Pavel Prčka – pobělohorský odsouzenec, Valdštejnův sekretář a (re)emigrant (Životopisná črta raně novověkého měšťana a úředníka u příležitosti 400. výročí staroměstské exekuce)

Abstract

Based on the archive sources, the aim of the paper is to enlighten life story of Old Town burgher Pavel Prčka who was as one of the representants of Czech Estates Uprising sentenced to execution, loss of honor and property in May 1621. In the end, his sentence had been mitigated and Prčka lived remarkable autumn of life. He was sentenced again twice (in one case to the death for falsifying entries in the land registers) and found himself in jail several times. His fate provides us a symptomatic testimony to the twist and turns and vicissitudes of history brought about by the Thirty Yearsʼ War.