[_Calvin's Lat. Corresp._, Opera, tom. ix. p. 5.]
[142] The Elector of Saxony, John Frederic, had married Sibilla
of Cleves, who evinced the most noble character on the misfortune
of her husband, vanquished and dispossessed after the battle of
Mühlberg.
[143] It was not until the next year (1540) that a resolution was
adopted on this subject. The princes desired to use their influence
in favour of those who were suffering in France on account of
their religious opinions; but not before they had obtained correct
information regarding the state of affairs in that country, the
private inclinations of the king, and the probability that their
interference would prove successful.--Sleidan, xiii. p. 361.
[144] Martin Frecht, a learned preacher and theologian of the Church
at Ulm. He refused to submit to the _Interim_, and died the 14th
September 1556, at Tübingen.