Publication details
Kommunikation in schweren Zeiten : Die Ordenswürdenträger und ihre Partnern in der späten Hussitenzeit (Böhmen, Mähren)
| Title in English | Communication in difficult times : Order dignitaries and their partners in the late Hussite period (Bohemia, Moravia) |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Ordines militares. Colloquia Torunensia Historica |
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| Citation | |
| web | https://apcz.umk.pl/OM/article/view/OM.2020.009/27641 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/OM.2020.009 |
| Keywords | history; the Middle Ages; Teutonic Order; Hospitallers; Bailiwick of Bohemia and Moravia; communication; extinction of the medieval order |
| Description | The paper deals in the first, larger part with the communication of the representatives of the Bohemian-Moravian Bailiwick of the Order of the Teutonic Knights in the second half of the 15th and the first half of the 16th century. In 1411, the Order lost most of its landed property and survived only with some significant parishes, mainly in Plzeň/Pilsen, Slavkov (Austerlitz, Hostěradice/Hosterlitz, Opava/Troppau and Deblín. In the mentioned period, it lost its parishes in Jindřichův Hradec/Neuhaus and Osová Bítýška. The definitive disappearance of the “residual” order structure was brought about by the Reformation. The last, relatively active land commander was Pilsen parish priest Matthew of Švihov. In the second part, the author follows the contacts of the Knights Hospitaller’s prior Wenceslaus of Michalovice/Michelsberg, especially his correspondence with the South Bohemian magnate Oldřich (Ulrich) II of Rožmberk (Rosenberg). In addition to political affairs, they corresponded on chivalric pastimes such as tournaments and hunting. |