He declared an imperial ban over the Swiss Confederacy in an attempt to gain wider support for the operation amongst the German princes by declaring the conflict an "imperial war".
他宣布了对瑞士邦联的帝国禁令，以企图通过将这场斗争宣布为一场“帝国战争”来在德国诸王公中得到对这一活动的更广泛的支持。