Historically significant events in Europe between 1404 and 1438

[Mark Knowles]

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 ...

Thanks for the information. It is great to get answers to questions and I will check out the German wikipedia article. Certainly any topic can be researched. I am not unwilling to research a given topic, though it depends how much effort is required to research it. It is not always clear as to where to look for answers to questions, but I raised this topic here to see what others had to say. In addition this was raised as part of a broader subject of history from 1404 to 1438.

I remember you expressing your opinion as to the level of knowledge about the Holy Roman Emperor, on Nick's website. I am not confident as to how much is known or survives of Sigismund, but I contacted what I understand to be the main archives holding his material and they said that they don't to the best of their knowledge have enciphered letters from his period, yet given that Rupert was writing ciphers he must have been too.

I think my research into diplomatic ciphers of the period is a testament to my thoroughness.