Sigismund Crowned King of Germany
1412
The Hungarian Luxembourg, fluent in half of Europe's languages and bankrupt in all of them, added the German crown to his collection. He would spend the next two decades trying to unite Christendom, suppress the Hussites, and keep the Ottomans out of the Danube. He mostly failed. His extraordinary diplomatic energy made him the most traveled medieval emperor, attending councils from Constance to London.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.