A nejmenoval se ten chlapík náhodou Laminger namísto Lamingen. Přece ta tradovaná věta zněla Lomikare, Lomikare, do roka a do dne....
28.11.1695 Jan Sladký Kozina was executed
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In July 1695, military action against disobedient Chod villages began. Several initiators of the uprising were arrested. Among them was Jan Sladký Kozina.
Jan Sladký Kozina was born on November 10, 1652 in Újezd, Domažlice. He was nicknamed Kozina after the farm he farmed, which was traditionally called "u Kozinů". In Újezd lived another family, the Sladek family, and to distinguish them they were called Rosoch family after their homestead.
In 1678 Sladký-Kozina married Dorota Pelnářová from Újezd. They had six children together, mostly sons, four of whom died in infancy. The fourth son, Adam, became the heir to the farm of about ten hectares of cultivated fields and meadows.
"We know nothing remarkable about the life of Jan Sladký-Kozina until 1692. He was illiterate, like the other peasants of Chodsko, and he may have been able to read a little. He was probably quite eloquent and popular among the people. Otherwise, he would not have been chosen in 1692, together with Kryštof Hrubý, the Draženov town clerk, to be sent to the imperial court in Vienna," writes Jan Bauer in his book What Would Happen If...
For the first time, the Chod deputation was received in Vienna in September 1692 by Emperor Leopold I himself, a shorter man with a strikingly chubby lower lip, so typical of the Habsburgs. As was his nature, he treated the deputation with outward friendliness and understanding, which gave the Chod peasants false hopes. The Emperor did at first listen, but after Lomikar's complaint and the Chods' refusal to obey and work in the meantime, the Emperor imposed a severe penalty on them in 1693.
On 6 July 1693, military action against the disobedient Chod villages began. Several initiators of the uprising were arrested. "As it was decided to execute one rebel, the choice fell on the hardened Kozina. He was taken to Pilsen, where Lamingen brought 66 men from the Chod villages with their sons to see the exemplary execution on November 28, 1695. The place is commemorated by a memorial plaque on the wall of the Pilsen brewery," writes Jan Kvirenc in his book Czech History - 100 Memorable Places.
Jan Sladký was supposed to have said at a meeting that even if he was to be executed, he would remain an honest man. In the end, the sentence of execution by hanging was indeed imposed only on him.
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