Battle of Frankenhausen

…and led them at the Battle of Frankenhausen, where they were butchered, and he was captured and beheaded. Luther execrated Müntzer’s memory because he seized the sword in defense of the gospel and challenged the social order. Some Marxists, on the other hand, later exalted Müntzer as the prophet of…

…defeat of his forces at Frankenhausen in May 1525 marked the final victory of the old order over the would-be new dispensation.