George of Poděbrady
George of Poděbrady (1420–1471) led the moderate Utraquist party. He seized Prague in 1448, and in 1451 Frederick III made him administrator of Bohemia; in 1458 the estates unanimously elected him king.
Ruling tolerantly under the Compacta of Prague, he was called the King of two peoples. When Pope Pius II declared the Compacta void in 1462, George rejected it, and in 1464 he proposed common European institutions in his peace treaty against the Turks.
Excommunicated by Pope Paul II in 1466, he fought Matthias Corvinus, who occupied much of Moravia and was elected rival king in 1469. George died in Prague in 1471.