Sixty-three of the retainers of Lord Balne, one of the conspirators, though entirely innocent of the crime, and solemnly protesting their unconsciousness of any plot, were beheaded in one day.

Though but four persons took part in the assassination, and it was not known that any others were implicated in the deed, it is estimated that more than a thousand persons suffered death through the fury of the avengers.

Agnes, one of the daughters of Albert, endeavored with her own hands to strangle the infant child of the Lord of Eschenback, when the soldiers, moved by its piteous cries, with difficulty rescued it from her hands.
Elizabeth, the widow of Albert, with her implacable fanatic daughter Agnes, erected a magnificent convent on the spot at Koenigsburg, where the emperor was assassinated, and there in cloistered gloom they passed the remainder of their lives.

It was an age of superstition, and yet there were some who comprehended and appreciated the pure morality of the gospel of Christ.
"Woman," said an aged hermit to Agnes, "God is not served by shedding innocent blood, and by rearing convents from the plunder of families.

He is served by compassion only, and by the forgiveness of injuries." Frederic, Albert's oldest son, now assumed the government of the Austrian provinces.