As indeed were both the Brothers, for that matter; always, together or in succession, a kind of right-hand to Sigismund.

Friedrich the younger Burggraf, and ultimately the survivor and inheritor (Johann having left no sons), is the famed Burggraf Friedrich VI., the last and notablest of all the Burggraves.

A man of distinguished importance, extrinsic and intrinsic; chief or among the very chief of German public men in his time;--and memorable to Posterity, and to this History, on still other grounds! But let us not anticipate.
Sigismund, if apanaged with Brandenburg alone, and wedded to his first love, not a King's Daughter, might have done tolerably well there;--better than Wenzel, with the Empire and Bohemia, did.

But delusive Fortune threw her golden apple at Sigismund too; and he, in the wide high world, had to play strange pranks.

His Father-in-law died in Hungary, Sigismund's first wife his only child.