Sigismund of Luxembourg, King of Germany and…

1419 CE

Sigismund of Luxembourg, King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor-elect, assumes the Bohemian crown after the death on August 16, 1419, of his half-brother Wenceslas, ending decades of arguments and fights over the king’s choice of candidates for higher offices and church reform.

However, the Hussites, who hold the emperor partly responsible for Huss’s execution, will not allow him to take the Bohemian throne.

Zizka, like most Czechs, refuses to acknowledge Sigismund as king of Bohemia even though the latter offers him the viceroyalty of Bohemia.

Sigismund and Pope Martin V join forces to expunge the Hussite heresy and install the new king.

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Prague > Praha Hlavni mesto Praha Czech Republic View →

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Jan Hus View → Jan Žižka View → Pope Martin V View → Sigismund View → Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia View →

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Papal States (Republic of St. Peter) View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Moravian Margravate View → Bohemia, Kingdom of View → Hussites View →

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Western Schism or Papal Schism (also known as the Great Schism of Western Christianity) View → Bohemian Civil War of 1390-1419 View → German Civil War of 1400-11 View → Renaissance Papacy View →

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Weapons View →

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Commerce View → Labor and Service View → Conflict View → Mayhem View → Faith View → Government View → Custom and Law View → Technology View →

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