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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...of the council. Sigismund is said to have rebuked the pontiff's scandalous life, and the report went that for a payment of fifty thousand gold guldens he promised not to join in any attempt to unseat John.1 Thus the two great luminaries of this mundane sphere, as Sigismund wrote to Charles VI of France, were side by side, pope and emperor, appointed to rule--the one over the spiritual, the other over the material, affairs of the world. 1 At festivities given Sigismund at Innsbruck by Duke Frederick of Austria, ruler of the Tyrol, the daughter of a notable citizen was violated and the crime charged now to one, now to the other of these princes, both of whom denied it. For an account of his gallantries in Strassburg, see Wylie, p. 24. Falacky, Gesch., 3: 309 sqq., ascribes to the emperor some of the chivalric temper of his father, Charles IV. (Ecumenical councils had decided questions of heresy before, beginning with the first council, 325, held at Nice, which punished the heresy of Arius. Early in the spring of 1414, while sojourning at Friuli, in Lombardy, Sigismund commissioned Lord Wenzel of Duba, Henry Chlum of Lacembok, and Henry's nephew, John of Chlum on their return to Bohemia to propose to Huss that he refer his case to the council for adjudication without delay. At the same time, if we follow Peter of Mladenowicz's report, these noblemen brought assurances from the king that he would send Huss letters of safe-conduct both for the journey to Constance and the return journey to Bohemia. Huss's assent, which seems to have been given with alacrity, marked an epoch in his life and introduces its last chapters--his imprisonment and trial and his death at the stake. There can be no doubt that, though at times he may have shared the misgivings of friends f...