| | Petitions for Relief and the Dynamics of Pacification |
 | | At that moment the prince of East Frisia, Georg Albrecht, was on the brink of defeat in a bloody confrontation with the territorial Estates for control over tax administration. |
 | | The dominant tendency in East Frisia’s regional historiography is to argue that Brenneysen’s diagnosis simply reflected an alliance of interest and faith between patricians in the port city of Emden, who dominated the territorial Estates, and the rural Hausmannstand, especially those who lived and farmed in the loamy coastal lowlands, or «Marsch». |
 | | Underlying this explanation is a contrast with the poorer and predominantly Lutheran villages of the East Frisia’s sandy hinterlands, or «Geest». |
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