Taborite

They united with Taborite Hussites and decided to defend against the emperor.

On 22 May Taborite forces entered Prague.

Two years later he was captured and imprisoned at Gutenstein, but was ransomed by his Taborite friends.

As a consequence of the battle, the Taborite army was markedly weakened, and the Orphans virtually ceased to exist as a military force.

During the struggle against Sigismund, Taborite armies penetrated into areas of modern-day Slovakia as well.

On the 4th of April 1420, Taborite forces destroyed Catholic forces in Mladá Vožice.

Jesus Taborite (Broadcast Engineer)

After release from prison in 1428, Sigismund participated in Taborite battles in Silesia.

Even though Taborite theologians were versed in scholastic theology, they were among the first intellectuals to break free from centuries-old scholastic methods.

In 1440, the castle came into the hands of the Taborite robber baron Jan Kolda of Žampach.

Prokop now called to his aid Prokop the Lesser, who had succeeded him in the command of the Taborite army before Plzen.

The Taborite faction of the Hussite warriors were basically infantry, and their many defeats of larger armies with heavily armored knights helped effect the infantry revolution.

On 31 October 1425, Meinhard fought at Kamenice against a Taborite army led by Andreas Prokop and Bohuslav of Schwanberg.

The Battle of Hořice (German name: Horschitz) was fought on April 27, 1423 between the Taborite and Utraquist factions of the Hussites.

Though a priest and continuing to officiate as such, he became the most prominent leader of the advanced Hussite or Taborite forces during the latter part of the Hussite wars.

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.

On 30 May of that year the Taborite army, led by Prokop the Great and Prokop the Lesser, who both fell in the battle, was totally defeated and almost annihilated at battle of Lipany.

After that battle, nearly all forms of Hussite revival were Utraquist, as seen with George of Podebrady, who even managed to bring the city of Tábor, the famous Taborite stronghold, to convert to Utraquism.

High ground was also employed in the 1423 Battle of Horic in Bohemia, where Taborite soldiers took to high ground, forcing the Utraquist cavalry to dismount to attack them, and also rendering their cannons ineffective.

The fighting ended after 1434, when the moderate Utraquist faction of the Hussites defeated the radical Taborite faction, agreed to submit to the authority of the King of Bohemia and the Church, and were allowed to practice their somewhat variant rite.

A more radical sect soon formed - the Taborite sect - the Taborites, who took their name from the city of Tábor, their stronghold in southern Bohemia, rejected church doctrine and upheld the Bible as the sole authority in all matters of belief.

Prolonged negotiations ensued; but finally a Hussite embassy, led by Prokop and including John of Rokycan, the Taborite bishop Nicolas of Pelhřimov, the 'English Hussite' Peter Payne and many others, arrived at Basel on 4 January 1433.

The Hussite wagon fort would meet its demise at the Battle of Lipany, where the Utraquist faction of Hussites defeated the Taborite faction by getting the Taborites inside a wagon fort on a hill to charge at them by at first attacking, then retreating.