Hus's death sparks decades of religious warfare.…

1396 CE to 1539 CE

Hus's death sparks decades of religious warfare.

Sigismund, the pro-papal king of Hungary and successor to the Bohemian throne after the death of Wenceslas in 1419, fails repeatedly in attempts to gain control of the kingdom despite aid by Hungarian and German armies.

Riots break out in Prague.

The Taborites, led by a Czech yeoman, Jan Žižka, stream into the capital.

Religious strife pervades the entire kingdom and is particularly intense in the German-dominated towns.

Czech burghers turn against the Roman Catholic Germans; many are massacred, and most survivors flee to the Holy Roman Empire.

In the countryside Žižka' s armies storm monasteries, churches, and villages, expelling the Catholic clergy and expropriating ecclesiastical lands.

Locations
Prague > Praha Hlavni mesto Praha Czech Republic View →

People
Jan Hus View → Jan Žižka View → Sigismund View → Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia View →

Groups
Germans View → Papal States (Republic of St. Peter) View → Germany, Kingdom of (within the Holy Roman Empire) View → Slovaks (West Slavs) View → Czechs [formerly Bohemians] (West Slavs) View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Moravian Margravate View → Bohemia, Kingdom of View → Holy Roman Empire View → Utraquists, or Calixtines View → Taborites View → Hussites View →

Topics
Bohemian Reformation View → Hussite Wars View →

Subjects
Mayhem View → Faith View → Government View → Scholarship View → Custom and Law View →

Regions

Subregions

Related Events