[[24]] A free Imperial city.
[24a] Vertr. Briefwechsel, p. 68.
[[25]] As a matter of fact, Flanders was a fief of the French Crown.
[[26]] If we except his coronation.
[[27]] Maximilian was represented by Wilhelm v. Polheim, his confidential agent in Brittany.
[[28]] To be more exact, the Pope had promised the dispensation: it was not actually published till December 16, 1491.
Anne's matrimonial experiences form one of the most disgraceful incidents in all history. The shameless manner in which the Papacy issued this dispensation is only surpassed by the later bull which released Louis XII. from his virtuous though childless wife Jeanne, that he might marry Anne of Brittany.
[[29]] Battle of Dournon, January 23, 1493, in which 4-5,000 French horse were defeated by Kappeller and his Germans, inferior in number, but possessed of cannon. They held a hollow way and withstood the repeated charges of the French cavalry.—Ulmann, Kaiser Maximilian I., i. 169.