25 – 26 March 1420
Sunset at Sudoměř
The fighting lasts several hours, until the sun sets and fog comes down over the ponds. Laurence of Březová writes that the royalists draw off at about sunset and that Mikeš Divůček takes 30 Hussites, captured in a sally, in chains to Kutná Hora. The Old Czech Annals tell that the sun went down suddenly behind a hill, and that in the dark the royalists struck at one another.
The memorial to Jan Žižka on the battlefield of Sudoměř, by Emanuel Kodet, 1925Wikimedia Commons, Irigi, Public domain (Žižka memorial, Sudoměř.jpg)
The Hussites spend the night on the field, which by the custom of the time makes them the victors, and Žižka most likely takes command after Břeněk’s death. The next day they bury their dead, leave the wounded in nearby villages and march to Újezd castle, where they stay two days. A party from Tábor meets them there and brings them to Hradiště.
Sources
- Laurence of Březová, Hussite Chronicle, Czech edition Husitská kronika (1979), p. 49.
- Old Czech Annals, in Ze starých letopisů českých (1980), p. 63.
- František Šmahel, Jan Žižka z Trocnova (1969), p. 76.
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