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Jobst of Moravia (57 words) |
 | Jobst (or Jost) of Moravia was born in 1351 as son of John Henry of Bohemia, margrave of Moravia, the brother of emperor Charles IV. |
| When emperor Ruprecht III Wittelsbach died in 1410, both Jobst and Sigismund were candidates. |
| Jobst died in 1411 and Sigismund came to reign as king, then emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. |
| Moravia (2663 words) |
| On the death of the childless Jobst, Moravia, as a vacant fief, reverted to the Bohemian Crown, and its administration was entrusted to certain district governors by Wenceslaus IV. |
| From 1642 Moravia was the theatre of the devastating wars between the imperial forces and the Swedes, who maintained a foothold in the land until the Peace of 1648 (in Olmütz 1650). |
| In 1866 Moravia was the scene of the latest war between Austria and Prussia, which was decided at the Battle of Königgrätz, and a Moravian town, Nikolsburg, witnessed the preliminary negotiations which resulted in the Peace of Prague. |
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