Gyorgy Dozsa's Peasant Crusade

1514

A Transylvanian soldier named Gyorgy Dozsa, preaching a crusade against the Ottomans, found his peasant army turning instead against the Hungarian nobles who had starved them. The rebellion was crushed with genocidal cruelty. Dozsa was roasted alive on an iron throne, a grim warning to every serf in Central Europe.