The excommunicated George of Podébrady, to preserve …
Years: 1471 - 1471
The excommunicated George of Podébrady, to preserve his imperiled throne, enters into negotiations with Polish King Casimir IV, sacrificing his sons’ succession rights and naming the Polish king’s young son as his successor.
In the midst of the struggle with the papacy, the Catholic nobles, and Hungarian monarch Matthias Corvinus, the Catholic nobility’s choice for king of Bohemia, George dies on March 22, 1471.
On May 27, King Casimir’s fifteen-year-old son is chosen king of Bohemia as Uladislas (or Vladislav) II.
Locations
People
- Casimir IV Jagiellon
- George of Poděbrady
- Matthias Corvinus
- Vladislaus II, King of Bohemia and King of Hungary and Croatia
Groups
- Hungarian people
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Czechs [formerly Bohemians] (West Slavs)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Bohemia, Kingdom of
- Hungary, Kingdom of
- Poland of the Jagiellonians, Kingdom of
- Hussites
- Holy Roman Empire
Topics
- Bohemian Reformation
- Ottoman–Hungarian Wars
- Renaissance Papacy
- Turkish wars of Matthias Corvinus (1458–1490)
- Bohemian Civil War of 1465-71
- Bohemian War (1468–78)
