[[40]] Which included the free towns of Strassburg and Basel and their bishops.

[[41]] V. Polheim and W. v. Waldenstein to Maximilian. Even if Frederick recovers, "werde er doch die fuesse nit mer mugen brauchen"; ... "hab in den zehen kain empfintlichait."—Vertraulicher Briefwecksel, p. 83.

[[42]] Sigismund was now a nonentity, living obscurely in his former dominions.

[[43]] For Maximilian's relations to internal reform, see Appendix.

[[44]] Janssen, i. 586.

[[45]] Huber, iii. p. 338.

[[46]] Creighton's Papacy, i. p. 277.

[[47]] December 31, 1510. For a most beautiful and touching letter of condolence from Margaret to Maximilian, see Le Glay, Correspondance, i. p. 481.

[[48]] Few people seem to have troubled themselves about Gian Galeazzo's infant son, who was now the lawful heir of the Sforza.

[[49]] For Maximilian's efforts towards war against the Turks, see Ulmann, i. pp. 203-218.