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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xn. SEPT. 26, 1903.

THE HAPSBURGS AS EMPERORS OF GERMANY (9 th S. xii. 47, 91). The enumeration of titles given is certainly more than ordinarily explicit, several of them being usually expressed by &c. All the places named are, or have been, parts of the empire, some of them belonging to the more or less indepen- dent sovereigns whose estates have devolved, or are assumed to have devolved, upon the Imperial Crown. To go through the whole list, showing when and how they were acquired, might be both interesting and instructive, but, I fear, far too wide a subject for the pages of ' N. fc Q.' I will therefore just take seriatim the names given in italics.

Ramse among the kingdoms is apparently meant for Romae. It does not generally occur in the enumeration.

Ladomeriae. Galicia and Ladomeria (or Lodomeria) are always bracketed together, as they lay side by side just over the north boundary of Hungary and south-east of Prussia. They are both styled kingdoms.

Rascire. Rascia is the name borne since the ninth century by the north-east part of the old kingdom of Servia. It had been a province of Dalmatia. It also was called a kingdom, and during the fourteenth century was annexed by Hungary. It is now part of Servia.

^ Cumani.ie. There are two Cumanias. Nagy- Kumzag, or Great Cumania, is a district in Hungary lying on the Theiss. Kis-Kumzag, or Little Cumania, lies about Buda-Pest on the Danube.

Thekre is now called Teck.

Fereti (or Ferrette) on the Upper Rhine. It passed from the old French Counts of Ferrette in the fourteenth century by marriage of a Countess Joanna to a son of the Emperor Albert I. In the partition between Ferdi- nand and Charles V. it fell to the former, and was eventually reunited to the French Crown in 1660.

Kyburg. This ancient county is situated next to the district of Turgau in Switzerland. The town of Kyburg is not far from Zurich. The county formed part of the inheritance of Rudolf of Hapsburg.

Goeritz (or Goricz), in Italian Gorizia, is a district on the west of Illyria and north of Venice, north-west of Trieste. The old counts were styled counts of the empire. In the thirteenth century the county of Goeritz formed part of the duchy of Meran under Duke Meinhard. The Tyrol, which was the other part of the duchy, fell to Austria in 1366, Goeritz in 1499.

Anasum. I think this means the Anaxius or Anaxus Carnorura, a little torrent near

Feltre, north of Venice. It is called Anaxus, and the district is called the lordship " supra Anasum" in Gerard de Roo's annals of the house of Hapsburg, and its armorial is given as " Party per pale, 1, paly of four gu. and arg. ; 2, or, an eagle displayed sa."

Burgovise. A provincial marquisate of Bavaria which belonged to Charles, son of Ferdinand of Tyrol and of the beautiful Philippina Welser of Augsburg. It is now Burgau, and lies between Ulm and Augsburg.

Lusatise. Upper and Lower Lusatia lie between the Elbe and the Oder, in the north of Bohemia, south of Brandenburg and west of Silesia. Both are margraviates of the empire.

Portus Naonis (or Portenau) et Salinarum (Salins). This is the most ancient title of the Dukes of Austria. Portus Naonis was part of Carinthia (Karnthen), ^ and once within the jurisdiction of Venice in the patriarchate of Aquileia.

Salinse (Salins) was in the county of Bur- gundy (Franche Comte), and once held by the Dukes of Zahringen.

Perhaps this may suffice as a rough indica- tion of the localities. Of course, only the complete story of their acquisition can be quite satisfactory, but, unless undertaken as a whole, would be hardly worth the space it would occupy. The "etceteras" refer to such unnamed titles as Counts of Hohenburg, Nellenburg, Feldkirch, Brigantin, Sonnen- burg, Duke of Fori-Julii, &c.

With regard to the prelates, they were evidently contemporaries of Leopold ; the Archbishop of Strigonia, or Gran, on the Danube, was Metropolitan of Hungary. But I leave this part for some one else to answer.

CHEVRON.

The kings of Hungary have borne ever since 1138, and are still bearing, the title of " Rex Raniffi " (not Romne). Rama is, or rather was, situated in Servia proper, and comprised the topmost side valley off the right bank of the Narenta. In reality it was not a kingdom, but only a " zhupanate " under the Ban of Bosnia, and for centuries formed an integral portion of the last-named country, although sometimes they are both mentioned separately, as, e.f/.j in a deed of 1244, thus, " Paterinos in Bosnam et in terrain Rame." Colocensis (not Colocencis) et Bac/aensis (not Bacien^is) is meant for the Archbishop of Kalocsa and Bacs ; Strigomensis (not Strigonensis), for the Archbishop of Gran, the Primate of Hungary.

L. L. K.

Here are some of the identifications sought. Lodomeria, part of the Austrian " kingdom