he called "the Tradgardland menace"! He had a respect for Duke Georg, as a noble adversary, but I wonder if the history books have been kind...
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