STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1805, sig. 109-5/33 (damaged)

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34 - 7 - III. The total summarizing result of the Schlaht on the White Mountain and the newly established regional order regime results in the destruction of the low, predominantly Czech-Hustic-minded nobility and the transformation and realignment of the remaining remnants of the rich and high nobility. The denominational moment overlapped the national. Catholic Czechs are closer to the H bsburg Gynasty 2 Protestant Germans. The great confiscations and emigration of the Protestant nobility, also the need to reward deserving military leaders, gave the country a completely new reputation in a few years. German, Spanish, French and Italian intellectuals were given great possessions and a new society was formed with the nobility loved in the country and also judged. However, with the exception of some lords and knights, Anste le the Streiter joined a courtadel of the Habshurg dynasty (Lemberg). At the same time, people from outside the country, mainly in imperial services, are increasingly beginning to become masters here. In 1772, according to Pekař, the result was that the old Czech regions had about 3 6 - 37% of the land, 27% of which had been involved in the Battle of the WeiBen Mountains, or had come into the country through the confiscations in 1634, and 31% had settled in Bohemia since the end of the Thirty Years' War, i.e. between 1648 and 175o. It is remarkable that the Schwarzenbergs belong to the sexes of the second group, which had only bought in Bohemia since the end of the Thirty Years' War. In contrast to this changed composition and the different origins as separating ones, the uniting moments prevail: the reference to the continuation of imperial grace and the equality of denominational ideological orientation. The nobility's gaze is now directed primarily at the dynasty. The common Catholic denomination in connection with the Baroque culture of the counter-reformation thus creates in a short time a closed, newly shaped in itself homogenous nobility body. Compared with the French development, however, it remains