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 | | When, however, a 14th-century chronicler writes that “German speech is commoner than Czech almost in all towns and at the court”, this may be taken as referring in particular to the speech habits of the upper nobility and prosperous burghers. |
 | | In 1278 Přemysl Ottokar II was killed in battle against the Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg, having failed to secure territorial gains into Austria given by his wife’s status as the Babenburg heiress. |
 | | His successor Václav II expanded into Poland and Hungary, but his son Václav III was assassinated in 1306, only a year after his father's death, and the male line of the Přemyslid dynasty came to an abrupt end. |
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