... real power. The emperor, who was also a powerful sovereign in his own right, couldmarshal his own forces to establish his decrees. But the emperor, who had no treasury or army of his own, waspowerless ... such an array of the papal powers against the reformers thatthey could present no successful resistance. With this intention he entered into a secret treaty with thepowerful King of France, in ... injury. Matthias wasprofessedly their friend, had been placed in power mainly as their sovereign, and was now invested with such power, as sovereign of the collected realms of Austria, that he...