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 540 THE HUSSITES. competitor. Thus strengthened they offered effective resistance to Albert, who up to his sadden death, October 27, 1439, was un- able to occupy the whole of his kingdom. Four months later, Ladislas, his posthumous son, was born, and a long minority, with its accompanying turbulence, enabled the Cahxtins again to get the upper hand, over both the Taborites and the Catholics. In 1441 a council held at Kuttenberg organized the national Church on a CaMxtin basis. Several conferences were held with the Ta- borites, and the points at issue were referred to the national diet held in January, 1444. Its emphatic decision in favor of the Cahx- tin doctrine broke up the Taborite organization. The cities still held by them surrendered one by one, and the members were scat- tered, for the most part joining the Calixtins. As a separate sect they may be said to have disappeared when, in 1452, George Podiebrad captured Mount Tabor and dispersed their remains.* After the death of Albert what central authority there was in Bohemia was lodged in the hands of two governors, Ptacek rep- resenting the Cahxtins, and Mainhard of Kosenberg, the victor of Lipan, the Cathohcs. In October, 1443, we hear of the Em- peror Frederic III. as about starting for Bohemia where he ex- pected to receive the regency, but his hopes were frustrated. Ptacek died in 1445, when the choice for his succession feU upon George Podiebrad, a powerful baron, who, though only twenty- four, had acquired a high reputation for military abihty and sa- gacity. He was largely under the influence of Kokyzana, to whom doubtless his election was due. After a long interval, Eome again appeared upon the scene. :Nicholas Y., who ascended the papal throne in 1447, sent, in 1448, John, Cardinal of Sant' Angelo, to^ Prague as legate. The Bohemians earnestly urged him to ratify the Compactata and confirm Eokyzana as archbishop. He prom-j ised an answer, but finding the situation embarrassing, he secretly] left Prague with Mainhard of Eosenberg. Popular indignationj 1883, p. 465).— Jo. de Turonis Regest. (Mod. Cone. Gen. Ssee. XV. T. I. pp. 855^j 857).— Camerarii Hist. Frat. Ortbod. pp. 57-8.— Naucleri Chron. ann. 1436, 1438.^ — Concil. Basiliens. Sess. XXX. (Harduin. VIII. 1244). — Petitiones Bohemorumj (Fascic. Rcr. Expetend. et Fugiend. I. 319, Ed. 1690).— Martene Ampl. Coll. VIII.] 942-3.— .^n. Sylvii Epist. 101 (Ed. 1571, p. 591).— Chron. Cornel. Zantliiet (Mar-j tene Ampl. Coll. V. 445).— De Schweinitz, Hist, of Unitas Fratrum, pp. 91-2, 94.
 * Mn. Sylvii Epist. Ixxi. (0pp. inedd. ap. Atti della Accademia dei LinceiJ