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Adalbert, his early career, 30;
his influence as Bishop of Prague, 30;
his flight from Prague, 31;
his conversion of the Hungarians, 31;
circumstances of his death, 32;
restoration of his body to Prague, 39-41;
appealed to at Battle of Chlum, 53;
popularity of his hymn, 32, 112
Adamites, 270, 271
Adam, Daniel, historian, 417
Adolf of Nassau, Wenceslaus’s relations with, 114, 115
Albert, son of Rudolf of Hapsburg, his quarrels with Wenceslaus, 114;
elected Emperor, 115;
sanctions union of Poland with Bohemia, 115;
defeated by Wenceslaus II., 116;
tries to secure Bohemia for his sons, 117, 118;
Bohemian feeling about his death, 118
Albert in the time of Sigismund (see Austria, Albert of)
Albik, Archbishop, his demands from Hus, 197, 198
Alexander II., 47
Alexander V., Pope, his relations with Zajíc, 190, 193;
checks inquiry into Wyclif’s books, 193
Alexander VI., Pope, his treatment of the Brotherhood, 353, 354
Amos of S̆tekna opposes changes in the Brotherhood, 350, 351;
denounces the Brotherhood to Ladislaus, 355
Anabaptists, their relations with the Brotherhood, 379
Angelini, chaplain to Maximilian of Bavaria, 478
Anhalt, Siegfried of, 92
Anhalt, Christian of (see Christian)
Anna, sister of Wenceslaus IV., effect of her marriage with Richard II., 177
Arnestus, Bishop, his support of Charles IV.’s reforms, 142;
his treatment of Rienzi, 150
Arnulf, his claims on Pannonia, 16;
his candidature for the Empire, 19;
his struggles with Svatopluk, 19;
calls in the Hungarians to his help, 19, 20;
stirs up civil war in Moravia, 21
Art, encouragement of, by Vratislav, 50;
by Charles IV., 134-6;
by Rudolf II., 416, 417
Art of peasantry, 507, 508
Assembly, Bohemian, in time of Libus̆a, 5;
in time of Vladislav, 59, 60;
character of, in early times, 67, 68;
elects Henry of Carinthia, 118;
in time of John, 119, 120, 125, 126;
resists Charles IV., 140, 141;
superseded by Wenceslaus’s Council, 168;
imposes conditions on Sigismund, 234, 235;
rejects him as king, 272;
attitude of, to George, 326;
debates of, in 1537, 385, 386;
in 1575, 413, 414;
in 1608, 438, 439, 453;
suppression of, by Ferdinand II., 490;
revival of, by Leopold II., 501
(see also Nobles, Council)
Assembly, Moravian, 330, 375, 399;
Silesian, 330, 375
Augusta, John, his early career, 380;
draws up Confession, 380, 384;
his relations to Luther, 383;
visits Bucer and Calvin, 386, 387;
rebuked by Ludanic, 392;
kidnapped and imprisoned, 393;
his cruel treatment, 393, 398, 401;
his relations to the Jesuits, 403, 404;
his quarrels with the Elders, 400, 402, 404;
his final release, 405;
his later differences with the Brotherhood, 411, 412
Austi, rout of Taborites at, 243
Austria, first struggle of, with Bohemia, 49;
Margravate of, raised into a Dukedom, 58;
end of Babenberg line in, 65;
claim on, of Frederick II., 65, 66;
conquered by Ottakar II., 66, 84, 85;
secured to him by marriage, 85;
conquered by Rudolf, 99;
relations of Charles to, 145, 146;
Protestantism in, relations of, with Matthias (see Protestants and Tschernembl)
Austria, Duke of, joins conspiracy against Wenceslaus IV., 170;
allied with John XXIII., 209
Austria, Albert of, made ruler of Moravia, 282;
chosen King of Bohemia, 311, 312;
struggles of, 312-14
Austria, Upper, attitude of, towards Bohemian rising, 469, 471
Austria, Lower, invaded by Thurn, 471, 472
(see also Hapsburg, Rudolf, &c.)
Avars, struggles of, with the Slavs, 7
Avignon, 126, 155
B
Babenberg, house of, 84
(see Frederick, Leopold)
Balbin, Jesuit historian, 498
Basel, Bishop of, supports Rudolf against Ottakar, 104
Basel, Council of, reasons for its summons, 290-4;
discussions at, 297-302
Basel, Compacts of, 307, 309, 318, 319, 323, 333, 368, 385, 386
Battles of Chlum, 53;
Crecy, 129;
Domaz̆lic̆e, 288, 289;
Knin, 243;
Kutna Hora, 277;
Lipaný, 305;
Lomnice, 470;
Mailberg, 49;
Marchfeld, 105;
Merseburg, 27;
Mohács, 372;
Mühlberg, 390;
Nemecky Brod, 277;
Porc̆ic, 253;
Rakonic, 477;
R̆ic̆an, 268;
Sudomír, 248, 249;
Tachov, 285;
Vys̆ehrad, 266, 267;
White Hill, 478, 479;
Z̆izkov Hora, 257, 258
Bavaria, relations of, with Charles IV., 145-7;
resistance of, to Ferdinand, 377
Bavaria, Duke Louis of, his opposition to Ottakar, 91;
claim of electoral rights by, 91, 92
Bavaria, Duke Henry of, his friendship for Ottakar, 91;
goes over to Rudolf, 98
(see also Louis, Emperor; Maximilian)
Beaufort, Cardinal, leads fourth crusade, 285-8, 292
Bela, King of Hungary, defeated by the Tartars, 74;
Ottakar’s rivalry with, 86;
gives his daughter to Ottakar, 87
Berka, Ladislaus of, 430, 434, 435
Bethlen Gabor, his rising in Transylvania, 472;
invades Austria, 475;
declared Prince of Hungary, 476;
his steady opposition to Ferdinand, 476
Bilek, his relations with Augusta, 393, 401, 403, 404
Blahoslav, his importance in Brotherhood, 401;
his controversy with Augusta, 411
Bocksay, Stephen, his insurrection, 427, 428
Bohemia, peculiarities of its history, 1-4;
zeal for national language in, 2;
early settlements in, 4;
forced into Christian baptism by Franks, 8;
Christianised by Methodius, 12;
Slavonic ritual introduced into, 12;
national estimate of patriotism and heroism, 18, 19;
effect on, of fall of Dukedom of Moravia, 21;
struggles between Christians and heathens in, 22-32;
relations of, to German Empire in tenth century, 33;
to Saxony and Poland in same period, 34, 35;
first king of, 49;
uncertainty of royal title in, 51;
effect on, of Vladislav’s policy, 59, 62;
peculiarities of constitutional history of, 67, 68;
how strengthened by German weakness, 89, 90;
effect on, of Battle Of Marchfeld, 105, 106;
privileges secured to, by John, 119, 120;
feeling of Charles IV. to, 132, 137, 146;
new life developed in, by Charles, 137;
position in Empire claimed for, 146;
extension of territory of, 145, 148;
attitude of, towards its kings, 235;
traditions of, contrasted with English, 341-3;
Luther’s feeling towards, 364, 365;
decline of liberty in, in sixteenth century, 361, 362;
attitude of, towards Ferdinand II., 374, 375;
final struggle in, 467-82;
sufferings of, in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, 483-91
Bohemia, language of, encouraged by Charles IV., 162;
developed by Thomas of S̆títný, 162;
despised by German scholars, 161, 162;
connected with Reformation movement, 162, 163, 175-6;
growth of, under Hapsburgs, 417;
repressed by Jesuits, 491;
discouraged by Joseph II., 500;
later revival of, 501-9
Bohemia, “Nation” of, in Prague University (see Nations, University)
Boleslav the Cruel, trained by Drahomíra, 24;
persecutes Christians, 24;
murders Wenceslaus, 26;
submits to Emperor, 26;
makes alliance with Otto, 27;
resists Hungarians, 27;
changes his policy, 27;
estimate of him by Bohemian chroniclers, 27, 28;
his treatment of the Z̆upa, 68, 69
Boleslav the Pious, concessions made to him by Pope, 28;
his relations with St. Adalbert, 30-32;
his policy in Poland, 29, 30, 35
Boleslav III., his profligacy and downfall, 35, 36
Boleslav of Poland, his aggressions and intrigues, 35
Boniface IX., Pope, his relations with Wenceslaus IV., 167, 173
Boris of Bulgaria, his conversion, 8, 9
Bor̆ivoj, of Bohemia, his conversion, 12;
his zeal for the faith, 22
Bor̆ivoj, later Duke, deposed by Vrs̆ovici, 51
Boz̆etĕch, his artistic fame, 50;
his revival of Slavonic ritual, 50
Boz̆ej, one of the Vrs̆ovici, 51
Bracciolini, Poggio, 225
Brac̆islav, his romantic career, 37, 38;
his restoration of St. Adalbert, 38-41;
his struggle with the Emperor, 42, 43
Brandenburg, Margrave of (see Otto)
Brandenburg, Margravate of, joined to Bohemia, 148;
given to Hohenzollern, 255;
relations of, with Brotherhood, 395
(see also Hohenzollern)
Braunau, persecution in, 445, 465
Breslau in time of Wenceslaus IV., 165;
in time of George, 331, 332, 336, 337
Brno (see Brünn)
Brotherhood, Bohemian, compared with English Quakers, 341-3;
first foundation of, 344, 345;
Rokycana’s relation to, 345-7;
relations of, to nobles, 349;
modifications of their doctrines, 351-3;
persecution of, by Ladislaus, 355-60;
sympathy for, in Moravia, 358, 359;
different motives of its protectors, 356;
relations of, with Anabaptists, 379;
with Conrad of Krajek, 380-2;
Confession proposed for, 380;
relations of, with Luther, 382-4;
first persecution of, by Ferdinand, 384;
treatment of, after capture of Prague, 391-4;
treatment of, in Poland and Russia, 394, 395;
in Moravia, 399, 400;
their desire for national position, 410, 411;
resistance to proposal for common Confession, 411-14;
Maximilian’s attitude towards, 401, 412, 415;
their struggle with Jesuits, 418-24;
their bold rebuke of nobles, 419-21;
later stages of, 491-7
(see also Michael, Amos, Gregory, Augusta, Blahoslav, Comenius, Z̆erotin, Budovĕc)
Brunswick, Duke of, his relations to Rudolf II., 450
Brünn, liberties of, 72, 76-9;
attitude towards George, 331, 338;
towards Rudolf II., 434;
stands by Matthias, 459
Bruno, Bishop of Olmütz, his assistance to Ottakar, 83;
his appeal to Gregory, 96, 97;
advises Ottakar to submit to Rudolf, 99
Bucer, Augusta’s visit to, 386, 387
Bucquoi, his invasion of Bohemia, 470;
his final campaign, 477-9
Budejóvice, 294, 320, 449, 468, 452
Budovĕc, Wenceslaus of Budova, his policy, 437;
his relations with Rudolf, 437-43;
with Z̆erotin, 437;
asserts a special principle, 439;
prepares for rebellion, 445;
encourages Prague against Leopold, 452;
opposes House of Hapsburg, 461;
suspicions of peasantry against him, 473;
his character, 480;
his death, 484
Budweis (see Budejóvice)
Bulgaria, conversion of (see Boris)
Burian of Gutenstein, 316, 340
C
Cahera, Gallus, 367, 368, 377
Calixtines, their difference from Hus, 222;
divers elements of their party, 236, 237;
relation with Taborites, 253, 254, 265, 268, 269, 271;
effect of Z̆iz̆ka’s death on, 283;
relations of P. Payne to, 283, 284;
divisions among, 284, 306
Calvin, Augusta’s visit to, 386
Calvinists, sympathy of Brothers with, 414, 435
C̆apek, 305, 306
Catholics of Bohemia recognize interdict, 223;
relations of with Wenceslaus, 224;
formation of as a separate party, 236;
first debate with Utraquists, 259;
led by Meinhard, 319;
King George’s treatment of, 326-9, 331;
their combinations with Utraquists, 391, 400, 408;
their final victory, 483-5
Carinthia, 87, 89, 97
(see also Henry of)
Carlstein, 135, 294
Carniola, 87, 89, 97
Carvajal, Cardinal, 318, 319
Casimir, King of Poland, 312;
later King, 338
C̆enek of Wartenberg, his character and position, 233, 234;
grounds of difference from Utraquists, 241;
his double treachery, 249-51;
returns to Utraquists, 271;
final desertion of Utraquists, 278
Cesarini, Cardinal, organizes fourth crusade, 288, 289;
position of, at Basel, 298-302
Charles V., King of France, his alliance with John, 126, 127, 129;
his influence on Charles of Bohemia, 131, 132;
alliance with Wenceslaus, 164
Charles VII., King of France, claims Bohemian throne, 325
Charles I. of Bohemia, IV. of Germany, his name, 127;
popularity of early rule, 127;
relations with his father, 127-31;
chosen Holy Roman Emperor, 129;
early training, 130-2;
influence of Paris on, 132;
founds University of Prague, 133-7;
builds new town, 136;
proposes Majestas Carolina, 137-41;
withdraws it, 140;
his reforms of the laws, 142, 143;
relations with German Empire, 143-6;
his Golden Bull, 144, 145;
his relations with Bavaria and Austria, 145, 146;
resistance to Pope, 148, 156, 157;
relations with Rienzi, 149, 150;
with Petrarch, 150, 151;
desire for hereditary German Empire, 152, 153;
fitness for guiding reform movement, 155, 156;
censures luxury of clergy, 157;
promotes moral reform, 158-60;
effect of his death, 163;
contrasted with Wenceslaus IV., 163;
incompatibility of his different objects, 186;
results of his work, 186
Charles V., Emperor of Germany, 388-91
Charles of Münsterberg (see Münsterberg)
Chazars, 9
Chelc̆ic, Peter of, his early career, 343, 344;
his doctrines, 344;
Rokycana’s attitude towards, 344, 345;
founds Brotherhood, 345;
his books burnt, 354
Christianity as understood by the Franks, 8;
introduced into Bulgaria, 8;
into Moravia, 10;
into Bohemia, 12
Christian of Anhalt, his character and aims, 435, 480;
disappointment at Letter of Majesty, 447;
forms Protestant Union, 448;
his relations with Peter Vok, 455;
with Frederick, 474;
his share in final campaign, 478, 479
Circles, Assemblies in, 395, 396
Clement VI., Pope, 128, 129
Clement, Saint, 12
Clement XIV., Pope, suppresses Jesuits, 499
Clergy, attitude towards, of Pr̆emysl Ottakar I., 63, 64;
of Pr̆emysl Ottakar II., 80, 81, 83, 87, 96;
of Wenceslaus II., 116, 133;
of Charles IV., 133, 157, 158;
their quarrels with Wenceslaus IV. (see Wenceslaus)
Collinus, Matthæus, 416
Colonna von Fels, 464
Comenius, his career, 491-8
Confession of Augsburg, 380
Confession of the Brotherhood, 380-4
Confession, Bohemian, of 1575, 413, 438
Conrad, Archbishop, 204
Conrad of Hohenstauffen, 54
Conrad of Moravia, 55, 56
Conrad Waldhauser, 158
Constantinople (see Emperor)
Constance, Council of, 204-20, 225, 226, 229, 230
Cornwall, Richard of, 86, 89
Cosmas (historian), 3, 7, 21, 39, 41
Council of Church, demands for, 290-2
(see Lyons, Pisa, Constance, Basel)
Council of Nobles (see Assembly)
Cracow, 34, 35, 38
Crato, Dr., 413
Crocco, 4
Crusades, effect of failure in thirteenth century, 154
Crusades against Bohemia, first, 252, 254;
second, 274;
third, 280;
fourth, 285;
fifth, 288, 289
Cumani, 74, 96
Cyril, 10, 14
D
Daniel, Bishop of Prague, his advice to Vladislav, 59;
opposition of nobles to, 60;
interest of, in Italian campaign, 61
De Geer, relations of, with Comenius, 496, 497
Dettmar, first Bishop of Prague, 29
Devin, 7, 10
Dietrichstein, his persecution of Protestants, 431
Dobrilug, attack on, by Saxons, 389
Dobrovsky, Josef, his services to Bohemia, 502, 503;
his view of Bohemian MS., 506
Domaz̆lic̆e, flight of Crusaders from, 288, 289;
persecution of Brothers in, 384
Drahomíra, her influence with Bohemian nobles, 24;
her persecution of Christians, 24;
death, 27
Dubravsky, his history, 416
E
Eckhard, Master, 161
Eger, river of, 4
Eger, city of (Cheb), restored by Albert, 115;
resists Utraquists, 294;
its exceptional position, 395
Eibenschütz (see Ivanc̆ice)
Elbing, Comenius at, 496
Elizabeth, daughter of Wenceslaus II., 119, 123, 125, 126, 127
Elizabeth, daughter of Sigismund, 314
Elizabeth, wife of Frederick V., her advice, 474;
her unpopularity, 475;
her courage, 477, 478;
her flight, 479
Emperor, Frankish, struggles of, against Slavs (see Louis);
relations of, to subjects, 19
Emperor of Constantinople, treatment of barbarians, 19, 20
Emperor, German, relations of, with Bohemia in tenth century, 33;
in thirteenth century, 68, 89
Empire, Holy Roman, effect of its weakness, 89-90;
German character of, 95, 96;
Charles IV., feeling to, 143, 145, 153
Eugenius IV., Pope, 298, 311, 316
F
Fabricius thrown out of window, 467, 468
Fantinus de Valle, his relations to George, 333, 335
Ferdinand I. chosen King of Bohemia, 373;
circumstances of his election, 374, 375;
his invasion of Hungary, 376;
suppression of Pas̆ek’s tyranny, 377, 378;
his desire for union in Church and State, 379;
first persecutions of Brotherhood by, 384-6, 391-4, 399-405;
attitude of, towards Utraquists, 385, 386;
suppression of Prague rising, 390, 391;
creation of Hof-Kammer, 396, 397;
attempt to unite Utraquists and Catholics, 397, 398, 408;
resistance of Moravia to, 399;
death, 405;
general aspects of his policy, 406-9
Ferdinand II., his first persecution of Protestants, 462;
defeated by Matthias as candidate for Empire, 462;
chosen King of Bohemia, 464;
excites resistance to his rule, 465;
chosen Emperor, 474;
suppresses resistance in Vienna, 471, 472;
conquers Bohemia, 476-480;
his tyrannical reign, 483-491
Ferrara, Council at, 316
Fox, George, compared with Peter of Chelc̆ic, 341, 343
Franks, struggles of, with the Slavs, 7-8
Frederick, Barbarossa, his relations with Vladislav, 57-9, 62, 63
Frederick II., his relations with Pr̆emysl Ottakar I., 63, 64;
his resistance to Frederick the Quarrelsome, 65, 66;
his quarrel with Wenceslaus I., 66;
effect of his death, 66;
his attitude during Tartar invasion, 75
Frederick the Quarrelsome, his quarrels with Bohemia and the Empire, 65, 84
Frederick of Hapsburg, son of Albert, tries to become King of Bohemia, 118
Frederick, Duke of Austria, alliance with Henry of Lipa, 123
Frederick III., Emperor of Germany, becomes guardian to Ladislaus, 314, 318, 320;
his relations with George of Podĕbrad, 320, 323, 335
Frederick V., Winter King, sends troops to Bohemia, 470;
chosen King, 473;
causes of his acceptance, 474-5;
reception in Prague, 475;
his sudden panic, 477;
final flight, 479;
effect of his character on Bohemian movement, 480
Freudenthal, grant of Teutonic liberties to, 71
G
Genghis Khan, his invasion of Europe, 74-75;
his repulse by Wenceslaus, 75
George of Podĕbrad, his origin and early career, 317-21;
his capture of Prague, 319;
his capture of Tabor, 320-1;
his friendship for Rokycana, 319;
compared with Cromwell, 322-3;
brings back King Ladislaus, 323-4;
his influence over him, 324-5;
circumstances of his election to the crown, 325-7;
his attitude towards Catholics and Utraquists, 329-31;
Pius II.’s treatment of, 329-37;
rescues Frederick III., 335;
offends Paul II., 336-7;
excommunicated, 337-8;
his struggle against the nobles, 337-40;
defies Pope and Emperor, 339;
circumstances of his death, 340;
petition about his statue, 439;
destruction of his statue, 486
Germans, first struggles of, with Slavs, 7-9;
oppose introduction of Slavonic language, 10-16;
regain independence under Henry the Fowler, 27;
relations of, to Bohemia in tenth century, 33;
cruelties of, under Otto of Brandenburg, 110;
feelings of, about Charles IV., 144;
their scorn of Bohemian language, 161-2;
their struggle about the three votes, 183-8;
language of, exalted above Bohemian by Joseph II., 500;
contest of, in nineteenth century with Bohemian language, 506-8;
(see also Towns, Poric̆, &c.)
Gerson, Chancellor of Paris University, 198, 225
Geysa, King of Hungary, converted by Adalbert, 32
Geysa, Queen of Hungary, defended by Vladislav, 61
Gnesen, in Poland, reasons of its importance, 32, 35, 38, 39
Gorazd, successor to Methodius, 16
Görlitz, its relations with King George, 338, 339
Gregory VII., Pope (see Hildebrand)
Gregory IX., Pope, effect of his quarrel with Frederick II., 75
Gregory X., Pope, Ottakar’s appeal to, 93-5;
his final decision, 97
Gregory XI., Pope, accuses Milic of heresy, 160
Gregory XII., Pope, relations of Bohemian clergy to, 183, 190
Gregory, nephew of Peter of Chelc̆ic, organises Brotherhood, 345-6;
remonstrates with Rokycana, 347;
steadiness in time of persecution, 348
Gross-Meseristch (see Velké Mezir̆íc̆í)
Grünberg (see Zelená Hora)
Gustavus Adolphus, effect of his victories, 483;
his relations with Comenius, 494
Guta, daughter of Rudolf of Hapsburg, circumstances of her betrothal, 100, 108;
of her marriage, 113
H
Hajek, Wenceslaus, historian, 416
Hajek, Thaddæus, astronomer, 417
Hanka, his discoveries, 504
Hapsburg (see Rudolf, Albert, Ferdinand, &c.)
Hapsburg, House of, unpopularity of, in Germany, 114;
in Bohemia, 114, 118, 119;
recovers its ground for a time, 117;
overthrow of, by House of Luxemburg, 119;
concessions to by Charles IV., 146;
attempts to unite dominions of, 407;
attitude of, towards Rudolf II., 426, 427;
attempts to overthrow, 461;
Z̆erotin’s loyalty to, 461, 469, 487;
character of their rule, 416, 498;
end of male line of, 498, 499
Hartlib, relations of, with Comenius, 494
Hassenstein (Bohuslav), 354, 355
Hauska (Martinek), 270
Heidelberg (see University)
Henry IV. of France, his relations to Z̆erotin, 430;
effect of his death, 449
Henry the Fowler, resistance of, to the Hungarians, 27
Henry II. intrigues against Bohemia, 36
Henry III., his struggle with Brac̆islav, 42, 43
Henry IV., his friendship for Vratislav, 48;
makes him King of Bohemia, 49
Henry VI. of England, his relations to P. Payne, 301, 302
Henry of Carinthia chosen King of Bohemia, 118;
dislike of, in Bohemia, 119
Henry of Luxemburg, chosen Emperor, 118;
moderation towards the Hapsburgs, 119;
secures Bohemian wife for his son, 119;
Rienzi’s relation to, 150
Henry of Lipa, his character and policy, 120, 121;
his rebellion against John, 122, 123;
his power in the kingdom, 123, 125;
his intrigues against Queen Elizabeth, 125
Henry of Rosenberg in fourteenth century, importance of his position, 168
Henry of Rosenberg in fifteenth century, resistance of, to Lev of Roz̆mital, 371;
supports Ferdinand, 372
Hieronymus (see Jerom)
Hildebrand, relations of, with Jaromír, 47;
with Henry IV., 48;
his opposition to Slavonic ritual, 50
Hlavsa, his opposition to Pas̆ek, 363;
his imprisonment and release, 369, 370, 378
Hohenzollern, Frederick of, his relations with Rudolf, 92, 98, 104
Hohenzollern, Frederick of, in time of Sigismund, becomes Elector of Brandenburg, 255;
his share in the crusades against Bohemia, 255, 274, 285, 288, 289
Hof-Kammer, institution of, 397;
growth of its power, 426
Horneck, Ottakar von, his attacks on King Ottakar, 88
Horn, Protestant settlement at, 455
Hradiste, Ottakar’s treatment of, 82
Hrasten, the male town, 7
Hroby, treatment of Protestants at, 465
Hubner, his denunciations of Wyclif, 178
Hungary, relations of, with Ottakar II., 86, 87, 89, 99, 103, 104;
end of the old royal line, 115;
claim of Wenceslaus on, 116;
Ferdinand’s wars in, 376-8;
Rudolf’s oppressions of, 427, 428;
grant of freedom to, 433
(see also Bethlen Gabor)
Hungarians, their invasion of Europe, 17;
their overthrow of Svatopluk, 20, 21;
resistance to them by Henry the Fowler, 27;
by Boleslav, 27;
their conversion by Adalbert, 32;
effect of their invasion on position of Bohemia, 33;
share of, in battle of Vys̆ehrad, 266, 267;
cruelties in war, 267, 276;
defeated at Mohács, 372
(see also Tartars, Matthias)
Huns’ struggles with Slavs, 7
Hus, Jan, assertor of Bohemian language, 2;
his birth and early career, 176, 177;
his services to Bohemian language, 177;
his opposition to attacks on Wyclif, 178, 181, 212;
his admiration for Wyclif, 180;
appealed against, to Zajíc, 182;
rebuked by Wenceslaus, 184;
illness of, 188;
unjust charges against, 189, 206, 208, 212, 218, 219;
appeals to Pope against Zajíc, 193;
summoned to Rome, 193, 194;
excommunicated, 193;
protected by Wenceslaus, 223;
denounces crusade against Naples, 195, 196;
denounces sale of indulgences, 196, 197, 199, 200;
change in his position, 197;
retires from Prague, 202;
writes his book, “De Ecclesia,” 202, 203;
safe conduct of, 204, 207, 209, 211, 219;
his arrest and imprisonment, 206-8;
his letters to his friends, 205, 208, 216;
his attitude towards Communion in both kinds, 208, 217, 221;
examination of, by Council, 211-18;
circumstances of his death, 218-22;
legends about, note to 220;
difference of from his followers, 221, 222;
effect of his death, 222;
his position in Bohemian history, 2;
destruction of his statues, 486
Hynek of Lichtenberg, his rebellion against George, 336, 337
Hynek of Crus̆ina, his defence of Prague, 266;
his quarrel with Z̆iz̆ka, 268;
returns to Utraquists, 271
I
Iglau (see Jíhlava)
Illyezhazy, relations of, to Z̆erotin, 432, 433, 455
Innocent IV. encourages Ottakar’s conquest of Austria, 66, 84
Innocent VI. opposed by Charles IV., 156, 157
Innocent VII. denounces Wyclif, 181
Italy, Vladislav’s share in invasion of, 59-61;
Charles IV.’s feeling towards, 148-151
Ivanc̆ic̆e (Eibenschütz), school at, 422;
meeting of nobles at, 434, 435
J
James I. of England, 474
Jakaubek of Kladrau demands reformation of clergy, 202, 203;
preaches granting of Cup to laity, 208;
his answer about religious wars, 241;
his share in discussion with Taborites, 269;
attitude towards heresy, 270;
draws up articles for government of clergy, 274;
retires before Pr̆zibram, 283
Janovic, lords of, their treatment by Ferdinand, 384, 385
Jaromír, his relations with Vratislav, 45-7
Jerom, first appearance in Reformation, 198, 199;
his imprisonment at Constance, 210;
Hus’s feeling about him, 210;
his persecution and recantation, 225;
his final hearing and death, 225, 226
Jenstein, John of, Archbishop of Prague, his relations with king, 165-67;
Pope, 167
Jesuits, rise of, in Bohemia, 402;
their relations to Augusta, 403, 404;
their attitude towards Art, 418;
their struggles with brotherhood, 418-24;
their influence over Ferdinand II., 462, 465;
triumph of, under Ferdinand, 484, 491;
influence of, on their pupils, 501, 502;
dissolution of, in eighteenth century, 499
Jews, policy of Ottakar to, 106;
treatment of, by Jenstein, 166
Jíhlava, liberties of, 78;
resistance of, to George, 331, 338;
taken by Thurn, 471
Joachims Thal, peculiar privileges of, 395
Joan of Arc, 286, 287
Jodok of Moravia, cousin of Wenceslaus IV., 170, 172
John of Z̆elív, his fiery sermon, 232;
his demands after Z̆iz̆kov Hora battle, 264;
his relations with the nobles, 271;
his final tyranny, 273;
circumstances of his death, 277-9
John of Chlum, his protection of Hus, 204;
his appeal to the Pope, 205;
his attitude at the Council, 213, 215;
his last advice to Hus, 217, 218
John VIII., Pope, approves of Methodius, 15;
sanctions Slavonic ritual, 15;
rebukes Wiching, 16
John of Luxemburg, his marriage, 119;
his election to Bohemian throne, 119;
confirms national privileges, 119, 120;
trusts to German counsellors, 120, 122;
defends Louis of Bavaria, 121, 122;
fights against Bohemian rebels, 123;
his tyranny and profligacy, 123-7;
friendship for Charles of France, 126, 127;
suspicions of his son, 127;
circumstances of his death, 129
John, brother of Charles IV., 146, 147
John XXII., Pope, 126
John XXIII., excommunicates Hus, 193;
proclaims crusade against Naples, 195;
organises sale of indulgences, 195, 196;
his flight from Rome, 204;
his promise to Hus, 205;
his apology for Hus’s arrest, 207;
his crimes, flight, and deposition, 209
John, Bishop of Prague, his trial for heresy, 126, 127
John of Ragusa, his attacks on Utraquists, 302
John, Duke of Görlitz, helps Wenceslaus, 170, 171;
circumstances of his death, 171
John of Milheim founds Bethlehem chapel, 175
Joseph I., his desire for reform, 498
Joseph II., double character of his reforms, 499-500;
his emancipation of peasantry, 500, 501
Judith, Brac̆islav’s Queen, her marriage, 37;
her banishment, 43
Judith, Vladislav’s Queen, 62
Jury, growth of, in Bohemia in thirteenth century, 78-80
K
Khlesl, Bishop, his influence on Matthias, 437, 438;
his opposition to Z̆erotin, 456;
distrusted by Hapsburgs, 462;
circumstances of his fall, 469
Kladrau, 308
(see also Jakaubek)
Klostergrad (see Hroby)
Klattov, 384
Knights, Order of, Z̆iz̆ka’s relation to, 280-1;
their alliance with peasants in Hussite war, 361;
combine with nobles against towns, 362;
their independent position, 395-6
Kolin, 308
Köln, city, rights of, defended by Rudolf, 101
Köln, Archbishop of, his friendship for Ottakar II., 90;
goes over to Rudolf, 91;
turns against Rudolf, 101
Köln, Archbishop of, in time of Rudolf II., his ideas of war, 448, 449
Komensky (see Comenius)
Königinhof (see Králové Dvůr)
Koranda, his challenge to Pr̆zibram, 317;
compelled to submit to Rokycana, 321;
his embassy to Pope, 333
Korybut, 278, 280, 282
Kostka, of Postupic, 349, 356, 359
Kostel, first use of, in Bohemia, 8
Kovar, his discoveries, 505, 506
Krajek, Conrad of, zeal for Brotherhood, 380-4
Krajek, Ernst of, 401, 402
Krajek, Members of House of, 419-21
Králové Dvůr (Königinhof), school at, 501;
MSS. found at, 504-6
Krasa, burning of, 249
Kr̆ivoklāt (Pürglitz), 393, 398, 404
Krumau (see Krumov)
Krumov, influence of Rosenbergs in, 170;
Jesuit College at, 421, 423;
seized by Leopold, 450;
supports Ferdinand II., 468
Kunigunda, daughter of Bela, 86;
marries Ottakar II., 87;
reproaches him with yielding to Rudolf, 100;
calls in Otto, 108;
kidnapped, 109;
her second marriage and its results, 112
Kutna Hora, its silver mines, 116, 246;
meeting between Hus and Wenceslaus at, 184;
cruelties at, 246, 247;
conflicts between miners and charcoal burners at, 252, 253;
captured by Utraquists, 271;
Sigismund’s massacre at, 276;
rescued by Z̆iz̆ka, 277;
Utraquist debate at, 315-17;
Peter of Chelc̆ic summoned to, 344;
resistance of, to Ferdinand II., 487
L
Ladislaus, King of Hungary, invades Bohemia, 99;
invades Austria on behalf of Rudolf, 103
Ladislaus, King of Naples, his struggle with John XXIII., 195
Ladislaus, King of Poland, his struggle against Albert of Austria, 312-14
Ladislaus I., son of Albert, accepted as King of Bohemia, 314;
dispute as to his guardian, 315-18, 320;
circumstances of his reign, 323-5
Ladislaus II., his relations with the Brotherhood, 347, 355, 357-9
Lanczo, 46
Land Court of Moravia, importance of, 431, 434
Land Court of Bohemia, Ferdinand’s treatment of, 489, 490
Latin language, triumph of, 491;
Comenius’s reforms in, 491-3
(see also “Slavonic ritual”)
Lausitz, dispute between Bohemia and Saxony, 34;
secured to Bohemia by Ferdinand II., 64
Laws, Charles’s code of (see also Charles IV., Z̆upa, Towns)
Leopold, Archduke, his character and policy, 447-8;
his Passau insurrection and its results, 449-52
Leopold, Margrave of Austria, defeated at Mailberg, 49, 65
Leopold II., Emperor of Germany, his reforms, 501;
his attitude to Bohemian language, 503
Lev of Roz̆mital, his first rise and fall, 363;
his later tyranny, 369;
defied by Rosenberg, 371;
his resistance to Louis, 372;
bribed by Ferdinand, 373
Libus̆a, story of, 4-7;
re-discovery of MS. about, 505
Lichtenstein, Carl von, his conversion, 431;
relations of, with Z̆erotin, 435, 436;
with Berka, 434;
made Duke of Troppau, 463, 464;
approves Bohemian rising, 471
Lissa, Comenius at, 493
Lithuania, Duke of, his relations with Bohemia, 278
Litomys̆l, in time of Ottakar II., 82, 83;
persecution at, of Brotherhood, 392;
Jesuit influence in, 421
Litomys̆l, Bishop of, his treatment of Hus, 211;
opposed by Bohemian nobles, 211, 224;
his attempt to suppress heresy, 224;
his rejection as Bishop of Olmütz, 226
Lobkovic, friend of Hus, defends Bohemian claims, 184
Lobkovic, Chancellor of Rudolf II., his policy, 440, 444
Lobkovic, William of, throws Martinic out of window, 467
Loc̆ika, his treatment by Ferdinand II., 486, 487
Loket, privileges of, 395
Lothar, Duke of Saxony, elected Emperor, 52;
his struggle with Bohemia, 53, 54
Louis, grandson of Charles the Great, his struggles with the Bohemians, 8
Louis, of Bavaria, 121, 122, 125, 126, 129, 146, 147
Louis, son of above, 146-8
Louis, son of Ladislaus, weakness of his position, 362;
his reforms, 363;
relations of to Lutherans, 364, 369;
to Pas̆ek, 369, 371, 372;
circumstances of his death, 372
Ludmila, her influence on Wenceslaus, 22;
murdered by Drahomíra, 24
Ludanic, Wenceslaus of, 398-400
Luther, his feelings towards Hus, 364, 365;
his warnings to Utraquists, 366;
his relations with Gallus Cahera, 366-8;
with Bohemian Brotherhood, 382-4;
his friendship for Augusta, 383;
his final advice to him, 387
Lutherans, their treatment of exiled Brothers, 394, 395;
rivalry of Brotherhood with, 412, 414, 421, 441
Lukas of Prague modifies doctrine of Brotherhood, 350, 351;
controversy of Luther with, 382;
arrest and imprisonment, 360
Lupus, 303
Luxemburg, House of, rivalry with Hapsburgs, 118, 119;
jealousy felt towards, 172;
see also Henry, John, Charles, Sigismund
Lyons, Council of, 97
M
Magdeburg, limit of old Slavonic State, 19;
centre of German culture, 29;
Adalbert’s connection with, 30;
Municipal laws of, 72
Mainz, Archbishop Werner of, his relations with Rudolf and Ottakar, 91, 92, 102;
Archbishop of, in John’s time, 120-2
Mansfeld, Count of, his relations to Bohemia, 477, 480, 483
Margaret of Babenberg, her relations with Ottakar, 85, 86
Margaretha Maultasche, her relations with John and Louis, 146, 147
Maria Theresa, her effect in Bohemia, 498, 499
Martin V., his election as Pope, 229;
his dissolution of Council, 230;
his crusades against Bohemia, 249, 274, 280, 285, 288;
his death, 288
Martinic, 440, 441, 467
Matthias, King of Hungary, his relations with George, 328, 329, 332, 337-40;
with Ladislaus II., 347
Matthias of Kunvald, his attitude to Brotherhood, 350, 351
Matthias of Hapsburg, his relations with Rudolf, 427, 432, 433, 438, 449, 453;
his difficulties in Bohemia, 454-9;
his Hungarian policy, 457, 459;
elected Emperor, 458;
his town policy, 459, 460;
his attitude to Silesia, 463, 464;
his resignation of crown, 464
Matthias of Janov, his career, 174, 175
Matthias of Thurn (see Thurn)
Maximilian I., Emperor of Germany, his epigram on Charles, 144
Maximilian II., Emperor of Germany, Ferdinand’s relations with, 375;
his favour to Lutherans, 401;
his early policy, 409;
his change, 415
Maximilian, Archduke, his relation with Matthias, 458;
with Khlesl, 469
Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria, forms Catholic league, 448;
his relations with Ferdinand, 476-8
Meinhard of Tyrol, 98, 104
Meinhard of Neuhaus, his struggle with Procop, 303-5;
relations of, with Sigismund, 305, 306;
with George, 319;
his death, 319
Meissen, Margrave of, his claims to Austria, 84, 85
Meissen, later Margrave, conspires against Wenceslaus, 170
Meissen, in Utraquist wars, share of in invasions of Bohemia, 257, 273, 274
Mĕs̆ek of Poland, 35
Methodius converts Bulgarians, 9;
co-operates with Cyril, 9, 10;
made Archbishop, 10;
his relations with Svatopluk, 12-16;
with Vratislav, 22
Michael de Causis, his attacks on Hus, 200, 205, 215;
on Jerom, 225
Michael, Bishop of Brotherhood, 346
Milheim, John of, 175, 176
Milic of Kromĕr̆íz̆, his character and career, 159, 160
Milton, John, influenced by Comenius, 495, 496
Milota, Governor of Styria, 88, 104, 105
Mines, importance of in Bohemia, 78
Miners, self-government of, 78;
how destroyed, 487
Mistopol, his resistance to Ferdinand, 388
Mitmánek, his banishment, 388;
his injury to Brothers, 394
Mláda Boleslav, Brotherhood centred at, 351;
resists Ferdinand, 466
Mladenovich, Peter and Ulrich, their zeal for Hus, 212
Mojmir, son of Svatopluk, 17, 21
Moldau, 4
Monasteries, relations of, with towns, 81-3;
burning of, by Utraquists, 223, 233, 250
Monks banished from Prague, 233;
burnt by Z̆iz̆ka, 250, 268
Moravia, early Dukedom of, struggles with Frankish Empire, 8, 9;
final fall of, 21;
old kingship of revived, 59
Moravia, province of, conquered by Poland, 38;
relations of, to Vladislav, 55, 56;
municipal liberties of, 72, 76, 79;
treatment of by Rudolf, 107, 108;
Catholic element in, 236;
given to Albert of Austria, 282;
resistance of to King George, 330, 331, 338;
resistance of to Ladislaus, 358, 359;
to Ferdinand I., 375;
to Rudolph II., 428-36;
desire of for local independence, 457, 460;
quarrel with Silesia, 463;
attitude in final rising, 470, 471
Moritz, of Saxony (see Saxony)
Münsterberg, Karl of, 363, 369, 370
Mutina, of the Vrs̆ovici, his intrigues and death, 51, 52
N
Nations in the University of Prague, 134;
struggles with Germany and Bohemia, 161, 162, 178, 179, 183-88
Neuhaus, Adam of, 321
Nepomuc, John of, murder of, 167, 173, 191;
statue of, 486
Nicholaus of Pelhr̆imov, 297, 301, 310, 321
Nicholaus of Hus, his character and influence, 227;
helps to found Tabor, 231;
leads Taborite armies with Z̆iz̆ka, 243;
defeats Ulric of Rosenberg, 254;
his quarrels with Praguers, 265, 266;
his share in battle of Vys̆ehrad, 266, 267;
effect of his death, 269
Nobles, power of in Bohemia from tenth to thirteenth centuries, 29, 30, 36, 46, 55, 59, 60, 64;
how checked by rise of municipal liberties, 76, 79, 80;
resistance of to Vladislav, 55, 59;
checked by Ottakar II., 80;
resistance of to Wenceslaus II., 114-133;
their struggle with the towns, 120, 121;
their relations with Henry of Lipa, 121, 125;
resistance of to Charles IV., 140, 141;
their protest against Hus’s imprisonment, 207, 208;
their charges against Council of Constance, 222;
their attitude towards Utraquist movement, 236, 237, 242;
differences of with Sigismund’s German followers, 255;
desire for compromise with men of Prague, 259;
their final struggle with Z̆iz̆ka, 280-2;
their attitude towards the Brotherhood, 349, 351, 418-21 (see also Knights, Towns)
Nobles of Styria, resistance of to Ottakar II., 88, 98, 104
Nobles of Germany, their attacks on the clergy, 157, 158
Nobles of Moravia, their share in battle of Vys̆ehrad, 266;
opposed to deposition of Sigismund, 272;
compelled to recant Utraquism, 276
Nobles of Poland, their protest against Hus’s imprisonment, 207, 210
Nürnberg, Burggraf of (see Hohenzollern)
O
Ogra (see Eger)
Oldr̆ich, his marriage, 37;
his revival of Slavonic ritual, 37;
first Bohemian Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, 48
Oldr̆ich, rival of Vladislav, 57
Oldr̆ich of Znojem, 301
Olmütz, Tartars defeated near, 75;
relations of with George, 331, 338;
its support of Rudolf, 446;
supports Matthias, 459
Olomouci (see Olmütz)
Opava, its connection with Kunigunda, 107, 109, 112
Ordeal by battle, 80, 142
Ordeal by fire, 142
Orphans, 282, 283
Ottakar II., his claim on the nobles, 80;
his development of town life, 78-81;
his friendship for the Pope, 81, 83, 84;
his attitude to monasteries, 81, 82;
marriage, 85;
his conquest of Styria, 85, 86;
acquires Carinthia and Carniola, 87;
his treatment of Styrian nobles, 88;
his feeling to German Empire, 89;
refuses Imperial crown, 90;
intrigued against by Archbishop, 91-3;
protests against Rudolf’s election, 93-5;
his reliance on the towns, 99;
his struggle with Rudolf, 99-105;
his rumoured return, 111;
attempts to improve education, 133
Otto, son of Henry the Fowler, 27
Otto, brother of Sobeslav, 53
Otto Margrave of Brandenburg, his treachery and tyranny, 108-12;
summons representatives of towns, 121
Oxenstierna, 496, 497
P
Palacký, Frantis̆ek, his treatment of the Bohemian MS., 504, 506;
effect of his history, 506;
his political ideas, 508
Pálec̆, Stephen, defends Wyclif, 178;
arrested, 184;
supports indulgences, 197;
banished, 203;
opposes Hus, 203, 206, 208, 215, 217;
persecutes Jerom, 225
Paltram, burgomaster of Vienna, 99, 103
Pannonia, Methodius made archbishop of, 10;
Wiching, bishop of, 15;
claims of Arnulf over, 16
Papacy, relations of, with German Empire, 48, 49, 58, 62, 63, 64, 95;
attitude of Vratislav towards, 48, 50;
of Ottakar II. to, 81, 86, 93-95;
divisions in, 182, 183, 190, 204, 208, 209, 213, 214
Paris, attractions of, to John, 126;
to Charles IV., 131, 132
(see also University)
Passau, treaty of, 400;
the plot of, 449-52
Paul II., 336-8
Pavlavsky, Stanislaus, Bishop of Olmütz, 421, 422
Payne, Peter, his connection with Bohemia, 262;
relations with Taborites and Calixtines, 262, 297;
draws up articles, 277;
defends Wyclif, 284;
takes lead in Utraquist controversy, 297;
relations with Orphans, 297;
speech at Basel, 301;
called on to decide a question of doctrine, 310;
imprisoned and released, 315, 316;
final appearance, 316, 317;
takes refuge with Peter of Chelc̆ic, 344
Pas̆ek of Wrat, rise to power, 363;
tyranny, 368-73;
his overthrow, 378
Peasantry of Bohemia, zeal for King Vladislav, 60;
gradual loss of freedom, 68-70;
cruelties to, of Otto of Brandenburg, 109, 110;
Charles’s concessions to, 142, 143;
effect on, of Hussite wars, 361, 362;
attitude of, to insurrection, 473, 474, 476;
their rising in 1680, 498;
relieved by Maria Theresa, 499;
emancipated by Joseph II., 500, 501;
artistic power of, 507, 508
Peasantry of France and Germany, risings of in the thirteenth century, 154;
risings of in the fifteenth century, 293, 294
Pelc̆el, Frantis̆ek, his career, 501, 502
Pernstein, protector of Brotherhood, 356;
(Vratislav) friend to Jesuits, 421
Pes̆ina, Jesuit historian, 498
Peter of Rosenberg, his relations with George, 340;
tries to protect Brotherhood, 360;
his will, 371
Peter Vok, of Rosenberg, joins Brotherhood, 423;
chosen “Defender,” 445;
his advances to Christian, 455
Petrarch, his relations to Charles IV., 150, 151
Philibert, Bishop of Coutances, 308, 311
Philip, Emperor of Germany, relations to Pr̆emysl Ottakar I., 63
Philip of Carinthia, treatment of, by Pr̆emysl Ottakar II., 87
“Picard,” meaning of, 155
Pilatici, 15
Pilsen, restored by Albert, 115;
Z̆iz̆ka’s relations with, 247, 248;
scene of religious discussion, 285;
siege of, by Procop, 302, 303;
resistance of, to George, 320;
printing press established at, 357;
supports Ferdinand II., 468;
seized and held by Mansfeld, 477, 483
Pisa, Council of, 182, 183, 190
Pius II., Pope, his relations with George, 329, 330, 332-6
Poetry, growth of, in Bohemia in the sixteenth century, 416, 417
Poles, attitude of, to third crusade, 280
Poland, relations of with Bohemia, 29, 32, 34-8, 43, 115, 117;
Z̆iz̆ka’s sympathy with, 227;
settlement in, of Brotherhood, 394
Poland, King of, refuses Bohemian crown, 278 (see also Mes̆ek, Brac̆islav, Sigismund, Gnesen, &c.)
Pontanus, Jesuit poet, 418
Poric̆, settlement of German workmen in, 70, 71
Prachatice, influence of Rosenbergs in, 170;
Hus and Z̆iz̆ka at school at, 229
Prague, independent bishopric claimed for, 28, 128;
famine in, 111;
treatment of, by Otto, 109-12;
opposition of, to John, 125;
preachers of (see Milic, Conrad, Hus);
overcrowding of, 136;
Charles’s ideal for, 136, 137;
abandoned by Germans, 187;
laid under interdict, 223;
relations of, to Sigismund, 234, 235, 247;
character of its Utraquism, 237, 238;
sieges of, 243, 255-60, 266, 390, 451;
tyranny of Lev in, 363, 369, 371, 372;
national museum of, 503, 504
Prague, Bishops of (see Daniel, Arnestus, Zajíc, Jenstein, Rokycana)
Prague, Castle of, Wenceslaus IV. imprisoned in, 170;
betrayed by C̆enek, 250;
resists citizens, 252;
captured by Utraquists, 271;
imprisonment in, of Janovic, 384;
of Augusta, 393
Prague, new town of, foundation of, 136;
its peculiar character, 231;
first rising in, 232;
separation of from old town, 377;
centre of Budovĕc’s movement, 442, 443
Prague, University of (see University)
Prague, Four Articles of, 259, 265, 272, 276, 283, 300-2, 307, 388
Pr̆emysl, first King of Bohemia, 6, 7
Pr̆emysl Ottakar I., his relations with Empire, 63;
with Frederick II. of Germany, 63, 64;
with clergy, 64;
with the towns, 71, 72
Pr̆emysl Ottakar II., his career as Margrave, 64;
his conquest of Austria, 65, 66;
his accession (see Ottakar II.)
Pr̆emyslovc̆i, sketch of their career, 105, 106
Prerov, 491
Press, censorship of, 461, 484, 499, 500
Press (printing, invention of) (see Pilsen)
Procop, his victories, 282, 283, 285-89;
his character, 297;
appearance of, at Basel, 297-300;
struggle of, with nobles, 302, 303;
defeat and death, 304, 305
Protestants, Maximilian II.’s relations with, 401, 409, 413;
prevented by Dietrichstein, 431;
attitude of, in Austria, 433, 455, 456, 469, 471, 476;
rising of, in Bohemia, 467-69;
mistakes of their movement, 479-82;
persecution of, by Ferdinand II., 483-90;
Joseph II.’s treatment of, 499, 500
Prussia, annexation of, by Elector of Brandenburg, 153
Pr̆zibram, his first appearance, 259;
his advice about heresy, 270;
his attack on Wyclif, 283, 284;
his banishment from Prague, 284;
revival of his power, 303, 308;
his final debate, 317
Ptac̆ek, his oppressions, 315
Puchnic, treatment of, by Wenceslaus, 167
R
Ramée, Col., 450, 452
Raudnice, Castle of, 166
Reformation, causes of, in the fourteenth century, 154-56
Regensburg, German Archbishopric of, 8;
its relations to Methodius, 12
Regensburg, Bishop of, relations with St. Wenceslaus, 24
Rhine, Count Palatine of, suggested as candidate for Emperor, 91;
joins alliance against Ottakar, 92, 93;
helps in his first defeat, 99
Rhine, Rupert, Count Palatine of, 172-74
Rhine, Frederick IV., Count Palatine of, his relations with Z̆erotin, 445
Rhine, Frederick V., Count Palatine of (see Frederick, Winter King)
Richard of Cornwall, 86, 89
Rienzi (see Charles IV.)
Rohac, rebellion of, 311
Rokycana rouses people against Korybut, 284;
defends transubstantiation, 288;
leads Utraquists in controversy, 296, 297;
his speech at Basel, 300, 301;
opposed by Taborites, 303;
difference of, from Pr̆zibram, 306, 308;
chosen Archbishop, 308;
opposes Sigismund, 309;
secures free discussion between Calixtines and Taborites, 315;
asserts his authority over Taborites, 321;
friendship with George, 319;
disliked by Ladislaus, 324;
secures George’s election, 326;
George’s compromise about, 329;
his surrender demanded, 339;
his death, 340;
his favour towards Peter of Chelc̆ic, 344, 345;
subsequent persecution of Brotherhood, 345-47;
destruction of his statue, 486
Roman Catholics (see Catholics)
Rosenberg, importance of their family, 168-70 (see Henry, Ulric, William, Peter, and Peter Vok)
Rosice, meeting at, 433
Rostislav resists Frankish conversion, 8;
allied with Bulgarians, 8;
welcomes Cyril and Methodius, 10;
deposed and blinded, 11
Rüdiger, Ezrom, 422, 423
Rudolf I., his character and position, 92;
his election as Emperor, 92;
his relations with Ottakar, 94, 95, 100-5;
his position as conqueror, 107, 108;
his treatment of Kunigunda, 107;
of Wenceslaus, 108, 110;
his relations with the Pope, 97, 98;
his allies, 99, 102, 104;
his town policy, 92, 101, 102;
his relations with Austria, 97, 103;
effect of his death, 114;
his fear of Bohemian learning, 133
Rudolf, son of Albert, 117, 118;
position of his widow, 121
Rudolf II., Emperor of Germany, his encouragement of art, 415-18;
his early policy, 415, 418, 421, 424;
causes of his change, 425-27;
his struggle with Moravia (see Moravia and Z̆erotin);
his struggles with Protestants of Bohemia, 437-46;
his letter of Majesty, 446;
his final struggles and fall, 447-53
Ruppa, Wenceslaus of, President of Provisional Government, 468, 470, 479, 480
Rychnov (Reichenau), 394, 501
S
Sabovsky, 489
Sadlo, murder of, 277, 278
Sadova, 308
S̆afarik, Josef, 504, 506
Salzburg, bishops of, 17
Salzburg, Archbishop of, 98
Saxony, relations of Bohemia with, 29;
quarrels with Bohemia in the tenth century, 34;
its support of Henry III.’s invasion, 42
Saxony, Duke of, supports Siegfried of Anhalt, 92;
marries daughter of Rudolf, 93
Saxony, William of, his quarrel with Bohemia, 318;
his claim to throne of Bohemia, 325, 326, 330
Saxony, John Frederick of, his struggle with Ferdinand, 389, 390
Saxony, Moritz of, effect of his action on Bohemia, 389, 400
Sázava, Monastery of, 37, 50;
in eleventh and twelfth centuries, 69
Serfdom, growth of, in fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, 361;
petition against, 473, 476;
Joseph’s abolition of, 500, 501
Sigismund, enemy of the language, 2;
joins nobles, 167, 168;
persuades Wenceslaus to make him his heir, 271;
imprisons Wenceslaus, 174;
offers to arbitrate, 194;
election to the Empire, 203, 204;
grants safe-conduct to Hus, 204;
his first appearance at Constance, 208;
his changes about Hus, 208, 209, 213, 214, 216;
revokes safe-conduct, 209;
rebukes Council of Constance, 212;
attitude of nobles towards, 222;
statement about Hus’s death, 224;
his Turkish war, 233;
conditions proposed to, by Assembly, 234, 235;
attitude towards, of various parties, 236;
demands on citizens of Prague, 247;
his frequent lying, 249;
his burning of Krasa, 249;
appeals for first crusade, 252;
sends help to Kutna Hora, 252, 253;
flies before Taborites, 254;
accepts terms of Praguers, 259;
first coronation, 260, 261;
intrigues, 265;
renewed attacks on Prague, 266;
answer to Assembly in 1421, 272;
treatment of Moravian nobles, 266;
his battles at Kutna Hora, 276, 277;
eagerness for war with Bohemia, 292;
restored to the crown, 308;
quarrel with Rokycana, 309;
disgusts all parties, 310, 311;
rebellion against him, 311;
his death, 311
Sigismund, King of Poland, 363
Silesia, disputed about in tenth century, 34;
secured to Bohemia, 64;
invasion of Bohemia by, 273, 315;
claimed by Duke of Saxony, 325;
resists King George, 331, 332;
concessions of, to Ferdinand, 375;
relations of, with Bohemia in Rudolf’s time, 442, 446;
after succession of Matthias, 457;
rivalry of, with Moravia, 463, 464;
supports Bohemia against Ferdinand, 471
Slavata, 440, 441, 467
Slavery in Bohemia, 30, 69
Slavomir, 11
Slavonic feeling, 1, 2
Slavonic ritual, its introduction, 10;
German opposition to, 12-16;
strong feeling for, in Bohemia, 3;
Papal opposition to, 28;
its revival, 37;
suppressed by Spitihnĕv, 45;
revived by Vratislav, 50;
by Clement VI., 128
S̆metana, 508
Sobeslav, his struggle with Lothar, 53;
votes for Conrad, 54;
secures succession to Vladislav, 54
Sobeslav, later Duke, confirms grant to Poric̆, 71
Soliman the Great, capture of Belgrade, 372;
victory at Mohács, 372;
siege of Vienna, 377, 378
Sophia, friendship for Hus, 184, 192, 202;
appointed Regent, 233;
her dependence on Sigismund, 235, 236;
supported by C̆enek, 242;
protected by Ulrich, 243;
holds meeting at Brünn, 247
Spitihnĕv, son of Bor̆ivoj, 22
Spitihnĕv, son of Brac̆islav, persecutes Germans, 43, 44;
changes policy, 44;
suppresses Slavonic ritual, 45
Stanislaus of Znojem, defends Wyclif, 178;
denounces transubstantiation, 180;
arrested, 184;
turns against Wyclif and Hus, 196, 197;
banished, 203
Stephen, St., 32
Stephen, son of Bela, 89
Sternberg, Peter von, 248
Sternberg, Caspar von, 502, 504
Sternberg, Zdenek, 319, 334, 337-40
Sternberg, Adam of, 441, 443, 467
S̆títný, Thomas of, 161, 162, 255
Styria, conquest of, by Ottakar, 86;
rebellion in, 88, 98, 105;
Ferdinand’s government of, 462
Svatava, 53
Svatopluk of Moravia, his intrigues, 11;
becomes duke, 11;
his relations with Methodius, 12-16;
opposes Slavonic ritual, 12-14;
patronage of Wiching, 15;
struggle with Arnulf, 16;
estimate of, by Bohemian historians, 18, 21;
services to Moravia, 18;
struggle with Hungary, 20;
overthrow and death, 21;
legend about, 21
Svatopluk of Bohemia, his massacre of Vrs̆ovici, 51, 52
T
Taborites, differences of, from Hus, 222;
their character and organisation, 238, 239;
their first march to Prague, 242, 243;
their rough treatment of Prague citizens, 253;
their share in victory of Z̆iz̆ka Hora, 257, 261;
their Twelve Articles, 261, 262;
their savagery, 261, 267, 270;
their distrust of Sigismund, 262-64;
their chief point of difference from Calixtines, 269;
their attitude about transubstantiation, 270;
their Twenty-four Articles, 302;
overthrown at Lipaný, 305;
Sigismund’s treachery towards, 310;
their revival in struggle against Albert of Austria, 312, 315;
their last dispute with Calixtines, 315-17;
their final overthrow, 319-21;
feeling of Brotherhood towards, 411
Tabor, original foundation of, 229, 231;
made military centre by Z̆iz̆ka, 248, 249;
capture of, by George, 320;
seized by Leopold, 450;
conditional surrender of, to Ferdinand, 484
Tartars (see Genghis Khan)
Taus (see Domaz̆lic̆e)
Teyn Church, importance of, 160, 284, 486, 487
Thurn, Matthias von, his struggle against Rudolf, 441, 445;
against Leopold, 451;
against Ferdinand II., 471, 472, 479;
his character, 480
Tilly, General, attempt on Moravian liberty, 433, 434;
share in conquest of Bohemia, 477-9
Tobias, Bishop of Prague, his patriotism, 110, 112
Torture, use of, 80
Towns of Bohemia, rise of, under Pr̆emysl Ottakar I., 71-74;
under Wenceslaus, 76-79;
under Pr̆emysl Ottakar II., 80-83;
German influence in, 70-1;
educational effect of their liberties, 79, 80;
conflict of, with monastic privileges, 81-83;
effect of Tartar invasion on, 86;
quarrels in, between Germans and Bohemians, 110;
their claim to representation in Assembly, 120, 121;
their struggles with the nobles, 361, 362;
Matthias’s policy towards, 459;
treatment of, by Ferdinand II., 490;
by Joseph II., 500
Towns of Moravia raised into free cities, 108;
resistance of, to George, 330, 338
Towns of Germany, leagues of, 90
(see Rudolf of Hapsburg)
Trade, Ottakar’s attitude towards, 81;
Ferdinand’s destruction of, 487, 491
Transubstantiation attacked by Stanislaus, 180;
defended by Zajíc, 181;
attitude of Hus towards, 180, 181, 214;
denounced by Hauska, 270;
defended by Taborites, 270, 271;
opposed by Brothers, 345, 348
Transylvania, first conquest of, by Hungarians, 20;
Rudolf II.’s relations to, 425-28;
Matthias’s struggles against, 457, 458, 462
(see also Bethlen Gabor)
Tr̆ebon̆, influence on, of Rosenbergs, 170;
Protestant meeting at, 456
Trier, Archbishop of, 90, 102
Troppau, dispute about, 463, 464
Tschernembl, George Erasmus von, leads Austrian Protestants, 433;
his attitude to Z̆erotin, 433, 455;
to Matthias, 455, 456;
to Ferdinand, 471;
to the serfs, 476;
in the final struggle, 479
Turks, struggles with, 330, 335, 372, 376, 378, 380, 407, 415
Tyrol, Charles’s invasion of, 146
Tycho Brahe, his influence on Rudolf, 416, 426, 427
(see Meinhard, Margaretha)
U
Ulrich of Carinthia, 87
Ulric of Rosenberg, his relation with C̆enek, 241;
his grounds of opposition to Utraquists, 242;
his defeat, 254;
returns to Utraquists, 271;
again joins Sigismund, 278;
sows division, 291, 317
Ulric of Znojem (see Oldr̆ich)
Universities, proposed arbitration by, 448, 449
University of Prague founded by Charles, 133-34, 137;
its treatment of Wyclif’s works, 178-181;
attitude towards Brotherhood, 347, 348;
claim of Protestants over, 444;
turned into Jesuit college, 484 (see also Nations, Germans)
University of Wittenberg, moral decline of, 414 (see also Augusta)
University of Oxford, Jerom’s appearance at, 198
University of Heidelberg, Jerom’s appearance at, 198;
liking of Brotherhood for, 414, 435
University of Paris, model of Prague University, 132, 133;
Jerom’s appearance at, 198, 199
University of Bologna, gives some hints to Prague University, 133;
denounces burning of Wyclif’s books, 193
Urban IV., Pope, sanctions Ottakar’s marriage with Kunigunda, 87
Urban VI., relations of, with Wenceslaus IV., 164
Utraquism, first hint of, 174;
first introduction of, by Jakaubek, 208;
denounced by Bishop of Litomys̆l, 211;
condemnation of, by Council of Constance, 216, 217;
denounced by Archbishop of Prague, 223;
championship of, by King George, 333, 334;
movement compared with Puritan, 341;
decline of its influence, 408, 409;
demands for by Budovĕc and his friends, 444, 446
Utraquists, their difference from Hus, 221;
their disregard of the interdict, 223;
Wenceslaus’s attitude towards, 223, 224;
first debate of with Catholics, 259;
divisions among, 226, 227, 253, 268, 269;
their feelings towards Council of Basel, 291-4;
arrival of representatives at Basel, 297, 298;
persecution of by Sigismund, 309-11;
their relations with George, 326, 335;
with the Brotherhood, 348, 355, 359, 384, 386, 391;
with Luther, 364-68;
their later attitude towards Compacts of Basel, 385, 386;
their resistance to Ferdinand, 388-91
V
Václav (see Wenceslaus)
Vladislav, his accession to the throne, 55;
his reforming zeal, 55;
his struggle against the nobles, 56, 57, 60;
his alliance with the German Empire, 57, 58;
his relations with Barbarossa, 57, 61, 62;
his exaltation to the regal title, 59
Vladislav, son of Wenceslaus I., 65, 66
Velké Mezir̆íc̆í, school at, 422
Victor the Chronicler, his attacks on Ottakar II., 88
Vienna, growth of, under Ottakar II., 85;
capture of, by Rudolf, 99;
conspiracy in, 103;
besieged by Soliman, 378;
proposed assembly at, 407;
besieged by Thurn, 471, 472;
growth of its power under Ferdinand, 490
Vilegrad, convent of, 82
Vítkovici, 168, 169
Vodnian, 384
Vojtĕch (see Adalbert)
Vratislav, son of Bor̆ivoj, 22-24
Vratislav, son of Brac̆islav, reverses Spitihnĕv’s policy, 45;
appoints Saxon bishop, 46;
opposes his brothers, 46;
his relation with Hildebrand, 47;
his alliance with Henry IV., 48, 49;
his encouragement of trade and culture, 50;
becomes king, 49;
revives Slavonic ritual, 50;
resistance to his policy, 46, 50;
his grant of liberties to Poric̆, 70
Vrs̆ovici, their position and character, 29, 30;
opposition to Adalbert, 30-32;
attitude to Boleslav III., 36;
massacre by Svatopluk, 51
Vys̆ehrad, Pr̆emysl’s boots at, 7;
meeting of nobles in, 54;
Catholic pilgrimages to, 223;
capture of by Z̆iz̆ka, 242;
surrendered to queen, 244;
resists C̆enek, 250;
struggles of Utraquists about, 264-67
W
Waldenses, their relations with Brotherhood, 411
Waldhauser (see Conrad)
Waldstein, Has̆ek of, 279
Wars, religious, early protest against, 241
Wars, Hussite, ultimate effect of, 361;
attitude of Brotherhood to, 342, 352, 428-30
Wenceslaus, St., influenced by Ludmila, 24;
inability to resist heathen reaction, 24;
good and bad points in his character, 24-26;
desires to become a monk, 25;
his death, 26;
attitude of Emperor towards him, 26;
honour done to his memory, 28;
appealed to at the battle of Chlum, 53;
offer of royal title to, 58;
his tomb rifled by Germans, 109
Wenceslaus, treaty of, in 1517, 362
Wenceslaus I., King of Bohemia, resistance of nobles to, 64;
resistance of, to Genghis Khan, 75;
relations of with Austria, 65, 84;
encouragement of town life by, 76, 78
Wenceslaus II., treatment of, by Rudolf, 107;
by Otto, 109, 111;
his return to Bohemia, 112;
marriage, 113;
his relation with Zavis̆, 113, 114;
his war with Poland, 115;
relations with Albert of Austria, 114-16;
his claims on Hungary, 115, 116;
his resistance to the Pope, 116;
attempts to promote education, 133
Wenceslaus III., his character and death, 116, 117
Wenceslaus IV. contrasted with Charles, 163;
effects of his faults, 164-170;
policy towards the Pope, 164, 182-84;
towards King of France, 164;
towards clergy, 165-67, 173, 184, 189, 190, 199, 223, 224;
treatment of Archbishop of Prague, 165-67;
his murder of John of Nepomuc, 167;
his treatment of nobles, 168-70;
made prisoner by them, 170, 171;
his relation with his brother John, 171;
with Sigismund, 171, 174, 194, 203, 204, 223, 224;
opposition to him in German Empire, 172-174;
his second imprisonment and escape, 174;
his attitude towards Council of Pisa, 182-184;
resistance of Germans to, 185-87;
uncertain attitude towards Reformation, 184, 190, 192, 197, 199, 202, 223, 224;
sanction to increase in Bohemian votes, 185;
enforcement of decree, 187;
violence against supporters of Gregory XII., &c., 189, 190;
protects Hus against John XXIII., 194;
sanctions the Bull in favour of the crusade, 197;
his suspicions of Nicholaus and Z̆iz̆ka, 227-29;
his attempted compromise, 230;
his demand for surrender of arms, 230;
his deposition of Town Councillors, 231;
circumstances of death, 232, 233
Wenceslaus of Duba, his protection of Hus, 204, 212;
his last advice to Hus, 217;
leads Catholic party, 236;
makes terms with Z̆iz̆ka, 248;
heads embassy to Sigismund, 252;
defeated at Porc̆ic, 253
Werner (see Mainz)
Westphalia, peace of, Comenius’s discontent at, 497
Wiching, his struggles against Methodius, 15, 16
William of Holland, 66, 89
William of Rosenberg, his favour to Jesuits, 418;
his persecution of Brothers, 421;
effect of his death, 423
Wittenberg (see Luther)
Wittingau (see Tr̆ebon̆)
Wlitawa (see Moldau)
Wyclif, his relations with Bohemia, 177, 178;
Hus’s feelings towards, 180, 181, 212;
decision of Bohemian nation about, 181;
attacks of Pr̆zibram upon, 283, 284
Z
Zajíc (Zbynĕk), Archbishop of Prague, 179;
condemns Wyclif’s works, 181;
resists Wenceslaus, 183;
burns Wyclif’s books, 193;
again attacked by King, 194;
his death, 194
Zapolya, 376
Z̆atec, 274
Zavis̆ of Falkenstein, his connection with Kunigunda, 112;
final intrigues and death, 113
Zbornik, John, 384, 385
Zdík, Bishop of Olmütz, 55
Zelená Hora, discoveries at, 505, 506, 508
Z̆erotin, John of, defends Brotherhood against Ladislaus, 358
Z̆erotin, Frederick of, protects Rüdiger, 423
Z̆erotin, Charles of, influence on him of Brotherhood, 428-30;
his relations with Henry of Navarre, 430;
driven from office, 432;
relations of, with Hungarians and Austrians, 432, 433;
with Christian of Anhalt, 435;
dislike of religious wars, 436;
eagerness for alliance with Moravia, Hungary, and Austria, 436, 456, 464;
his able government in Moravia, 454, 455;
his quarrel with Khlesl, 457, 458;
his opposition to Matthias, 459, 463;
his loyalty to House of Hapsburg, 461, 469;
his desire for Moravian independence, 460;
his resignation of captaincy of Moravia, 464;
opposes Bohemian rising, 469, 471;
his resistance to Ferdinand’s tyranny, 487-90;
his protection of Comenius, 491, 492
Z̆iz̆ka of Troc̆nov fights for Poles, 227;
schoolfellow of Hus, 229;
scene with Wenceslaus, 230;
his share in outbreak of 1419, 231, 232;
estimate of his character, 239, 240;
his capture of Vys̆ehrad, 242, 243;
of the small division of Prague, 243;
his victory at Sudomír, 248, 249;
burns monks alive, 250;
defeats Wenceslaus of Duba, 253;
his share in the battle of Z̆iz̆kov Hora, 257, 258;
moderation towards Calixtines, 267;
questionable conduct at R̆íc̆an, 268;
defeats men of Meissen, 274;
frightens away crusaders, 274;
surrounded at Kutna Hora, 276;
finally defeats Sigismund, 277;
his final struggle with nobles, 280-82;
his death and its effect, 282, 283;
his dust dug up, 486
Znaym (see Znojem)
Znojem, scene of Sigismund’s death, 311;
relations of with King George, 331, 338
Z̆upa, early importance of, 68;
decline of, 69
THE GRESHAM PRESS, UNWIN BROTHERS, WOKING AND LONDON.