Ulrich Vavak of Neuhaus Characters

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Twice during his life, he was appointed royal mint master, and after the outbreak of the Hussite uprising, he was one of the few representatives of the higher Czech nobility to join the rebels.
We know nothing about his life before the outbreak of the uprising, except that in the years 1402-1403 (or 1404), during King Wenceslas’s absence from Bohemia, he held the office of mint master.
His later life is documented, during which he supported Jan Hus and complained to King Sigismund about his burning. He initiated the negotiations of the Four Articles of Prague (which defined the direction and demands of the uprising) and was elected as a representative of the nobility to the provisional government at the Congress of Tschaslau. He marched into battle alongside Jan Zizka, and in 1421, he became the mint master of Kuttenberg for the second time.

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