Kouřim

Kouřim joined the Hussite cause in 1421, and its church of St Stephen served an Utraquist congregation for the next two centuries. The town acquired former ecclesiastical estates around it during the upheaval. When it submitted to Sigismund in 1436, those possessions helped provide a foundation for recovery. Religious life also fostered a singing brotherhood, for which a Gothic gradual was made in 1470; an Advent hymnal followed in 1581.

Participation in the revolt against Ferdinand I in 1547 brought confiscations and a royal reeve to supervise the town. A charter dated 26 September records the king's pardon, but recovery of property took longer: some estates were returned, others bought back, with further restitution in 1561. After the later Bohemian revolt, confiscations again stripped Kouřim of property. Town wealth and self-government were repeatedly reshaped by its relations with the crown.