Kaplíř of Sulevice () was a noble family in the

Kingdom of Bohemia The Kingdom of Bohemia (), sometimes referenced in English literature as the Czech Kingdom, was a History of the Czech lands in the High Middle Ages, medieval and History of the Czech lands, early modern monarchy in Central Europe. It was the pr ...

, first documented in the 14th century. The family was named after the village of Sulevice in northern

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(today known as Sulejovice, part of the

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) and is recorded in land registers and royal charters from the reign of Charles IV. Members of the family held minor feudal offices and served as

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s under higher-ranking nobles within the

Bohemian aristocracy Czech nobility consists of the nobility, noble families from historical Czech lands, especially in their narrow sense, i.e. nobility of Bohemia proper, Moravia and Austrian Silesia – whether these families originated from those countries or move ...

. Jan Kaplíř of Sulevice, active in the 15th century, served under King George of Poděbrady during the

Hussite Wars The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, a ...

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