Complex sentence: In an attempt to balance the scales, Nuremberg tried to bring the case up to other parties and charge the knights with "conspiracy and rebellion" and gained the ear of Emperor Maximilian "Verhandlungen zwischen der Stadt Nürnberg und der Fränkischen Ritterschaft".
Split into simpler sentences: In an attempt to balance the scales, Nuremberg tried to bring the case up to other parties and charge the knights with "conspiracy and rebellion". As the city spread word of the knights, it gained the ear of Emperor Maximilian "Verhandlungen zwischen der Stadt Nürnberg und der Fränkischen Ritterschaft".