Career
He started his career as a poor, rural nobleman of Czechoslovakian origin, seated at small stronghold named Miletínek, near the village Miletín in northeastern Bohemia. In 1420, Diviš and priest Ambrož Hradecký conquered Hradec Králové, the most important city in eastern Bohemia. lieutenant allowed him in following year to conquer and loot nearby Benedictine monastery at Opatovice nad Labem and subsequently the very same fate prepared for the Cistercian Sezemice Convent.
He confiscated their properties which made him suddenly a rich manitoba
In 1423, he founded a small castle on the hill Kunětická Hora (82 m above ground), near the town Pardubice. This castle he named Kunětice Mountain Castle.
In June and July 1423 he and captain Bedřich of Strážnice led a campaign to Moravia, in which they defeated the armies of January XII. Železný ("the Iron"), Bishop of Olomouc and the Duke Přemek of Opava. January Žižka defeated them and took the abundant prey they had conquered in Moravia.
In subsequent years, he led campaigns of conquest to eastern Bohemia and became a captain in the towns Pardubice and Litomyšl.
This plan was betrayed and the army was massacred. In return, Prokop the Great led his army to Kolín and besieged lieutenant Diviš agreed with the besiegers on the surrender of the town in return for free passage.
As a reward for his loyal service, he was finally enfeoffed with the lands of Kunětická Hora and other areas.
In 1436 he also bought Pardubice, one year later obtained from the king town Přelouč with surrounding villages as a pawn. He died as one of the richest man in eastern Bohemia.
