Hynek Boček of Poděbrady (also known as: ''Hynek of Poděbrady'' or ''Hynek Boček of Kunštát and Poděbrady''; or ; died 16 October 1426 in

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) was a Bohemian-Moravian nobleman and follower of the

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Life

Hynek was a member of the

Poděbrady family The Bohemian Poděbrady family () was a noble family in Bohemia, arising from the Lords of Kunštát. After Boček I of Poděbrady, Boček of Kunštát (d. 1373) had acquired the Lordship of Poděbrady by marriage, he called himself "Boček of ...

. His parents were Boček II of Poděbrady and Anna Elisabeth of Lipá (), a daughter of Henry of Lipá (). He often used his middle name ''Boček'' in addition to Hynek, as this name had a rich tradition with his ancestors. Hynek was first documented in 1417 in connection with the legacy of his late father, who died that year. Hynek was the youngest among his brothers and inherited the

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headquarters with the associated Lordship. Jan, the eldest brother died between 1407 and 1409, during the lifetime of their father. The third-born son Boček III inherited together with the fourth-born Victor the Moravian estates, while Victor additionally received the Bohemian estates

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, Hummel and

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. During the Hussite Wars, Hynek initially fought with the eastern Bohemian

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; he was their captain. During the collision with the moderate Hussites in Prague, he was taken prisoner by them. However, a year later, he entered in their service. In 1423 he participated with his brother Victor in a campaign in Moravia. In 1425 he arrested Jan Puška of Kunštát, the marshal of

at Mydlovar Castle and kept him prisoner at his own Poděbrady Castle. The reason for the arrest was probably a long-standing land dispute between the Poděbrady and the

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branches of the Kunštát family. After Jan Puška died in his prison, Hynek appropriate his Mydlovar Castle and the associated Lordship of Kostomlaty, and added it to his Poděbrady possessions. In 1426, he participated in the

Battle of Aussig The Battle of Aussig () was fought on 16 June 1426, between Roman Catholic crusaders and the Hussites during the Fourth Crusade of the Hussite Wars. It was fought near Aussig ( Ústí nad Labem) in northern Bohemia Bohemia ( ; ; ) is the ...

. When the

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besieged Poděbrady, he fled to Nymburk, where he died on 16 October 1426 of a gunshot wound. He was not married and left no descendants.

References

* Ondřej Felcman, Radek Fukala ''et al.'': ''Poděbradové. Rod českomoravských pánů, kladských hrabat a sleszkých knížat'', Nakladatelství Lidové Noviny 2008, .

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* * Hussite people 1426 deaths Podiebrad family Year of birth unknown 15th-century nobility from Bohemia {{Germany-noble-stub