The Germans eventually were forced to seek peace. The Lithuanians and Poles did not wish to attack the Czechs, Germany was having internal conflicts and could not muster up a sufficient force to battle the Hussites, and the king of Denmark left the Czech border to go back to his home. A third crusade was attempted by the papacy, but it resulted in complete failure as well. They were firmly defeated by Žižka at the Battle of Deutschbrod, and they were driven out once again. Seeing that the Hussites were weakened, the Germans undertook another crusade. However, the Hussites subsequently laid siege to the garrison of crusaders, and took back nearly all of the land they had previously captured, resulting in the crusade being a complete failure.Īfter the reins of the Hussite army were handed over to yeoman Jan Žižka, internal strife followed. Large numbers of crusaders came from all over Europe to fight. He got permission from the pope to launch a crusade against the Hussites. Wenceslaus's brother, Sigismund, who had inherited the throne, was outraged by the spread of Hussitism. In Prague and various other parts of Bohemia, the Catholic Germans living there were forced out. When King Wenceslaus IV died of natural causes a few years later, the tension stemming from the Hussites grew stronger.

Because the King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia had plans to be crowned the Holy Roman Emperor, he suppressed the religion of the Hussites, yet it continued to spread.

The unrest began after pre-Protestant Christian reformer Jan Hus was executed by the Catholic Church in 1415 for heresy. These wars lasted from 1419 to approximately 1434. After initial clashes, the Utraquists changed sides in 1432 to fight alongside Roman Catholics and opposed the Taborites and other Hussite spinoffs. The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, European monarchs loyal to the Catholic Church, as well as various Hussite factions. Radical Picards/ Neo-Adamites (splitted group of Taborites) Moderate Hussite faction ( Calixtines) (since 1423)

Bohemian Catholic nobility and cities, Landfrieden.

Bohemian nobility and cities accepting Hussitism.

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