le concile de Constance, held between 1414 and

elected Martin V. to the papal chair, and condemned to death Huss and Jérôme of Prague. The town of Constance is in Baden, on the south bank of the lake of the same name.

3. Sigismond, born in 1368, and crowned kiug of Hungary in 1387, was emperor of Germany from 1411 to 1437. He disgraced himself by allowing John Huss to be put to death in spite of the letters of safe-conduct he had granted him.