Peasants Revolt (Rex Francorum)

The Peasants' Revolt was a large scale uprising in Germany in the wake of the first truce in the Hundred Years War. The revolt was due to high taxation, plague, and a radical heretical christian sect known as Bauerny. The revolt was also against foreigners and has been treated historically in two different ways: One sees the Peasants' Revolt as an early example of one class rising up against another while the other sees it as a fanatical and populist series of pogroms. The revolt was generally recorded in the time in a negative fashion except by certain monks in the HRE who regarded it as "god speaking out against the sinful kaiser". The revolt was brutally crushed by Kaiser Albert III and the House of Trangau, the lords of the Duchy of Styria which the was centralized in. Historical affects of the revolt resulted in the lowering of taxes and the expulsion of Magyars and Czechs living in Southern Germany.