5.6.1436 Compact concludes the Hussite wars

At the beginning of June 1436, a congress began in Jihlava to finally put an end to the protracted Hussite wars. The parties concerned finally came to an agreement and the Hussites accepted Sigismund as King of Bohemia.Heapparently did not expect this himself, as he did not bring the crown jewels.

The Hussite movement was not internally united and there was growing pressure in the country to finally end the protracted wars and to compromise with the Council. Thus, without the knowledge of the radicals, the so-called Compact was born, a thinned and moderated program of the four articles of the Praguewhich was gradually agreed upon by representatives of the Council, the Catholic Church in Bohemia and the moderate Hussites. But many saw this "agreement" as a betrayal of the revolutionary radicals in light of the victories and sacrifices of the Hussites.

At the end of 1433, the compact was also approved by the provincial assembly, which also elected a provincial government to maintain peace in the kingdom. However, this left the field armies in a difficult situation and the decision had to be implemented by armed conflict - the Battle of Lipany. In that battle, the field troops suffered a crushing defeat, which ended in their physical destruction, and everything was heading towards peace with Sigismund. The following two years saw complex negotiations between all parties.

The expected Diet began on 5 June 1436 in Jihlava. The negotiations lasted a month. The Council was finally willing to admit the Bohemians to receive the chalice if they conformed to the teachings of the Catholic Church on other points. The compact, a compromise text, was thus read publicly in Czech, Latin, Hungarian and German.

"At the end, the hymn "We praise thee God" was sung, a solemn service was held in the parish church, and the Czech representatives went to the Pražan tavern, where they sang together"St. Wenceslas, Duke of the Czech Land"," Stanislava Jarolímková recounts the events in her book What is not in the textbooks.

Since the Hussites gave Sigismund credit for this important and long-awaited confirmation of their innocence, they finally accepted him as King of Bohemia. "He himself may not have expected it, so he "forgot" to bring the Czech crown jewels, which did not arrive until 10. Jarolímková writes.

It happened again on the square in Jihlava. All day and all night, bells rang through the town, fires burned, Sigismund was said to have wept with joy and walked around the town like a young man. On 23 August, the sixty-eight-year-old king was solemnly welcomed in Prague. He attended a service in the Hussite church, the then-under-construction Týn Cathedral, and headed to the King's Court, or, according to anotheraccording to other sources, to the corner of Celetná and Ovocný trh, which after 1453 belonged to Johanna of Rožmital, the first wife of George of Poděbrady.

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