Dalibor from Kozojedy

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Prague Castle, below in the middle the Daliborka prison tower

Dalibor von Kozojedy († probably on March 13, 1498 in Prague ) was a Bohemian knight .

Life

Dalibor von Kozojedy came from an old knight family who had their ancestral seat in Kozojedy . His father Aleš von Kozojedy had been the lord of Mnetěš from 1483 . In the period after the Hussite Wars , the increasing burden of labor and the worsening situation of the rural population caused new unrest in Bohemia. One of these early local peasant uprisings occurred in 1496 in the northeast Bohemian village of Ploskovice , which belonged to the reign of Adam Ploskovský von Drahonice.

His subordinates refused to perform new labor, conquered the court and the festivals and forced the landlord to release them from his power. They then voluntarily entered the service of Dalibor von Kozojedy. After the landlord was able to get hold of the release paper a little later, he sued the knight in Prague. The court found Dalibor guilty of having illegally appropriated the foreign goods. He was arrested on the orders of King Vladislav II and imprisoned in the prison tower of Prague Castle . With the judgment of March 13, 1498, the court confiscated his property, he lost his honor and was finally executed. The judgment entered the Vladislav Regional Code (Article 415) as a precedent in 1500 .

Dalibor was judged very differently in the following years : The chronicler Václav Hájek z Libočan , who first recorded the story in 1541, merely stated that the knight had incited the peasants to their indignation. Since his father had accused him of fraud a few years earlier, František Ladislav Rieger ruled in 1862 that Dalibor had acted out of greed. The assessment that he was a robber baron, traitor and deceiver can still be found in some of the publications to this day. In contrast, there is Dalibor's stylization as a just supporter of the enslaved peasants against their cruel master, which Alois Jirásek most prominently spread in his Old Bohemian Legends and Bedřich Smetana in his opera Dalibor . This version also includes the story that Dalibor learned to play the violin so heartily in prison that people crowd around the tower every day to listen to him.

The famous prison tower on Golden Lane in Prague Castle is called Daliborka , as the convicted knight is said to have been its first inmate.

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Individual evidence

  1. Dalibor von Kozojedy was executed on the basis of the judgment of March 13, 1498; According to some sources, the execution took place "after" or "later" (Jiří Bílek: Jak to bylo s Daliborem. In: Naše rodina, 2009, part IV, online at: www.nase-rodina.cz / ... ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ), According to other sources on the same day ( tragedy Dalibora z Kozojed , edited from: Archiv český Vol. VIII, p. 494, Vol. IX, p. 526, 527ff., Kronyka česká p. 459, online at: www.mnetes.cz/ ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nase-rodina.cz
  2. On the judgment and its significance in legal history, see the article Daliborův nález in the Czech Wikipedia.