Upon Guastalla, Novellara, Bozzolo, and Castiglione, also fiefs of the empire, detached from the duchy of Mantua. Upon the whole of Montferrat, of which the duke of Savoy received the investiture at Vienna in 1708. Upon Piedmont, the investiture of which was bestowed by the emperor Sigismund on the duke of Savoy, Amadeus VIII. Upon the county of Asti, bestowed by Charles V., on the house of Savoy: the dukes of Savoy always vicars in Italy from the time of the emperor Sigismund. Upon Genoa, formerly part of the domain of the Lombard kings. Frederick Barbarossa granted to it in fief the coast from Monaco to Portovenere; it is free under Charles V., in 1529; but the words of the instrument are _In civitate nostra Genoa, et salvis Romani imperii juribus._ Upon the fiefs of Langues, of which the dukes of Savoy have the direct domain. Upon Padua, Vicenza, and Verona, rights fallen into neglect. Upon Naples and Sicily, rights still more fallen into neglect. Almost all the states of Italy are or have been in vassalage to the empire. Upon Pomerania and Mecklenburg, the fiefs of which were granted by Frederick Barbarossa. Upon Denmark, formerly a fief of the empire; Otho I. granted the investiture of it. Upon Poland, for the territory on the banks of the Vistula. Upon Bohemia and Silesia, united to the empire by Charles IV., in 1355. Upon Prussia, from the time of Henry VII.; the grand master of Prussia acknowledged a member of the empire in 1500. Upon Livonia, from the time of the knights of the sword. Upon Hungary, from the time of Henry II. Upon Lorraine, by the treaty of 1542; acknowledged an estate of the empire, paying taxes to support the war against the Turks. Upon the duchy of Bar down to the year 1311, when Philip the Fair, who conquered it, did homage for it. Upon the duchy of Burgundy, by virtue of the rights of Mary of Burgundy. Upon the kingdom of Arles and Burgundy on the other side of the Jura, which Conrad the Salian, possessed in chief by his wife. Upon Dauphiny, as part of the kingdom of Arles; the emperor Charles IV. having caused himself to be crowned at Arles in 1365, and created the dauphin of France his viceroy. Upon Provence, as a member of the kingdom of Arles, for which Charles of Anjou did homage to the empire. Upon the principality of Orange, as an arrière-fief of the empire. Upon Avignon, for the same reason. Upon Sardinia, which Frederick II. erected into a kingdom. Upon Switzerland, as a member of the kingdoms of Arles and Burgundy. Upon Dalmatia, a great part of which belongs at present wholly to the Venetians, and the rest to Hungary. PRIDE.