The Bohemian Crown on the crossroad. The tendency to disintegration in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the second half of the 15th century
Abstract
The study treats the progressive enfeeblement of the integrity of the Bohemian Crown as well as the strengthening of the Estates in the particular "lands adjoining the Czech Crown?. The first stage of this process started in the time of the Hussite wars (the adjoining lands did not accept the Hussite doctrine and remained loyal to the king Sigismund of Luxembourg).
The Bohemian Crown was reunified by the king George of Poděbrady, though there was a new disjunction in the last years of his reign. Mathias, king of Hungary, dominated the adjoining land as the elected king of Bohemia, while Vladislaus II Jagello ruled the Bohemia.
The crisis was overcome after 1490, but the sectionalism of the particular lands did not allow the reunification of the Estates and no estate institution concerning the entire Crown was created. The only representatives of the Crown remained the king of Bohemia and his administration.