Podíl české katolické šlechty při utváření náboženských poměrů v Čechách ve dvacátých letech 17. století
The role of the Czech Catholic nobility in shaping religious conditions in Bohemia in the 1620s

Summary/Abstract: This study analyses the role of the Czech nobility in the first years of the post-WhiteMountain counter-reformation in the Kingdom of Bohemia. It follows this from the endof 1620, when, soon after the Battle of White Mountain, the first proposals to adjust thesituation in the rebel territory began to appear. The upper limit is the middle of 1627, notonly for political reasons but with special reference to the issuing of a patent by FerdinandII on 31 July 1627 in which he first proclaimed an attempt to catholicize the Czechnobility and at the same time reiterated that he did not intend to tolerate anyone in thecountry who would not be willing to align himself with his landlord in faith. The firstpart of the article deals with the ideas of certain Bohemian Catholic noblemen about thefuture religious development of the kingdom, which they embodied in proposals whichcame into being on the initiative of Ferdinand II or on their own initiative. Other passagesfocus on the efforts of the landowner and governor of Bohemia Charles of Liechtensteinto influence, through normative measures, the religious situation of the aristocratic estatesbefore July 1627. In conclusion, attention is paid to the efforts of certain BohemianCatholic lords who advocated a fight against non-Catholic beliefs on their own estates,which they justified by the requirement for their subjects to align themselves in faith withtheir landlords.

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