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the most powerful section of the (q.v.) in 1433, and endeavoured to limit abuses of the papal prerogative. Pope Eugenius who refused to cro the Alps to preside at it, opposed its action, and summoned it to meet Ferrara. It refused, and on his sammoning a council at Ferrara, suspended him (1438). of the council, however, then migrated to and afterwards to Florence. The majority, remained at Basel, and next year, after Eugenius, elected Duke A made us of under the title of Felix V. He, however, not generally recognised. The council (which lost most of its Italian members on its sus of the Pope) gradually dwindled, and in removed to Lausanne. In 1447 Eugenius IV. and in 1449 Felix resigned his claim to the office. The new Pope, Nicholas V., confirmed acts of the council, which then submitted to Roman canonists deny the legality of its acts, they were accepted as part of the canon law of and Germany on the election of Felix, and still partially in force.