Moravian Hussites. Radical Hussite faction — Allies: Lithuania [ g ] Supported by: Poland. Crusaders and Catholic loyalists: Hungary - Croatia [ h ]. Holy Roman Empire also German Kingdom [ j ]. Allies of the Polish—Hussite invasion of Prussia :. Later Crusades — Northern — Against Christians — The Hussite Wars , also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution , were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund , the Papacy , and European monarchs loyal to the Catholic Church , as well as various Hussite factions.
At a late stage of the conflict, the Utraquists changed sides in to fight alongside Roman Catholics and opposed the Taborites and other Hussite factions. These wars lasted from to approximately The unrest began after pre-Protestant Christian reformer Jan Hus was executed by the Catholic Church in for heresy.
In Prague and various other parts of Bohemia, the Catholic Germans living there were forced out. Wenceslaus's brother, Sigismund , who had inherited the throne, was outraged by the spread of Hussitism. They made early advances, forcing the Hussites back and taking Prague. However, the Hussites reorganized and took back nearly all the land they had lost, resulting in the failure of the crusade.
Three more crusades were attempted by the papacy , but none achieved their objectives. The Lithuanians and Poles did not wish to attack the Czechs, Germany was having internal conflicts and could not muster up a sufficient force to battle the Hussites, and the king of Denmark left the Czech border to go back to his home.
As the conflicts went on, the Hussites also made raids into German territory. The wars eventually ended in when the moderate Utraquist faction of the Hussites defeated the radical Taborite faction. The Hussites agreed to submit to the authority of the king of Bohemia and the Roman Catholic Church and were allowed to practice their somewhat variant rite.
