See also Dr.
Kapp, _Erinnerungen an diejenigen Markgrafen &c._ (a reprint from the _Archiv fur Geschichte und Alterthumskunde in Ober-Franken,_ Year 1841).] His death brought huge troubles upon Baireuth and the Family Possessions.

So many neighbors, Bamberg, Wurzburg and the rest, were eager for retaliation; a new Kaiser greedy for confiscating.

Plassenburg Castle was besieged, bombarded, taken by famine and burnt; much was burnt and torn to waste.

Nay, had it not been for help from Berlin, the Family had gone to utter ruin in those parts.

For this Alcibiades had, in his turn, been Guardian to Uncle George's Son, the George Friedrich we once spoke of, still a minor, but well known afterwards; and it was attempted, by an eager Kaiser Ferdinand, to involve this poor youth in his Cousin's illegalities, as if Ward and Guardian had been one person.
Baireuth which had been Alcibiades's, Anspach which was the young man's own, nay Jagerndorf with its Appendages, were at one time all in the clutches of the hawk,--had not help from Berlin been there.