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The Hussites initially campaigned defensively, but after 1427 they assumed the offensive. Apart from their religious aims, they fought for the national interests of the Czechs. The moderate and radical parties were united, and they not only repelled the attacks of the army of crusaders but crossed the
The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, and European monarchs loyal to the Catholic Church, as well as various Hussite factions. At a late stage of the conflict, the Utraquists ...
- 30 July 1419 – 30 May 1434
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Utraquism. Utraquism (from the Latin sub utraque specie, meaning "under both kinds") or Calixtinism (from chalice; Latin: calix, mug, borrowed from Greek kalyx, shell, husk; Czech: kališníci) was a belief amongst Hussites, a reformist Christian movement, that communion under both kinds (both bread and wine, as opposed to the bread alone ...
Nov 18, 2021 · Žižka died of the plague in 1424 and was replaced by the general Prokop the Bold (also given as Prokop the Great, l. c. 1380-1434), also an effective military leader. He had no more success in unifying the Hussites after engagements than Žižka had, however, and at the Battle of Lipany in 1434 moderate Hussites sided with the Catholics against the more radical faction.
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Oct 26, 2022 · A compromise agreement was then reached between the moderate Hussites and Rome – demands known as ‘the compacts’. As a result, the Utraquists represented the dominant church in Bohemia for the best part of the next two centuries until, in 1620, any and all religious activity that wasn’t Catholic in nature was outlawed.
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The Hussites were a pre-Protestant Christian movement centered on the teachings of Czech martyr Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415), who had been burned at the stake on July 6, 1415, at the Council of Constance. Outraged by Hus' death, the Hussites became a powerful force in Moravia, Bohemia, and parts of Poland, with many Czech nobles as well as the ...
It became home to a radical faction of Hussites known as the Taborites. Zizka joined forces with Hussite priest Jan Zelivsky. On July 30, 1419, the two men led a group of armed protesters through the streets of Prague to New Town Hall where they demanded the release of imprisoned moderate Hussites known as Utraquists.
