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George of Kunštát and Poděbrady ( 23 April 1420 – 22 March 1471 ), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad (; ), was King of Bohemia ( 1458 – 1471 ).
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George and Kunštát
George was the son of Victor of Kunštát and Poděbrady, a Bohemian nobleman, one of the leaders of the Orphans or Utraquists, the more moderate faction of the Hussites during the Hussite Wars.
Viktorin of Kunštát, son of the Czech king George of Poděbrady who bestowed Polná significant town rights and the coat of arms, got Polná by marriage with Žofie Ptáčková ( Sofia Ptáček, daughter of Hynek Ptáček ).
George and Poděbrady
* 1458 – George of Poděbrady is chosen as the King of Bohemia.
In 1451 he undertook a mission to Bohemia and concluded a satisfactory arrangement with the Hussite leader George of Poděbrady.
Pius II was also engaged in a series of disputes with the Bohemian King George of Poděbrady and the Sigismund of Austria ( who was excommunicated for having arrested Nicholas of Cusa, Bishop of Brixen ).
* March 22 – George of Poděbrady, first elected King of Bohemia ( b. 1420 )
Defeated in this struggle, which was concluded in 1462, Albert made an alliance with his former enemy, George of Poděbrady, King of Bohemia, a step which caused Pope Paul II to place him under the ban.
After the election of George of Poděbrady to the Czech throne following the Hussite wars, a new cultural wave swept into Bohemia.
Pope Paul rejected King George of Poděbrady of Bohemia because he upheld the conventions of the Council of Basel in favor of the Utraquists.
After the war, Forman attended the elite King George boarding school in the spa town Poděbrady, where his fellow students included Václav Havel, the Mašín brothers and future film-makers Ivan Passer and Jerzy Skolimowski.
In the meantime, John Hunyadi acted as regent for Ladislaus in Hungary, while George of Poděbrady performed the same office in Bohemia.
Ladislaus's cousins Frederick V and Albert VI succeeded him in Austria ; Hungary elected Matthias Corvinus, the brother of Ladislaus Hunyadi, as king ; and Bohemia elected George of Poděbrady, the only Hussite ruler of that kingdom.
George of Poděbrady – a painting by Alfons Mucha showing Cardinal Fantin explaining the Catholic Church's position on George's election.
The historical importance of the city of Tábor ceased only when it was captured by King George of Poděbrady in 1452.
In the late 15th century, queen consort Johana of Rožmitál, wife of King George of Poděbrady, had a castle erected on the ruins.
Matthias was taken hostage by George of Poděbrady, governor of Bohemia, a friend of the Hunyadis who aimed to raise a national king to the Hungarian throne.
Soon after his coronation, Matthias turned his attention upon Bohemia, where the Hussite leader George of Poděbrady had gained the throne.
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The Taborite party never recovered from its defeat at Lipany, and after the town of Tábor had been captured by George of Poděbrady in 1452, Utraquist religious worship was established there.
In 1459 was elevated by king of Bohemia George of Poděbrady to County, but still remained integral part of Bohemia as " outer region ", and was not counted as part of Silesia.
George of Poděbrady, later to become the " national " king of Bohemia, emerged as leader of the Utraquist regency.
Ladislaus died of the plague in 1457, and in 1458 the Bohemian estates elected George of Poděbrady as king.
Czech Catholic nobles joined in the League of Zelena Hora in 1465, challenging the authority of George of Poděbrady ; the next year, Pope Paul II excommunicated George.
George of Poděbrady died in 1471.
George and 23
* Lara has scored an 20 % of his team runs, a feat surpassed only by Bradman ( 23 %) and George Headley ( 21 %).
Mountbatten was appointed a Personal Naval Aide-de-Camp to King George VI on 23 June 1936, and, having joined the Naval Air Division of the Admiralty in July 1936, he attended the coronation of King George VI in May 1937.
# Barbara ( 24 September 1495, Ansbach – 23 September 1552 ), married in Plassenburg on 26 July 1528 to Landgrave George III of Leuchtenberg.
George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.
# Margaret ( 29 September 1511 – 1577 ), married on 23 January 1530 George I, Duke of Pomerania and after his death in 1534 John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.
* 1991 – Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
In another passage 23 chapters later, the author ( probably George Puttenham ) speaks of aristocratic writers who, if their writings were made public, would appear to be excellent.
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Although he was considered innocent and released on 22 December 2001, he was declared a terrorist by U. S. President George W. Bush in his televised address on 23 December 2001.
Saint George ( c. 275 / 281 – 23 April 303 ) was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier from Syria Palaestina and a soldier in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr.
* Greatmartyr, Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George Orthodox icon and synaxarion for April 23
Then McNair scrambled 23 yards to the 2-yard line, setting up a 1-yard touchdown run by George two plays later.
A crisis erupted over the writs of assistance on December 27, 1760 when the news of King George II's October 23 death arrived in Boston.
A few came in the form of jury instructions, such as the statement issued on April 23, 1776, by Chief Justice William Henry Drayton of South Carolina: " the law of the land authorizes me to declare ... that George the Third, King of Great Britain ... has no authority over us, and we owe no obedience to him.
On December 23, 2008, President George W. Bush signed the bill into law.
* September 23 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford opens to limited release in the U. S.
* July 1 – 3 – American Civil War: Union forces under George G. Meade turn back a Confederate invasion by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg, the largest battle of the war ( 28, 000 Confederate casualties, 23, 000 Union ).
* April 23 – George Lopez, American actor and comedian
* November 23 – George Callaghan, British admiral ( b. 1852 )
* January 23 – Laird of Johnstone, George Ludovic Houston invites people to buy marked plots of land which, when built upon, form the planned town of Johnstone, Scotland, to provide employment for his thread and cotton mills.
* May 23 – George Jessel, American actor ( b. 1898 )
* September 23 – Dan George, First Nations actor ( b. 1899 )
* August 23 – George Kell, baseball player ( d. 2009 )
* August 23 – Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, forerunner of the Coldstream Guards.
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