Podiebrad, George, king of Bohemia; rose, though a Hussite, and in spite of the Pope, from the ranks of the nobles to that elevation; forced his enemies to come to terms with him, and held his ground against them till the day of his death (1420‒1471).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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