What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 7 September 2022.

Chvalova was built in 1910.

Known as Závišova until 1947, after Záviš of Falkenstein (1250-ish to 1290), a noble from the Vitkovci clan and foe of Otokar II.

Chval z Machovic (first mentioned in 1419, last mentioned in 1433) was one of the first governors of Tábor alongside Jan Žižka and Jan Roháč (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/25/prague-3-day-81-rohacova/).

He and Žižka unsuccessfully besieged Stříbro in 1421, and he became regional governor of a set of towns in South-Western Bohemia (Písek, Klatovy, Sušice, Domažlice and Prachatice) in 1426.

This is about as far from being a revelation about myself as is humanly possible, but I significantly prefer telling mildly gut-wrenching stories about composers to telling partial stories about 15th-century fighters.