Prokop The Bald

Prokop The Bald

▪ Bohemian priest
also called  Prokop , or  Procopius, The Great , Czech  Prokop Holý , or  Veliký 
born c. 1380
died May 30, 1434, Lipany, Hung.

      Bohemian warrior-priest who was the foremost leader of the Hussite Reformation forces in the later period of the Hussite wars.

      Initially Prokop was a conservative (Utraquist) priest, but then he joined the heretical religious movement that had sprung from the teachings of the martyred Bohemian Reformer Jan Hus (d. 1415). Prokop effectively defended Hussite Bohemia against Romanist crusaders (1426, 1427, 1431) and himself invaded Silesia, Saxony, Thuringia, and Hungary. In 1433 he attended the Council of Basel, which unsuccessfully attempted to reconcile the Bohemian heretics with Rome. The following year he embraced the more antifeudal, peasant-worker (Taborite) branch of the Hussite movement. When in 1434 a united Utraquist and Romanist force from the old part of Prague seized control of the more radical “new town,” he sought, with the aid of the Taborite commander Prokop the Lesser, to regain it but was killed at the ensuing Battle of Lipany.

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