Orebites

The Orebites (Czech: Orebité), also called Lesser Taborites and later known as Sirotci ("Orphans"; German: Waisen), officially Orphans' Union (Czech: Sirotčí svaz), were followers of a radical wing of the Hussites in Bohemia.^[1] The founders took part in the procession on Mount Oreb, near Třebechovice pod Orebem and Hradec. Founded in 1423 originally under the name Lesser Tábor, it consisted mostly of poorer burghers and some members of the Czech nobility who joined with the commander Jan Žižka.

The ideological founder of the Orebites was the priest Ambrož Hradecký. Leaders included Hynek Krušina of Lichtenburg and Diviš Bořek of Miletínek, the captain of the Hussites in Eastern and Central Bohemia. The Orebites were instrumental in the burning of the Benedictine monastery in Mnichovo Hradiště in the early summer of 1420, and in autumn, they supported the rest of the Hussites at the Battle of Vyšehrad.

After Žižka's death (1424) left them "orphaned", these combatants adopted their new name. From 1424 to 1428, they were led by the priest Ambrož of Hradec and then by another priest, Prokop the Lesser. Hejtman Jan Čapek of Sány was elected as their military commander (1431–1434). After 1457, most supporters belonged to the Bohemian Brethren church and played an important role in its development.

Towns joined with the Union

All towns are in Bohemia, unless otherwise noted.

Vysoké Mýto
Čáslav
Kouřim
Kolín
Kutná Hora (in condominium with the Taborites)
Trutnov
Tachov (from 1427)
New Town, Prague (from 1429)
Český Brod
Mladá Boleslav
Boseň
Hradec Králové
Dvůr Králové
Bělá pod Bezdězem
Bezděz
Česká Lípa
Litomyšl
Náchod
Český Dub
Topoľčany in Slovakia
Skalica in Slovakia

Aristocratic members

Jan Roháč of Dubá
Jan Kolúch of Vesec
Čáslav Kaplíř of Sulevice
Vilém Jeník of Mečkov
Jan Hertvík of Rušinov
Wilhelm Kostka of Postupice
Jan Žampach of Potštejn
Mikuláš the Elder Trčka of Lípa
Jiří of Dubá
Jan Baštín of Porostlá
Matěj Salava of Lípa
Jan Krušina of Lichtenburk
Aleš Vřešťovský of Rýzmburk
Mikuláš of Keuschberk
Anežka of Trocnov

References

^ Seltzer, Joel Daniel (2005). Framing faith, forging a nation: Czech vernacular historiography and the Bohemian Reformation, 1430–1530 (Ph.D. thesis). Yale University. pp. 47, 77. ISBN 978-0-542-04982-8. ProQuest 305387903.

Fudge, T.A. (2018). The Magnificent Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-88633-8. Retrieved 24 May 2021.

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[1] Seltzer, Joel Daniel (2005). Framing faith, forging a nation: Czech vernacular historiography and the Bohemian Reformation, 1430–1530 (Ph.D. thesis). Yale University. pp. 47, 77. ISBN 978-0-542-04982-8. ProQuest 305387903.

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