Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-06-19
THE HoHeNzoLLERNs
rhs First Person Of the Family OF whom
HIstory Takes Notice.


HIstory Takes Notice.
Names of persons. and OF course.
also Of families which are aggregations
of related persons, were derived III
early Saxon days mainly from two
sources. First. from personal quail
ties. physical characteristics or pro
fessions; and second, in the case OF I'M
portant personages from the names oil
their homes or estates.
Whoever is familiar with the writ
ings OF Sir Walter Scott-more parti-
cularly those of his tales whose SUD
iects are Scottish. will remember thar
he is given to calling his characters BY
the names of their estates or holdings
When nc had referred once to a PER-
sonage as the "laird o. TuilietudleIn.
the laird o. Dumbiedykes. the
laird o. Garscaddcn," and so on, he
was in the habit of dropping the early
part of the expression and speaking OF
them simply MS "Tullirtudlem. Dunn
biedykes." ..Garscadden,' etc. This
practice is carried on in Scotland even
Mt the present day, and was universal
in Saxon and Scandinavian countries
centuries ago. 1t is to this practice OF
naming persons and families from the
estate of holding that we are indebted
for the words 'Hohenzollcrn, BRAN
denburg, "Hapsburg, brunswick,
etc. as applied to reigning dynastles.
OF Conrad, the first person OF the
! Hohenzollern family to whom history
deigns to give notice. Thomas Carlyle,
in his .Erederick the Great" has
given an exquisite description. DE
says:
at was In those same years Cab 'ui
1l6O-1170) that stout young fellow
Conrad by name, far off in the south
ern part of Germany. set out from the
old castle Of Hohenzollern, where he
was but junior, and had small out
looks, upon a great errand in the
world. Hohenzollern lies fal
south in Schwaben (Suabia), on The
sunward slope of the Rauhe-Alp coun'
try. no great way north from Con
stance and its lake. but we'll aloft
near the springs Of the Danube, it:
back leaning on the Black Forest II
Is perhaps definable rs the southern
summit Of that same huge old Hercynl-
M Wood which is still called the
Sohwarzwald (Black ForesD, though
now comparatively bare of trees
F.lncifnl Dryasdust, doing little ETY.
mology, will tell you the name Zollcr'
is equivalent to Tollery. or place o
Tolls; whereby Hohcnzollern comes t.
to mean High or Upper Tollory. ant
gives one the notion of antique ped
dlers climbing painfully out of ltal
and the Swiss valleys, thus far; I'M
strapping their pack-horses here, am
chaffering in unknown. dialect abou
toll. Poor souls! it may be SO, but W
do not know, nor shall it concern us
This only is known: that human xii
dred, probably of some talent for C
ercing anarchy and guiding mankinf
had, centuries ago, built its burg ther,
aud done that function IN small BIT
creditable way ever since"
The original Hohenzollerners, ther,
fore. seven centuries ago were levier
OF toll vt some gateway or pass on
high roadway Of the Alps; and IT,
staying quality of the race is show
by their survival in an unbroken lin
to the present Emperor of German.
Frederick H., more than twenty gen
erations In lineal descent from ance
tor Conrad!-N. o. States.