Battle of Grotniki Ends Hussite Wars

1439

Polish forces crushed the last Hussite Taborite radicals at Grotniki, ending the final phase of Bohemia's religious wars. Moderate Utraquists dominated Bohemia's religious compromise. Europe's first successful Protestant-style reform movement survived as an institution, a century before Luther. The Hussite legacy included the first successful challenge to papal authority and military innovations that influenced Central European warfare for generations.