The network determined to gamble on solely one more season, but they might have regretted that selection. Inside the electoral school the duke was vigorously supported by his brother-in-regulation Frederick of Saxony and was elected unanimously on February 2, 1440. The selection of Frederick tightened the hold of the Habsburgs on the German kingship. The upsurge of feeling took the negative form of a rising resentment of the German minority, which dominated the towns by virtue of its financial ...