Orebites

Orebiten were followers of the Hussites in Bohemia. The founders took part in the procession on the Mount Oreb at Třebechovice. Later, the most aristocratic supporters of the East Bohemian Brethren belonged to. The ideological founder was the priest Ambroz Hradecký to the leaders belonged Hynek Kruschina of Lichtenburg and Divis Bořek z Miletínka, captain of the Hussites in Eastern and Central Bohemia. The Orebiten were instrumental in the pillage of the Benedictine monastery in Miinchengratz in early summer 1420 and supported in the autumn of 1420 the remaining Hussites at the Battle of Vyšehrad. In 1423 they united with the orphans by Jan Zizka.

  • Hussite movement
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