Account of the Trial and Death of Master Jan Hus
The eyewitness account of the journey, imprisonment, hearings and burning of Jan Hus, written by a Czech who served one of the noblemen escorting him. It opens with the text of King Sigismund’s safe-conduct.
Peter of Mladoňovice went to Constance as secretary to John of Chlum, one of the Bohemian lords charged with escorting Jan Hus, and stayed with him to the end. His account copies documents, among them the safe-conduct, and reports the public hearings of June 1415 and the last day, 6 July, at close quarters.
He writes as an admirer, to honour the memory of the man he calls the illustrious master, and he says that he set down what he saw and heard. The council’s own record of the same day is the sentence in its fifteenth session. Read together they give the two sides of the Council of Constance and the Burning of Jan Hus.
Cited in
- 1414 to 1418, firm date