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    What We Learned From… The 1419–34 Hussite Wars

    Nov 23, 2021 2 minutes

    n 1415 Roman Catholic Church officials condemned Czech Christian theologian and reformer Jan Hus for heresy and burned him at the stake. But attempts to suppress his followers (Hussites) in the Kingdom of Bohemia failed. When King Sigismund of Hungary inherited the throne of Bohemia in 1419, he sought Pope Martin V’s aid in

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