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Group: League of the Ten Jurisdictions
People: Frederick I, Duke of Austria
Topic: Byzantine Civil War of 1341-47
Location: Eynsham Oxfordshire United Kingdom

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.