Tábor (Bohemia)
Hilltop stronghold in southern Bohemia, seized and fortified in 1420 by the Hussite brethren known as Taborites, who named it Mount Tabor.
Lawrence of Březová tells that in February 1420 a party of “Taborite brethren” took the town of Ústí by surprise, and a few days later the nearby castle of Hradiště, where the walls of a former town still stood. After a time they burned Ústí and moved with their wives and children to the hill, which they fortified and built over with houses and which they call Mount Tabor (Lawrence of Březová, Chronicle, year 1420 (Höfler, p. 351)). There they chose four captains, among them Jan Žižka (Lawrence of Březová, Chronicle, year 1420 (Höfler, p. 356)). It is not to be confused with Mount Tabor in Galilee. See the Hussites and the Compacts of Basel.
What happened here
- 1419 to 1436, firm dateThe Hussites and the Compacts of Basel
After the burning of Jan Hus, Praguers and Taborites defend the lay chalice in arms. A crusade proclaimed by Martin V fails before Prague in 1420, the city states its demands in Four Articles, and in 1436 legates of the Council of Basel concede the chalice at Jihlava.