Note 127 — Chapter VII · THE LAST OF THE PALEOLOGI AND THE FIRST OF THE AUTOCRATS
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Schiemann; Voigt; Geschichte der Ostseeprovinzen.
Note.—The German branch of the Order elected a new Grand-Master after the defection of Albrecht, and continued, at Mergentheim in Franconia, its existence as a religious organisation, till the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the Napoleonic maelstrom swept it away in common with many other worn-out institutions.