Joachim Andreas von Schlick
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Joachim Andreas von Schlick, Count of Passaun and Weißkirchen was a Bohemian nobleman of the Schlick family in the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Holy Roman Empire. He was one of the leaders of the Protes
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Defenestrations of Prague
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The Defenestrations of Prague were three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which people were defenestrated. Though already existing in Middle French, the word defenestrate is believed to have fir
Joachim Andreas von Schlick
…King" Frederick V, Elector Palatine, to whose election he had contributed, he received the Office of High Court judge. He participated in the Second Prague Defenestration and was probably one of the people who threw the Habsburg officials from the window of Prague Castle. Before his execution, he managed to write a letter…
1618 defenestration as illustrated on a contemporaneous leaflet
The Novoměstská radnice (lit. 'New Town Hall'), site of the 1419 defenestrations
Illustrated by Czech history painter Adolf Liebscher c. 1900
1872 illustration depicting the 1483 defenestrations, from Česko-Moravská Kronika