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  2. Jan Hus - Wikipedia

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    German 16th Century. John Huss Centenary Medal [reverse] . Silver, 4.33 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Samuel H. Kress Collection. Jan Hus (/ h ʊ s /; Czech: [ˈjan ˈɦus] ⓘ; c. 1370 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Hus or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hus or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church ...

  3. Hussite Wars - Wikipedia

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    The unrest began after pre-Protestant Christian reformer Jan Hus was executed by the Catholic Church in 1415 for heresy. [1] [2] Because Sigismund had plans to be crowned the Holy Roman Emperor (requiring papal coronation), he suppressed the religion of the Hussites, yet it continued to spread. [3]

  4. Christianity in the 14th century - Wikipedia

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    The first of a series of disruptive and new perspectives came from John Wycliffe at Oxford University, then from Jan Hus at the University of Prague. The Catholic Church officially concluded this debate at the Council of Constance (1414–1417). The conclave condemned Jan Hus, who was executed by burning in spite of a promise of safe-conduct.

  5. Defenestrations of Prague - Wikipedia

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    The First Defenestration of Prague involved the killing of several members of the city council by a crowd of Czech Hussites on 30 July 1419. [1]Jan Želivský, a Hussite priest at the church of the Virgin Mary of the Snows, led his congregation on a procession through the streets of Prague to the New Town Hall on Charles Square.

  6. Council of Constance - Wikipedia

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    The reforms were largely directed against John Wycliffe, mentioned in the opening session and condemned in the eighth on 4 May 1415, and Jan Hus, along with their followers. Hus, summoned to Constance under a letter of safe conduct, was found guilty of heresy by the council and turned over to the secular court. "This holy synod of Constance ...

  7. Jerome of Prague - Wikipedia

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    His radical ideas eventually brought about his death by execution as a heretic to the church, but made him a martyr for the Protestant Reformation and followers of Jan Hus (known as Hussites). [citation needed] He was well-educated and spent most of his life traveling, trying to incite religious reform in various cities.

  8. Death by burning - Wikipedia

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    Jan Hus was burned at the stake after being accused at the Roman Catholic Council of Constance (1414–18) of heresy. The council also decreed that the remains of John Wycliffe, dead for 30 years, should be exhumed and burned. This posthumous execution was carried out in 1428.

  9. Hussites - Wikipedia

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    Execution of Jan Hus (1415) that sparked outrage in the Kingdom of Bohemia. The Council of Constance lured Jan Hus in with a letter of indemnity, then tried him for heresy and put him to death at the stake on 6 July 1415. [2] The arrest of Hus in 1414 caused considerable resentment in Czech lands.