or to acknowledge him for emperor, he was put to the ban of the empire, and lost his states. After the death of Henry, Conrad made his brother Leopold marquis of Austria and duke of Bavaria; who, dying without issue, was succeeded by his brother Henry XI., whom the emperor Frederic I. made duke of Austria, joining together the two counties above and below the Ens, and declaring them free and independent of the government of Bavaria. The same emperor gave Bavaria thus dismembered, with Saxony, to Henry the Lion, son of Henry the Proud. But Henry the Lion afterwards losing the favour of this emperor, was put to the ban of the empire; and lost all his possessions except Brunswick and Lunenburg, which still remain to his descendants. In 1180, the duchy of Bavaria was given by the emperor to Otho the landgrave of Wittelsbach, count-palatine of the house of Bavaria. In the time of this Otho, the castle of Scheyern was changed into a monastery, in which the duke was buried. From him are descended the two great families that remain to this day in Germany; viz. the counts-palatine of the Rhine, and the electors, now kings of Bavaria. Prince Eugene Beauharnois, stepson to Bonaparte, is married to a princess of this family. See BAVARIA, Supplement.