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...the more extreme Hussites soon became known as the Taborites ... or
Orphans (sirotci) a name they adopted after the death of their beloved
leader and general Jan Žižka.

According to Turnbull, the Orebites rather than the Taborites used the name "Orphans". Although I see very few references to the Orebites apart from in his book, and it appears they would often be lumped in together with the Taborites. Is it worth noting the distinction between the Taborites and Orebites here?

--Michael Noel Jones 20:53, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Epiletic fit

On hearing this news King Wenceslaus succumbed to an apoplectic fit, and died a few days afterwards (16 August 1419).

What? Sounds apocryphal. Also, does not match up with the biography on his page, which says he died of a heart attack while hunting. -- 71.191.36.194 17:21, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

But it was correct: Franz Palacky Geschichte von Böhmen 1845 vol. 3 part 1 page 421-422. Apoplexy on left side of body following fist fight, developing into pain in the left arm and paralysis, combined with such frequent vomiting that he could not take the Holy Sacrament. After appr. ten days he suffered from a second (spontaneous) apoplexy, followed by death within some hours. Palacky's critical notes are citing several sources, Aeneas Sylvius cap. 37 and Pelzel's Incidentia. The latter explicitly says et post meridiem, facto jam prandio, hora diei XIX, ut quidam ajebant, in morbum incidit apoplecticum, et circa horam ejusdem diei XXII mortuus est in dicto novo castro, ipsum circumstantium suorum in medio dilectorum. 82.117.156.241 (talk) 01:29, 28 March 2008 (UTC)Mensurabilis