Abstract
An entry in an expert encyclopedia is focused on the history of Bohemian nobility in the 16th century. It focused on the disputes between the nobility and royal towns after the scandal with Jan Kopidlanský z Kopidlna.
The matter caused a wave of outrage among the nobility because the citizens decapitated a member of old Bohemian nobility without a proper defense or religious consolation who according to the law of the lands was supposed to be prosecuted by the burgrave court at Prague Castle. The entry also discusses the situations during which the Bohemian Diet did not invite two higher estates and the representatives of regal towns despite discussing matters concerning them in 1512.
The regal towns reacted to this new denial of a third vote at the Diet by refusing to respect the Diet's decisions. The analysis focuses also on the Town Union founded in 1513.