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

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- 9.- Expulsion, departure or flight of the German nobility, who had bought himself before the Battle of the White Mountain in the Lamde. The starting reorder is determined by the necessities of the victor and his contemporary state ideas. An anachronism here is to want to subdue motives of the time of mature nationalism. III As a summary result of the battle on the White Mountain and the new state order regime, the destruction of the low, predominantly Czech-Hustic-minded nobility and the transformation and reorientation of the remaining remnants of the rich and high nobility result. The denominational moment overlapped the national. Catholic Cheehens are closer to the Habsburg dynasty xi than Protestant Germans. The great estates and emigration of the Protestant nobility, also the need to reward deserving military leaders, gave the country a completely new look in a few years. German, Spanish, French and Italian genders were given great possessions and formed a new society with the nobility remaining in the country, which was organized in the same way. Instead of the fighters, however, with the exception of some lords and knights, a court aristocracy devoted to the Habsburg dynasty (Lemberg). At the same time, lords who have come to the country mainly in imperial services start to settle here to an increasing extent. According to Pekař in 1772, the result is that the old Czech sexes occupy about 36 - 37% of the land, 27% as a result of the battleTam White Mountain, - 7 -