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 | | By 1550, when he summoned his second diet, a reaction in his favor began, and the lingering petulance of the gentry was sternly rebuked by, the marshal of the diet, who openly accused them of attempting to diminish unduly the legislative prerogative of the crown. |
 | | He sought to remedy the evil by liaisons with two of the most beautiful of his countrywomen, and, the diet undertaking to legitimatize and acknowledge as his successor any heir male who might be born to him; but their complacency was in vain, for the king died childless. |
 | | The Polish Protestants hoped that he would take this course and thus bring about a breach with Rome at the very crisis of the confessional struggle in Poland, while the Habsburgs, who coveted the Polish throne, raised every obstacle to the childless kings remarriage. |
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