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An engraved portrait of a bearded man with a long moustache, in a fur-trimmed coat, his coat of arms below
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Václav Budovec of Budov

Diplomat, scholar and one of the leaders of the Bohemian Protestants, beheaded at seventy.

Made by
After an older portrait
Made
18th century
Technique
Engraving
Credit
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain (CC0).
The event: The Old Town Square execution →Source ↗

Budovec had served as a diplomat in Constantinople and fought for the Letter of Majesty of 1609, which promised Bohemia freedom of religion. He was seventy in 1621. The 1621 news sheet writes his name across the edge of the scaffold.

An engraved portrait of a bearded man with a long moustache, in a fur-trimmed coat, his coat of arms below

The Old Town Square execution

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