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But in the meantime the emperor, influenced by others as well as

by motives of his own, had refused the investiture to the new

duke, and ordered him to leave in sequestration, the states which

had been the subject of contention; promising, after he should

have heard both parties, to give it to the one whom he should

deem justly entitled to it. The Duke of Nevers would not submit

to these conditions.