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George of Poděbrady – a painting by Alfons Mucha showing Cardinal Fantin explaining the Catholic Church's position on George's election.
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* 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 Kunštát and Poděbrady ( 23 April 1420 – 22 March 1471 ), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad (; ), was King of Bohemia ( 1458 – 1471 ).
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.
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.
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