Editing Jan Hus (section)

===Hussite Wars===
{{Main|Hussite Wars}}
[[File:Jensky kodex Zizka.jpg|thumb|[[Jan Žižka]] leading troops of Hussites]]
[[File:Vrhání husitů do šachet.gif|thumb|Some two thousand of Hus's followers thrown into the [[Kutná Hora]] mines by pro-Catholic townsmen]]
Responding with horror to the execution of Hus, the people of Bohemia moved even more rapidly away from Papal teachings. Rome then pronounced a [[crusade]] against them (1 March 1420): [[Pope Martin V]] issued a [[Papal bull]] authorizing the execution of all supporters of Hus and Wycliffe. King Wenceslaus IV died in August 1419, and his brother, [[Sigismund of Hungary]], was unable to establish a real government in Bohemia due to the Hussite revolt.{{sfn|Lützow|1914|pp=177–79}}

The Hussite community included most of the Czech population of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Under the leadership of [[Jan Žižka]] (c. 1360–1424) and later of [[Prokop the Great]] (c. 1380–1434)—both excellent commanders—the Hussites defeated the crusade and the other three crusades that followed (1419–1434). Fighting ended after a compromise between the [[Utraquism|Utraquist]] Hussites and the Catholic [[Council of Basel]] in 1436. It resulted in the [[Basel Compacts]], in which the Catholic Church officially allowed Bohemia to practice its own version of Christianity (Hussitism). A century later as much as ninety percent of the inhabitants of the [[Czech Crown lands]] still followed Hussite teachings.