The chalice of wine became the central identifying symbol of the Hussite movement.

From that time, the Taborites lost their importance, though the Hussite movement would continue in Poland for another five years, until the Royalist forces of Poland defeated the Polish Hussites at the Battle of Grotniki.

* Notes on the Hussite movement and links to primary sources, from Kenyon college

Shortly after his death, the great Hussite movement arose and spread through Middle Europe.

The faculty of arts became a centre of the Hussite movement, and the chief doctrinal authority of the Utraquists.

These included the Fraticelli and Waldensian movements in Italy, and the Hussite movement in Bohemia ( inspired by John Wycliff in England ).

* May 4 – Battle of Grotnik: The Hussite movement is defeated in Poland.

The defeat of the non-Catholic forces marked the end of militant Hussite movement in Poland and the beginning of a complete consolidation of power in the Polish Kingdom by bishop Zbigniew.

He later arrived at Tábor, the then-recently established stronghold of the Hussite movement.

The Hussite Wars became one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation and though predominantly a religious movement it was also propelled by social issues and strengthened Czech national awareness.

Islam and the Hussite movement in Bohemia are represented.

The Hussite movement assumed a revolutionary character as soon as the news of the execution of Jan Hus by order of the Council of Constance ( 6 July 1415 ) reached Prague.

Under the influence of his brother Sigismund, King Wenceslaus IV ( Václav in Czech, Wenzel in German ) of Bohemia endeavoured to stem the Hussite movement.

Moreover, the conspicuously democratic character of the Hussite movement caused the German princes, who were afraid that such views might extend to their own countries, to desire peace.

An end to the Polish Hussite movement in Poland would arrive as well: the Polish Hussites, often reinforced by their Czech Slav brethren, had been raiding there for years, and the royal Polish forces under Władysław III of Varna would defeat the Hussites at the Battle of Grotniki, bringing the Hussite Wars to an end.

All histories of Bohemia devote a large amount of space to the Hussite movement.

Famously, Czech Taborites ( radical section of the Hussite movement ) in the 15th century attempted to build a society of shared property in the city of Tábor in south Bohemia.

Hus was executed, but his preaching and writings were instrumental in the formation of the Hussite movement.

The roots of this radical and pacifistic stream within the early Hussite movement go back to Petr Chelčický.

The Hussite movement ( 1402 – 85 ) was a national, as well as a religious, manifestation.

The Hussite movement is also viewed by many Czechs as a part of the ( worldwide ) Protestant Reformation.

Chelčický has been called " the foremost thinker of the 15th-century Czech Hussite Reformation movement.

The publication of the work was hindered by the police-censorship, which was especially active in criticizing his account of the Hussite movement.

Czech literature is divided into roughly ten main time periods: the Middle Ages ; the Hussite period ; the years of re-Catholicization and the baroque ; the Enlightenment and Czech reawakening in the 19th century ; the avantgarde of the interwar period ; the years under Communism and the Prague Spring ; and the literature of the post-Communist Czech Republic.

After the election of George of Poděbrady to the Czech throne following the Hussite wars, a new cultural wave swept into Bohemia.

King Albert was succeeded by his posthumously born son Ladislaus, during whose reign Bohemia was divided into two parties: the party faithful to Rome, led by Oldřich of Rosenberg ( 1403 – 1462 ), and the Hussite party, led by George.

Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha ( or Johann Schischka ; ) ( c. 1360 – 1424 ), Czech general and Hussite leader, follower of Jan Hus, was born at small village Trocnov ( now a part of Borovany ) in Bohemia, into a gentried family.

When the Hussite army faced a numerically superior opponent they prepared carts for the battle by forming them into squares or circles.

The nobles, sympathetic to the Hussite cause, but supporting the regent, promised to act as mediators with Sigismund, while the citizens of Prague consented to restore to the royal forces the castle of Vyšehrad, which had fallen into their hands.

Throughout the Hussite Wars, especially under the leadership of Prokop the Great, invasions were made into Silesia, Saxony, Hungary, Lusatia, and Meissen.

In 1433, a Hussite army of 7, 000 fighting men marched through Neumark into Prussia and captured Dirschau on the Vistula River.

Hussite troops with flails on the march However, these weapons often featured anti-personnel studs or spikes embedded in the striking end, so they were not always simple agricultural tools snatched up in a hurry by rural insurrectionists: turning these implements into weapons required some effort and skill.

As a consequence of the Hussite victory on Vítkov, the crusaders lost any hope of starving the city into submission and their army disintegrated.

In order to tackle financial burdens resulting from the Hussite wars and military campaigns against the Ottoman Empire, King Sigismund put lower value silver coins into circulation in Hungary.

The Monastery of the Holy Savior, renamed the Monastery of St. Agnes, () began to fall into decline after the Hussite Wars of the 15th century.

The city developed with great rapidity, and at the outbreak of the Hussite Wars in 1419 was the second most important city in Bohemia, after Prague, having become the favourite residence of several Bohemian kings.

Town and monastery were devastated several times, by fires as well as by the plague, but also by Hussite troops in 1430.

During the Hussite wars the city was several times besieged and conquered.

Hrad included organizations such as Czechoslovak Unity of Legionnaires ( Československá obec legionářů-soldiers from the Czechoslovak Legions ), Legiobanka ( a large bank ), the Czechoslovak Hussite Church which Masaryk helped to establish, individual entrepreneurs, politicians from several parties and influential journalists like Ferdinand Peroutka and Karel Čapek ).

The village was destroyed several times during the Hussite wars and the Ottoman occupation of Hungary.

Sigismund was one of the driving forces behind the Council of Constance that ended the Papal Schism, but which in the end also led to the Hussite Wars that dominated the later period of Sigismund's life.

Works defending Catholicism and attacking the Hussite utraquists were also written, one example being Jan Rokycana's works.

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.

Early in life, as one of the leaders of the Hussite party, he defeated the Austrian troops of the King Albert II, who had succeeded King Sigismund as King of Bohemia, Germany and Hungary.

As early medieval slavery did not exist already, and serfdom was not known yet-it was gradually introduced only after the Hussite wars by the victorious nobility-Ottokar can be safely called that one of Czech rulers, who did the most for real equality of people before empress Maria-Theresa ( 1740 – 1780 ) and emperor Josef II ( 1780 – 1790 ).

Unable to maintain himself there he marched to southern Bohemia, and after defeating the Catholics at the battle of Sudoměř ( 25 March 1420 ) in the first pitched battle of the Hussite wars, he arrived at Ústí, one of the earliest meeting-places of the Hussites.

Prokop or Prokop the Great () ( b. about 1380 at Hýlov near Tábor – d. 30 May 1434 at Lipany ) was one of the most prominent Hussite generals of the Hussite Wars.

Meanwhile, as a governor of Prague, he dismissed the city's council, summoned a new one and succeeded to terminate the internal discords between Jan Žižka and Utraquists, enabling a successful Hussite military campaign to Moravia against Emperor Sigismund.

He was a very popular priest, and led the Hussite procession through the streets of Prague that ended in the First Defenestration of Prague, which was one of the events that triggered the Hussite Wars.