Editing Defenestrations of Prague (section)

===Aftermath===
Immediately after the defenestration, the Protestant estates and Catholic Habsburgs started gathering allies for war.<ref name=Gutmann>{{cite journal |last=Gutmann |first=Myron P. |title=The Origins of the Thirty Years War |journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary History |volume=18 |number=4  |year=1988 |pages=764–765 |doi=10.2307/204823|jstor=204823 }}</ref> After the death of Matthias in 1619, Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman Emperor. At the same time, the Bohemian estates deposed him as King of Bohemia and replaced him with [[Frederick V, Elector Palatine]], a leading [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] and son-in-law of the Protestant [[James VI and I]], King of Scotland, England and Ireland.

Because they had deposed a properly chosen king, who also happened to be emperor, the Protestants could not gather the international support they needed for war.<ref name=Gutmann/> Just two years after the defenestration, Ferdinand and the Catholics regained power in the [[Battle of White Mountain]] on November 8, 1620. This became known as the first battle in the Thirty Years' War.<ref name=Gould>{{cite journal |last=Gould |first=Stephen Jay |author-link=Stephen Jay Gould |title=This View of Life: The Diet of Worms and the Defenestrations of Prague |journal=[[Natural History (magazine)|Natural History]] |year=1996 |number=9 |access-date=2014-01-26 |url=http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/BioNB427/READINGS/Gould1996.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328010647/http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/bionb427/readings/gould1996.pdf |archive-date=28 March 2014 }}</ref>

There was plundering and pillaging in Prague for weeks following the battle. Several months later, twenty-seven nobles and citizens were tortured and [[Old Town Square execution|executed]] in the [[Old Town Square]]. Twelve heads were impaled on iron hooks and hung from the [[Old Town Bridge Tower]] as a warning. This contributed to the resentment that gave rise to the Thirty Years' War.<ref name=Gould/>