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The army of Sigismund of Hungary retreated to Hungary in avoidance of the encounter. Sigismund Korybut arrived in Prague on 16 May 1422, and was acknowledged ruler of Bohemia. He became commander of local Hussites, and fought in Hussite internal disputes. Pope Martin V insisted that Vytautas and Jogaila recall Sigismund from Bohemia.
- The Hussite Revolt
- Jan Zizka – Veteran and General
- The War Wagons
- Fighting Off A Crusade
- The Victors Fight For Control
- The Hussites on The Offensive
- Booty, Brutality, and Collapse
In the early 15thcentury, the bitter religious divisions that would create Protestantism were beginning to take shape. A century before Martin Luther would nail his theses to the church door in Wittenberg, a few brave men were calling for church reform. As the pressure mounted, the papacy fought back hard, and heretics started to be executed by bur...
The greatest leader of this revolt was a military veteran named Jan Zizka. Born into the gentry around 1378, he became a professional soldier. During his career, he had fought against the famed and dreaded Teutonic Knights at Tannenberg in 1410 and later lost an eye while in the service of King Wenceslas IV. With one eye missing and carrying the Hu...
Aside from Zizka’s leadership, the greatest weapon in the Hussite arsenal was the war wagon. Hussite armies took war wagons with them wherever they went. Protected by hoardings and planks, bound together with iron, these hardened wagons were circled before battle. The horses were unhitched and the wheels interlocked, forming a fort on any battlefie...
The wagon forts were like nothing the Hussites’ opponents had ever faced. They gave the Rebels their first victory in the face of superior Royalist forces at Sudomer on 25 March 1420. A crusade was called against the Hussites, and Sigismund led crusading forces back into his kingdom. On 14 July he attacked the entrenched Hussites at Prague and was ...
The Hussites had set up a council to run the country. Consisting of twenty regents from the cities and the nobility, it worked while the rebels were under pressure. But divisions started to emerge, with the nobility gathering under the banner of the Utraquist moderates and threatening to defect to Sigismund. Prince Korybut, a nephew of the grand du...
Over the next few years, further crusades were launched against the Hussites. Led by a priest named Prokop, the Hussites drove back the crusaders in 1426 and 1427. But it was clear that the attacks would keep on coming. The time had come to go on the offensive. Starting in 1428, the Hussites began raiding their neighbors in Hungary, Saxony and Sile...
The Hussites were still able to defend themselves well. When Sigismund launched his fifth crusade in 1431, the rebels united and drove him back, the mere sound of their battle hymns putting the crusaders to flight. But trouble was coming. Two factions among the Hussites, the Taborites and the Orphans, fell out over the spoils of their raid into Sil...
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Nov 18, 2021 · The Hussite Wars (1419 to c. 1434) were a series of conflicts fought in Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic) between followers of the reformer Jan Hus and Catholic loyalists toward the end of the Bohemian...
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Korybut was imprisoned in 1427 for allegedly conspiring to surrender the Hussite forces to Sigismund of Hungary. He was released in 1428 and participated in the Hussite invasion of Silesia. After a few years, Korybut returned to Poland with his men.
In June of that year their forces, led by Prokop the Great—who took the command of the Taborites shortly after Žižka's death in October 1424—and Sigismund Korybut, who had returned to Bohemia, signally defeated the Germans at Usti nad Labem.
