This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more Got it! The pope then took refuge with Carlo Malatesta, lord of Rimini, through whom he presented his resignation to the council of Constance on the 4th of July Having established his daughter Margaret as regent for Charles in the Netherlands, Maximilian met the diet at Constance in , when the imperial chamber Reichskammergericht was revised and took a more permanent form, and help was granted for an expedition to Italy.
Having married Constance , daughter of Manfred of Beneventum, he came forward as the representative of the claims of the Hohenstaufen in Naples and Sicily against Charles, duke of Anjou. When the truce expired in , a permanent peace was ratified at Constance. Among the important matters which claimed his attention at Constance may be mentioned also the condemnation of the errors of Wycliffe and the trial of John Huss.
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Such were Heinrich Suso of Constance and Johann Tauler of Strassburg , the two most celebrated of his immediate disciples. The Church of England at least, emphasizing her own essential catholicity, retained in her translations of the ancient symbols the word catholic " instead of replacing it by " universal. Attempts have been made to improve submarine cables in this respect, and in a short cable " loaded " with Pupin coils was laid across Lake Constance. The signatories of the peace of Constance were divided between leaguers and imperialists.
The privileges confirmed to the Lombard cities by the peace of Constance were extended to Tuscany, where Florence, having War of ruined Fiesole, had begun her career of freedom and clues prosperity. Augustus, however, finding it too unwieldy, again divided it into three provinces, one of which was Belgica, bounded on the west by the Seine and the Arar Saone ; on the north by the North Sea; on the east by the Rhine from its mouth to the Lacus Brigantinus Lake Constance.
Of the laws of the Alamanni, who dwelt between the Rhine and the Lech, and spread over Alsace and what is now Switzerland to the south of Lake Constance , we possess two different texts. Trustworthy evidence, they said, proved to them that this pontiff accepted the dogma of the superiority of the council as it had been defined at Constance and at Basel.
