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Originally named Hynek Jevišovský of Kunstadt, he was a fierce and fearless soldier who became famous as a robber knight during the Moravian Margraviate Wars, in which he repeatedly raided Austria in 1401 and 1402, continuing even after the first capture of the Bohemian king in Vienna.
Only after the escape of King Wenceslas IV did the Austrian Duke Albrecht lose patience and so in 1404 he marched on Znojmo with 12,000 soldiers supported by another 12,000 soldiers of Sigismund of Luxembourg. However, the Dry Devil knew about the campaign. When the enemy troops stood in front of the town, it was already fortified and with substantial help from his friend Jan Sokol of Lamberg he repelled the attack. It should be noted that a dysentery epidemic, which had spread among the enemy to such an extent that both enemy nobles were infected, also contributed greatly to this. Albrecht IV of Austria even died of the disease.
And so the Dry Devil continued to pillage and plunder.
Eventually, however, even Wenceslas IV ran out of patience and had Hynek imprisoned in 1407. He was soon released, but did not enjoy his freedom very long, for he died in 1408.

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