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Updated: May 26, 2025
The first arose from the quick and uncontrollable alarm of female sensitiveness; the last was owing to the shock inseparable from being presented with this vivid, palpable picture of Sigismund's close affinity with the family of an executioner.
It also burned John Huss as a heretic, and thereby left on Sigismund's hands a fierce rebellion among the reformer's Bohemian followers. The war lasted for a generation, and during its course all the armies of Germany were repeatedly defeated by the fanatic Hussites.
With his free and mirthful ways he carried all before him, and when presently it was plain to all that he could outdo our nimblest dancers, and was a master of each kind of dance which was held in favor at every court, whether of Brandenburg, of Saxony, of Bohemia, or at our own Emperor Sigismund's Hungarian court, he was ere long entreated to show us some new figures of the dance; nor was he loth to do so.
I am the kinsman and attendant of the Scottish King's sisters. 'Ah! one of them is to be married. My steward is with me. It is to him you should speak of her wardrobe, said Jaques Coeur, an impatient look stealing over his keen but honest visage. 'It is not of Duke Sigismund's betrothed that I would speak, returned the Scottish knight; 'it is of her sister.
But the procurator would not let him be set free, and refused to believe that his case was really a serious one. Sigismund's last hope left him.
"God be with you!" he replied, unable to check the tears which rained down as he thought of the life so sadly ended, and of his own bereavement. He heard no more. Sigismund's strength failed him, and I, to whom the darkness made no difference, watched him through the last dread struggle; there was no one to raise him, or hold him, no one to comfort him.
It is impossible to narrate here the story of Sigismund's journey, though it abounds with illustrations of his impulsive character and of the attitude of the western states toward the imperial pretensions.
And the sentence was not practically given, till the Congress of Vienna in our own day gave it; and the thing Johann Sigismund had claimed legally in 1609 was actually handed over to Johann Sigismund's Descendant in the seventh generation, after two hundred and six years. Handed over to him then, and a liberal rate of interest allowed.
Even Divucek, one of Sigismund's envoys, warned Hus, "Master, be sure that thou wilt be condemned."
But Sigismund's friends, and especially Frederick of Hohenzollern, urged him not to sacrifice the interests of Germany and of Christendom for the sake of a heretic. This advice, and the feeling that his personal reputation was staked on the success of the council, triumphed. Sigismund returned to Constance, and Huss remained a prisoner. From this moment John XXIII began to despair.
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