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PROKOP , the name of two of the most prominent Hussite generals 1. PROKOP, surnamed " Veliky " (the See also:

great) or " See also:Holy " (the bald), was a married utraquist See also:priest who belonged to an eminent See also:family of citizens of See also:Prague. Though a priest and continuing to officiate as such, he became the most prominent See also:leader of the advanced Hussite or Taborite forces during the latter See also:part of the Hussite See also:wars. He was not indeed the immediate successor of izka as leader of the Taborites, as has been frequently stated, but he commanded the forces of See also:Tabor when they obtained their great victories over the Germans and Romanists at Usti nad Labam (See also:Aussig) in 1426 and Domazlice (Tauss) in 1431. He also acted as leader of the Taborites during their frequent incursions into See also:Hungary and See also:Germany, particularly when in 1429 a vast Bohemian See also:army invaded See also:Saxony and the territory of See also:Nuremberg. The See also:Hussites, however, made no See also:attempt permanently to conquer See also:German territory, and on the 6th of See also:February 1430 Prokop concluded at See also:Kulmbach a treaty with See also:Frederick of See also:Brandenburg, See also:burgrave of Nuremberg, by which the Hussites engaged themselves to leave Germany. When the Bohemians entered into negotiations with See also:Sigismund and the See also:Council of See also:Basel and, after prolonged discussions, resolved to send an See also:embassy to the council, Prokop the Great was the most prominent member of this embassy, which reached Basel on the 4th of See also:January 1433. When the negotiations there for a See also:time proved resultless Prokop with the other envoys returned to Bohemia, where new See also:internal troubles See also:broke out. A Taborite army led by Prokop the Great besieged Plzen, which was then in the hands of the Romanists. The discipline in the Hussite See also:camp had, however, slackened in the course of See also:pro-longed warfare, and the Taborites encamped before Plzen revolted against Prokop, who therefore returned to Prague. Probably encouraged by these dissensions among the men of Tabor, the Bohemian See also:nobility, both Romanist and utraquist, formed a See also:league for the purpose of opposing See also:democracy, which through the victories of Tabor had acquired great strength in the Bohemian towns. The struggle began at Prague.

Aided by the nobles, the citizens of the old See also:

town took See also:possession of the more democratic new town, which Prokop unsuccessfully attempted to defend. Prokop now called to his aid Prokop " the Lesser," who had succeeded him in the command of the Taborite army before Plzen. They jointly retreated eastward from Prague, and their forces, known as the army of the towns, met at See also:Lipan, between Kourim and See also:Kolin, the army of the nobles (May 30, 1434). The Taborites were decisively defeated, and Prokop the Great perished in this See also:battle. 2. PROKOP " the Lesser," or PROKUPEK (the Bohemian diminutive of the word Prokop), was one of the greatest Hussite generals. Little is known of his See also:early See also:life. He took part in all the later See also:campaigns of Prokop the Great in Germany, and succeeded him as See also:commander of the Taborite army that besieged Plzen. After the formation of the confederacy of the nobles he was recalled by Prokop the Great, with whom he shared the command of the army of the towns at the fateful battle of Lipan, in which he also perished. See See also:Count See also:Lutzow, Bohemia: A See also:Historical See also:Sketch; Palacky, See also:History of Bohemia; Toman, Husitske Valecnictvi (Hussite Warfare).

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