,.Q GERMANY 4:lo and punish him. To this he responded in vigorous appeals and
- hcrons, couched in the most msolent -^ -;*-? -J^^^^;
Ja^e towards both Pius and Nicholas. In October, 1461, Pms frJFriarMartin of Rotenburg to preach the faith and preserve he faithful from the errors of Sigismund and h,s 1^-™^ ^-^^^^^ orv and professing to believe that Martm was m personal danger, hSred an indufgence of two yea. and eighty ^^J^^^-f^^^^^ would render him assistance in his need. He also oidered he Tagistrates of NUrnburg to seize Gregory's P-P-ty and e.pel him or deliver him up for punishment. We next A^d Gregory aiding Diether, Archbishop of Cologne, m h.s f^^^'^^^J^^ over the unprecedented and extortionate demand of the Holy bee Tannates ; but Diether resigned, Sigismund made h.s i^ce, and Gregory was abandoned to his excommunication, even .he city of Surg withdrawing its protection. He then^-^^. ^'^ ^f J^ Bohemia with George Podiebrad, whom he served f ^lently as a controversialist, earning a special denunciation as a l^ereti °f ^he worst type from Paul IL, in U69 ; but Podiebrad died in 1471. Gregor?then went to Saxony, where Duke Albert protected him and rflected his reconciliation with Sixtus IV. He was absolved at Eafter, 1472, only to die in the following ^^;^^^^ ing a quarter of a century in ceaseless conibat wi h tl^e papa°>. If Gregory of Heimburg embodies the revolt of the ruling classes against Rome, Hans of Niklaushausen shows us the rest- Srspirft of opposition to sacerdotalism which was spreading among the lower strata of society. Hans BOheim was a wande- Wdfammer or fifer from Bohemia, who chanced to settle at Isi- Sf u^i:rn near Wi^zburg. He doubtless brought witti him t e revolutionary ideas of the Hussites, and he seems t^^^^^ ^"^*^'^^"; into an alliance with the parish priest and a Mendicant Friar or B 'hard He began to have revelations from the ^ irgm which Sted so exactly L popular wishes that crowds speedily began ratsemble to Usten to him. She instructed him to announce to • her people that Christ could no longer endure the pride, the avarice, et Struv. II. 187-366.-Waddmg. ann. 1461, No. 5. Kipoii Glassberger ann. 1462.
