Jan Hus was born around 1370 and in 1400 he was ordained as a priest, but beside being a priest, he also hold lectures at the University of Prague. Influenced by the writings of John Wycliffe, he soon after began to attack the Church by denouncing the moral failings of clergy, bishops and even the papacy. In a time which was anyway quite difficult for the Church Hus' ideas found many supporters in Bohemia and he came in conflict with the different Popes during the Western Schism. During the Council of Constance in 1415 he was burned at the stake for heresy. Jan Hus is considered to have been the first church reformer and his teachings had a strong influence on the states of Western Europe and on Martin Luther.
After his death the followers of his religious teachings, the Hussites, rebelled against their Roman Catholic rulers and defeated five consecutive papal crusades during the Hussite Wars between 1419 and 1434. The fighting just ended in 1436 with a compromise between the Hussites and the Catholics, which allowed Bohemia to practice its own version of Christianity.
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