The Czech crown and the king in conceptions of Czech nobility at the turn of middle ages and modern period

The political system of the Estates, developing in the 15th century and gaining its final form in the last quarter of the century, placed also in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown a new political subject next to the monarch, formed on the statal level. In the Kingdom of Bohemia it was first of all the nobility - the high nobility and the knights - who claimed their share of political power. Gaining a political ground, they developed a collective estates' consciousness and formed their view of the role of the monarch and the Czech crown. Both estates acquired a considerable power towards the end of the century - under the rule of the king Vladislaus II the Jagiellonian. The nobility focused their attention on the bodies of government, the highest being the land diet. Soon they also took interest in obtaining the land rights and privileges, which they saw as a basis for assessing their rights and the way of claiming their rights against the monarch