The article provides an investigation into the foundational activities of Kutná hora burghers at the turn of the 15th centruy. It summarizes data on the holdings of the patronage rights to rural parish churches in the hands of burgher families. It also presents an analysis of reports on the pious foundations of altars, chapels, or liturgical memorials by burghers in order to establish how much Kutná Hora burghers utilized these churches as family burial grounds and thus also places of family memory, representation, and legitimization of their power or social position., Vojtěch Vaněk., and Obsahuje literaturu a odkazy pod čarou