[65] "Il y a longtemps que François ont tousiours fait le piz qu'ilz ont peu a ceste maison, et n'ay espoir qu'ilz doyent changier," writes Chièvres to Maximilian 1506. [66] By violating the perpetual Landfriede. [67] Kirchberg, Weissenhorn, Marstetten, Neuburg-am-Inn, etc. [68] Catherine, paternal aunt of Maximilian, married Charles, M. of Baden, whose son James was. [69] Afterwards Adrian VI. [70] Yet the people, Maximilian is convinced, are always on his side, and a few of the Cantons; "mes en sumarum il sount meschans, villains, prest pour traïre France on Almaingnes" (dated August 18, Lindau).--Le Glay, _Correspondance_, vol. i., letter 3. [71] March 1, 1508, quoted Huber, iii. pp. 369, 370. [72] Le Glay, i. p. 68 (dated July 4). [73] Le Glay, i. p. 77 (dated July 23). [74] Bishop of Gurk. [75] Le Glay, i. letter 90 (dated Cambrai, December). [76] Le Glay, i.--letter 143 (dated October 7). [77] Le Glay, i.--letter 134 (Bassano, August 7). [78] Le Glay, i.--letter 192 (Augsburg, April 6, 1510). [79] Sanuto, x. 79, quoted by Huber, iii. 387. [80] Chmel's _Urkunden_, etc., p. 470 (May 31, 1511). [81] Le Glay, ii. p. 38--autograph letter, dated September 18, no year or place given. But A. Jäger, in _Kaiser Maximilians I. Verhältniss zum Papstthum_, p. 75, shows that 1511 was almost certainly the year. [82] Le Glay, ii. p. 84 (dated January 21, 1513). [83] Le Glay, Correspondance, vol. ii.--letter 554, page 221. [84] Le Glay, ii.--letter 555. [85] Le Glay, ii.--letter 556. [86] Kings of Hungary and Poland were brothers. [87] It is possible, however, that he was actuated by pique against his grandson, who had recently asserted his independence of control. (January 1515.) [88] Quoted in Brewer, _Reign of Henry VIII._, page 125. [89] Brewer, i. page 133. [90] Huber, iii. page 407. [91] Ala, Avio, Mori, and Brentonica. [92] The early years of Charles V.'s reign do not disprove this assertion. For, though it was an Imperialist army which was responsible for the Sack of Rome in 1527, this was entirely composed of mercenaries, and Charles's predominance in Italy was due to his position as King of Spain and the Sicilies, and was won by the pikes of his Spanish infantry. [93] He was called "Coeur d'Acier," by Olivier de la Marche. [94] He hoped to obtain from Leo X. full recognition of himself as crowned Emperor, and, further, the grant of a tithe on church property in Germany for his projected Crusade. [95] Bryce, _Holy Roman Empire_, page 126 (1st edition). {77} IV "The essence of Humanism is the belief ... that nothing which has ever interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitality."--_Walter Pater_.