!!!Georg von Podiebrad und Kunstat

b. Poděbrady (Czech Republic), April 6, 1420, 
d. Prague (Czech Republic), March 22, 1471, leader of the Calixtine 
Moravians. Bohemian Regent of the Empire of  Ladislaus Postumus in 
1452. Elected King of Bohemia on March 2, 1458 after L.P.'s death 
(Nov. 23, 1457), recognised by Emperor Friedrich III and, in return, 
supported him during the siege of the castle of Vienna in 1462.

!Literature
F. G. Heymann, George of Bohemia, King of Heretics, 1965.



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