Furstemburg was already a Bishop, and therefore could not be moved to another diocese except by a special dispensation from the Pope, or by a postulation, in which it was necessary that two thirds of the Chapter of Cologne should join.

The Pope would grant no dispensation to a creature of France.

The Emperor induced more than a third part of the Chapter to vote for the Bavarian prince.

Meanwhile, in the Chapters of Liege, Munster, and Hildesheim, the majority was adverse to France.

Lewis saw, with indignation and alarm, that an extensive province which he had begun to regard as a fief of his crown was about to become, not merely independent of him, but hostile to him.