1. The Battle of White Mountain FaME UTB Zlín Matúš Gaborčík Tomáš Míča Jaromír Špico

2.  Faculty of Management and Economics 2 Prelude  Political and religious tensions in the kingdom of Bohemia  The so-called “Majestat” (1609) neglected by the monarch’s absolute-style rule  First Defenestration of Prague (1618)  Nobility’s Election of a thirty member directorate  Ferdinand II. deposed by the Estates (1619) and Frederick of the Palatine (The Winter King) appointed as the new king

3.  Faculty of Management and Economics 3 Defenestration  Two loyal Catholics thrown from the 2 nd floor window of a castle  17 meters fall survival attributed to holy intervention  Abortive demonstration of the nobles that the protest was not a direct aggression against the ruler  Emperor Mathias: The stage is set !

4.  Faculty of Management and Economics 4 The Battle  Location: “ Bílá hora “ - a small quiet hillside just outside Prague  Date: November 8, 1620  Combatant 1: Bohemian Estate Armies led by: Prince Christian I. of Anhalt, Jindrich Mathias Thurn forces: 15,000 men from Bohemia and mercenaries  Combatant 2: united Imperial and Catholic League forces led by: Charles Bonaventura Buquoy, Maximilian of Bavaria forces: 27,000 troops from the Holy Roman Empire, the Catholic Ligue and Polland

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6. 6 Karel Bonaventura Buqouy Maximilian of Bavaria

7.  Faculty of Management and Economics 7 The Aftermath  Two thousand lay dead or dying, others routed and captured  Freedom of religion came to an end, 27 noblemen executed  Protestants fleeing the country with king Frederick himself  Recatholicising  The End of the Thirty Years’ War in Bohemia

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