Piotr Nater
speaker
792 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Piotr Nater’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.
Appearances
About this time Cardinal Command
Mendone returned to Poland under the pretext of urging on the war against the Turks, but really to participate in the forthcoming royal election.
He became the rallying center of the Catholics and directed their choice to a member of the Orthodox house of Habsburg, Ernest, son of Maximilian II.
The Reformed, on their part, wished to place on the throne a native nobleman of their own faith, John Firlay, Grand Marshal of the Crown.
Thereby they not only excited the jealousy of the other great families, but also that of the Lutherans, who were not willing to concede preeminence to the Calvinists.
Here, then, as we have already seen so often, and as we shall see again, the lamentable divisions between Lutherans and Calvinists crippled the progress of the Reformation, prevented its victory, and paved the way most effectively for the Catholic reaction.
The opposition of the Protestants to the candidature of Archduke Ernest was so universal and pronounced that the Catholics became convinced of the impossibility of his election.
They and Commandone, therefore, began to turn to a climate for whom the French ambassador had long been actively at work, Henry of Anjou, brother of Charles II, of France.
It is true that the massacre of Saint Bartolomeu's Eve seemed to make him quite unacceptable by the Polish Protestants to
But the Duke's friends so positively asserted that the massacre had had purely political causes, and the Duke himself declared solemnly that he had taken no share at all in it, that the Protestants yielded at last on the condition that they should be allowed to enjoy full religious liberty and joined with the Catholics in electing Henry of Anjou to the throne of Poland.
On may ninth, fifteen seventy one.
ninety three.
He reached his new kingdom early the following year.
The Protestant nobles forced him by direct threats to confirm by oath the religious liberties of the land, yet he had already begun to favour the intrigues of the Catholic clergy, when the death of his brother called him back to France, where he ascended the throne as Henry III, in fifteen seventy four.
For over one year the Poles waited in vain for the return of their king, then they proceeded to a new election.
This time the Protestants seemed to obtain a complete victory.
The choice fell on Stephen Bathory, Prince of Transylvania, an able warrior and a well known friend of the Reformation.
Among the twelve magnates that were sent to him to announce his election, there were eleven Protestants, but they had made a double mistake in imposing upon the newly elected prince too burdensome an election agreement, perhaps
The sole Catholic member of the embassy, Solikowski, promised Bathory the assistance of his brethren in setting aside the burdensome conditions, and called his attention to the fact that Anna, a zealous Catholic, would never marry a heretic.
These representations prevailed, and it was as a Catholic that Stephen Bathory came to Poland, to the great disappointment of the Protestants.
Showing 281–300 of 792 · page 15 of 40
← Previous
Next →