What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 24 August 2022.

Lupáčova was built before 1875.

Martin Lupáč studied in Prague, where he got to know Jan Hus personally. In 1412, he took part in the burning of the Papal Bull.

In 1421, he became a preacher in Chrudim. He was a moderate Hussite who wanted all the arguing factions to shut up and get on with each other.

In the early 1430s, he participated twice in the Council Of Basel. In 1435, he was elected suffragan (i.e. assistant bishop) to Jan Rokycana (who was not recognised as bishop by the Pope – https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/19/prague-3-day-19-rokycanova/).

His moderate stance meant that he was a key participant in the proclamation of the Compacts of Basel in Jihlava in 1436, and in negotiations between Zikmund and the Táborites the year after.

However, Zikmund expelled him from his role in Chrudim, and he disappeared from view until he became a mediator, again, in Klatovy in 1452, this time between Rokycana and the Táborites.

After the Unity of Brethren was founded in Kunwald in 1457 (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/26/prague-3-day-83-ceskobratrska/), Lupáč remained a strong supporter of its, well, unity, until his death in 1468.

I am totally forming a band called Zikmund and the Táborites. Who’s in?