History of the Crusades

the Crusades episode 316. Episode 316, the Baltic, the Baltic Crusades, the Lithuanian conflict part 21, war and peace.

Hello again.

Last week we covered events which had occurred in the Baltic region

while the Council of Constance was holding everyone's attention.

In a nutshell, we saw that just about every ruler was troubled by succession issues. Problems caused by a lack of an air were

highlighted when Emperor Sigismund attempted to have himself crowned as the King of Bohemia following Wensselas's death in the year 1419,

only to be run out of town due to his lack of popularity.

We also saw Shrit Raghyla break free from his jail cell in Ukraine, and he is now roaming around

somewhere in Europe.

Now in the early 1420s the main political issue in the Baltic region was the continuing unrest in Prague.

Basically, supporters of the executor Jan Hus were fermenting a popular rebellion across the city with anti-church, anti-German and above all

anti-Emperor Sigismund themes. Just about everything Sigismund did to try to calm the rebels and get them to settle down ended

up having the opposite effect. In fact the Bohemian tradition of defenestration or the act of

dealing with your opponents by hurling them out of a window began in the year 1419 when a bunch of

husight supporters through a judge and a bunch of town councillors out of a window in a tower in the Prague City Hall.

This act of defenestration is considered to be the official start of the Hussite Wars and at the moment Emperor Sigismund is trying desperately

to put a lid on the Hussite rebellion by crushing them militarily, but the involvement of the Imperial armies is just causing more and more people

inside the Kingdom of Bohemia to come out in support of the Hussites.

While Emperor Sigismund is spending all his time and focus on matters bohemian,

and while he is leading the Imperial Forces to a number of embarrassing

defeats at the hands of the rebels, his popularity has plunged to new levels. not only in Bohemia, but across the kingdom of Germany and even in Hungary.

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