Jan Šultys z Felsdorfu - Slaný, Czechia
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Jan Šultys of Felsdorf (1560 - 1621) was a burgher, a member of the directorate of the Czech estates at the time of the estate uprising (1618–1620) and one of 27 Czech insurgents exemplary executed after the lost battle of Bílá Hora.
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Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 08/18/2021
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The house has a board with the inscription:
V tomto dome narodil se
Jan Šultys, z Felsdorfu,
primátor kutnohorský,
jenž s ceskými pány popraven r. 1621.
He was born in this house
Jan Šultys, from Felsdorf,
Mayor of Kutná Hora,
who was executed with the Czech lords in 1621.
Jan Šultys of Felsdorf (1560 Slaný - June 21, 1621, Prague) was a burgher, a member of the directorate of Czech estates at the time of the estate uprising (1618–1620) and one of 27 Czech insurgents exemplary executed after the lost battle of Bílá Hora. He was executed as the fourteenth and fifth overall of the bourgeoisie.
"He was born around 1560 in Slaný (today's Husova trída no. 94). He graduated from the Academy in Prague and worked as a teacher in Slaný and the surrounding villages. At the turn of the years 1589-1590 he went to Kutná Hora, where he accepted the position of school administrator at the university. In 1590 he married Alžbeta Holoubková and took over a prosperous inn business. He soon became an important burgher, councilor and in 1614 mayor. In 1604 he acquired the coat of arms and predicate from Felsdorf. In the Czech uprising in 1618 he was among the 30 elected directors. He was captured after the White Mountain and executed as the fifteenth of the 27 Czech lords in the Old Town Square. His head was exhibited on a prank in Kutná Hora and later on the Kourim Gate. - In Slaný, a memorial plaque is placed on his birth house and one of the streets is named after him. In Kutná Hora, his memory is commemorated by an inscription on the house No. 174, in which he lived as mayor, in today's Šultysova Street."
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