GEORGE PODIEBRAD elected king. Policy of conciliation: vigorous persecution of the Bohemian Brotherhood, a puritanical sect with outspokenly democratic leanings dating from the teaching of Peter of Chelchich (d. 1460) and, like the Taborites, rejecting all subordination to Rome. George, an avowed Hussite of the moderate school, was technically a heretic and soon found himself in conflict with the pope.
The pope denounced the agreements of Basel and deposed George (1465). Thereupon the Catholic nobility of Bohemia elected Matthias of Hungary as king. George defeated him in a series of engagements, but the issue was undecided when George died. (See Bohemia)
