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Albert, who was a Minnesinger, was loyal to the declining fortunes of the Hohenstaufen, and afterwards supported his brother-in-law, Rudolph of Habsburg, in his efforts to obtain the German throne.

Vogelweid, the Minnesinger, When he left this world of ours, Laid his body in the cloister, Under Wurtzburg's minster towers.

Then came his relation of romantic wanderings in Southern France and Germany, like a troubadour, or minnesinger, with guitar and song; of his accidental friendships and fancy fraternities, till he became choir-alto at a Lutheran church in the heart of the Eichen-Land.

Minnesinger, min′e-sing′ėr, n. one of a school of German amatory lyric poets in the 12th and 13th centuries, mostly of noble birth.

At this stage the guitar fiddle possesses the essential features of 705 the violin, and may justly claim to be its immediate predecessor1 not so much through the viols which were the outcome of the Minnesinger fiddle with sloping shoulders, as through the intermediary of the Italian lyra, a guitar-shaped bowed instrument with from 7 to 12 strings.