He did not shine much as Reichs-Generalissimo, under Kaiser Sigismund, in his expeditions against Zisca; on the contrary, he presided over huge defeat and rout, once and again, in that capacity; and indeed had represented in vain that, with such a species of militia, victory was impossible.

He represented and again represented, to no purpose; whereupon he declined the office farther; in which others fared no better.

[Hormayr, _OEsterreichischer Plutarch_ vii.

109-158, ?
Zisca.] The offer to be Kaiser was made him in his old days; but he wisely declined that too.

It was in Brandenburg, by what he silently founded there, that he did his chief benefit to Germany and mankind.