Historically significant events in Europe between 1404 and 1438

[Helmut Winkler]

The last few posts in this thread tell us a lot about what is wrong in much of Voynich research. It is the inability or unwillingness to check some simple facts. The Deutsche Königswahl is one of the most and best researched topics in Medieval History. Even Wikipedia gets most of it right.

Sigismund lost the election against Jobst by the seven Kurfürsten, but won it, because J. suddenly died a short time later and became through this election Rex Romanorum, he was later, as was necessary crowned Emperor by the pope.

One would expect that someone who writes about these things would at least read the (German) wikipedia article about Sigismund, but no ...