Hussite Wars

The Hussite wars were religious wars in Bohemia and The Holy Roman Empire and other Catholic states against the Hussites.

After the Prague defenestration which was caused by people being angry at King Sigismund for allowing Jan Hus to be torched,

the Pope Martin V. declared a Crusade* /křížovou výpravu/ against the Hussites for not being loyal to the Catholic church.

Some Hussites wanted to negotiate with the Catholics while other Hussites did not want to do that, so they split into two factions*/frakce/:

The Utravists who wanted to negotiate and the Taborits who were Radicals (where Žižka was in charge) that rejected the Catholic church*/církev/. When the Holy Roman Empire and some other minor kingdoms were trying to clamp down* /přitvrdit/ on the Hussites, the two factions united to defend* /spojily se, aby bránily/ Prague and all of Bohemia. On the 14th of June 1420 when Hussites controlled Prague were encircled*/byli obklíčeni/ by the Crusaders, the invading* /invazní/ armies decided to attack the Vítkov hill. The Crusaders had around 8000 Men while the Hussites had around 100 to 200 people in a wagon and Jan Žižka, yet they still managed to win against the Crusaders. Many other battles happened when the Hussites won in the first war. In a couple of months all of Bohemia was controlled by the Hussites. After the first Crusade ended, the second one began, which ended similarly to the first one, the Crusaders being pushed out of Bohemia by the Hussites. While Bohemia was at peace, the two factions were infighting* /zápolily/ for the control of the kingdom.