When at the very height of power, all his schemes of aggrandisement came to sudden ruin through a succession of disastrous defeats at the hands of the Swiss at Grandson (March 2, 1476), at Morat (June 22, 1476) Austria.
Indistinguishable from his personal ambition was his passion for the aggrandisement of the church and its predominance in the state.
His policy of imperial aggrandisement had been in progress.