György Dózsa
Leader of the 1514 Hungarian peasants' revolt / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Gheorghe Doja" redirects here. For the opera, see György Dózsa (opera). For other uses, see Gheorghe Doja (disambiguation).
The native form of this personal name is Dózsa György. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
György Dózsa (or György Székely,[note 1][1] Romanian: Gheorghe Doja; c. 1470 – 20 July 1514) was a Székely man-at-arms from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary who led a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility during the reign of King Vladislaus II of Hungary. The rebellion was suppressed, and Dózsa captured, tortured, and executed by being seated on a throne (itself smouldering according to legend), crowned with red-hot iron, devoured alive by his followers under duress, then quartered.