ABSTRACT
DURING the Council of Constance, the affairs of the kingdom of Bohemia forced themselves on the attention of all Europe. Bohemia, with its de pendency the margraviate of Moravia, held an anomalous position. Though a kingdom, it was ruled by a vassal of the King of the Germans. The King of Bohemia was one of the seven Electors, yet he had for long enjoyed a measure of independence which no other German prince possessed. While the Bohemian throne was elective, the family of the Pfemyslids had held it until its extinction in 1305, and thereafter it had descended from father to son in the House of Luxemburg. At the same time, owing to the growthalbeit tardy-of feudalism, the actual authority of the Bohemian king was greatly restricted.
