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| Battle of Trnava (1430) | |||||||
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| Part of theHussite Wars | |||||||
 Death of Velek Koudelník of Březnice in the Battle of Trnava | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Kingdom of Hungary Serbian Despotate |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Emperor SigismundStibor II of StiboriczJohn of Maroth |  Velek Koudelník of Březnice †Prokop the Lesser | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 10,000–12,000 | 10,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 6,000 | 8,000 | ||||||
TheBattle of Trnava orBattle of Nagyszombat took place during theHussite Wars between theHussites and theHungarian-Royalists-Serbian army nearTrnava (Nagyszombat) in theKingdom of Hungary (today inSlovakia). The battle was fought in three phases, on 23, 25 and 28 April 1430[1][2] and ended in Hussite victory.
In the summer of 1430, 10,000 Hussites fromMoravia invaded Hungary underVelek Koudelník of Březnice. The Hussites inPozsony County looted and set on fire 100 villages. Against Koudelník stood an army underSigismund, andStibor of Stiboricz. The army included Hungarian and Transylvanian soldiers and Serbs. Another army underJan Mátik z Tolovec was composed of Royalists. Mátik was jealous of Stiboricz, because of the trust placed in Stiboricz by Sigismund. At the front of the army, Stiboricz and the Hungarian-Serbian forces charged theHussites, but Mátik and the Royalists deliberately hung back. The Royalists army belatedly arrived; the plan of campaign was a concentrated charge against the Hussite war-wagons. Koudelník was killed in the battle, and Sigismund's army was forced to flee. Hussites retreated to the Moravian border that night.
In the battle, 6,000 Royalists, Serbian and Hungarian troops, and 8,000 Hussites were killed. In 1431 the Hussite army again invaded Upper Hungary, butMiklós Rozgonyi defeated the Hussites in thebattle of Ilava.
