The Hussite Wars
WHAT WERE THE HUSSITE WARS?
Sometimes known as the Hussite Revolution or the Bohemian Wars, the Hussite Wars lasted roughly 15 years, between 1419 and 1434. They were fought between a coalition of Catholic forces - backed by the pope, the Bohemian king (and later Holy Roman Emperor) Sigismund and numerous Catholicfriendly European states - and a group known as the Hussites, who represented a precursor to the Martin Luther-led Protestant Reformation a century later.
The Hussites were devoted followers of Jan Hus, a theologian and religious reformer from
