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Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
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Hussite Wars
15th-century religious wars in Bohemia
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Battle of Lipany
Fought at Lipany, Vitice in 1434 during the Hussite Wars
The Battle of Lipany, also called the Battle of Český Brod, was fought at Lipany 40 km east of Prague on 30 May 1434 and virtually ended the Hussite Wars. An army of moderate Hussite nobility and Catholics, called the Bohemian League, defeated the radical Taborites and Orphans…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Utraquism
15th-century Protestant doctrine held by the Hussites
Utraquism, also called Calixtinism, was a belief amongst Hussites, a pre-Protestant reformist Christian movement in fifteenth century Bohemia that communion under both kinds should be administered to the laity during the celebration of the Eucharist. Communion in both kinds was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Taborites
Faction of the Hussites
The Taborites, were a faction within the Hussite movement in the medieval Lands of the Bohemian Crown. The Taborites were sometimes referred to as the Picards, a term used for groups which were seen as extreme in their rejection of traditional Catholic practices and societal…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Prokop the Great
14/15th-century Hussite general
Prokop the Great or Prokop the Bald or the Shaven was a Czech Hussite general and a prominent Taborite military leader during the Hussite Wars. On his mother's side, he came from a German patrician family living in Prague.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)