György Dózsa was a Székely man-at-arms from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary who led a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility during the reign of King Vladislaus II of Hungary. The rebellion was suppressed, and Dózsa captured, tortured, and executed by being seated on a throne, crowned with red-hot iron, devoured alive by his followers under duress, then quartered.
Contemporary woodcut of Dózsa's execution.
Seal of the Dózsa family from 1677
A posthumous portrait of György Dózsa from 1913, Viktor Madarász
Dózsa on the Wall from the "Dózsa woodcut series" by Gyula Derkovits, 1928
Vladislaus II, also known as Vladislav, Władysław or Wladislas, was King of Bohemia from 1471 to 1516 and King of Hungary and of Croatia from 1490 to 1516. As the eldest son of Casimir IV Jagiellon, he was expected to inherit Poland and Lithuania. George of Poděbrady, the Hussite ruler of Bohemia, offered to make Vladislaus his heir in 1468. George needed Casimir's support against the rebellious Catholic noblemen and their ally King of Hungary Matthias Corvinus. The Diet of Bohemia elected Vladislaus king after George's death, but he could rule only Bohemia proper because Matthias, whom the Catholic nobles had elected king, occupied Moravia, Silesia and both Lusatias. Vladislaus tried to reconquer the four provinces with his father's assistance but was repelled by Matthias.
Fresco from walls of the St. Wenceslas Chapel in St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague (1508)
Rey de Bohemia. An ideal portrait of Vladislaus Jagiellon, depicted as the King of Bohemia and "Arch-Cupbearer of the Empire" on fol. 33r of Portuguese armorial Livro do Armeiro-Mor (1509)
Kutná Hora was the medieval center of silver mining and the second richest town of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
Vladislav Hall within the Prague Castle
