The 1906 caption reads:"Henry the LIon kneels to Barbarossa. Barbarossa’s turn did not come until years later. He was defeated in Italy, through Henry’s defection. Returning to Germany he declared Henry a traitor, and after a long war crushed him to submission. Henry knelt at his monarch’s feet in despair, but they had been friends in youth, and remembering this, Frederick pardoned his subjugated vassal and restored part of his former possessions."

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