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  Wenceslaus III of Bohemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wenceslaus III Premyslid (Czech and Slovak Václav, Hungarian Vencel, Polish Wacław), (October 6, 1289 – August 4, 1306) was the king of Hungary (1301 - 1305) and king of Bohemia (1305 - 1306).
Wenceslaus III was the son of Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia and Poland, and Judith von Habsburg, the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf I.
Wenceslaus III, however, wanted to claim his hereditary right to the Polish throne, but was murdered under mysterious circumstances in Olomouc, Moravia on August 4, 1306 while on a campaign to Poland.
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Wenceslaus II Wenceslaus II, 1271-1305, king of Bohemia (1278-1305) and of Poland (1300-1305), son and successor of Ottocar II.
Ottocar II Ottocar II or Přemysl Ottocar II, c.1230-1278, king of Bohemia (1253-78), son and successor of Wenceslaus I. Ottocar shrewdly exploited the disorders of the great interregnum in the Holy Roman Empire to build an empire reaching from Bohemia to the Adriatic.
Wenceslaus III Wenceslaus III, c.1289-1306, king of Bohemia (1305-6) and of Hungary (1301-5), son and successor of Wenceslaus II.
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 Wenceslaus II of Bohemia
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (September 27, 1271 - June 21, 1305), was King of Bohemia from 1291-1305, and King of Poland from 1300-1305.
He was the son of Premysl Ottokar II, also known as Otakar II the Great, Markgraf von Morawien, King of Bohemia 1253-1278 and his wife Kunigunda von Halicz.
Wenceslaus II is the Good King Wenceslaus celebrated by the Christmas carol of that name.
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 Wenceslaus II of Bohemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wenceslaus II was the son of Ottokar II "The Great", King of Bohemia, and Kunegunda, daughter of Rostislav, the Grand Duke of Kyiv.
Wenceslaus' daughter with Judith, Elizabeth (Eliska), married John "The Blind" of Luxembourg.
Wenceslaus' second wife was Ryksa Elzbieta, daughter of Przemysl II, King of Poland 1295 - 1296.
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 Wenceslaus II, king of Bohemia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
1271–1305, king of Bohemia (1278–1305) and of Poland (1300–1305), son and successor of Ottocar II.
Wenceslaus soon adopted Zavis’s anti-Hapsburg policy and greatly extended his power.
Wenceslaus repulsed Albert’s invasion (1304) and was preparing to invade Austria when he died.
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 Przemysl II of Poland
Przemysł II (October 14, 1257 – February 8, 1296), was a duke of Poznań, Greater Poland, Kraków and Pomerania, and King of Poland from 1295 until his death.
He was born to Przemysł I;, duke of Greater Poland, and Elisabeth, daughter of Henry II the Pious of Silesia.
According to the Treaty of Kepno (1282) he was the co-ruler of Mestwin II, duke of Eastern Pomerania (Poland) and in 1294 his successor successor in Poland.
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 Sigismund II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sigismund II Augustus (1520-1572), Polish: Zygmunt II August, was the only son of Sigismund I the Old., King of Poland, whom he succeeded in 1548, and Bona Sforza.
A far less imposing figure than his father, the elegant and refined Sigismund II was nevertheless an even greater statesman than the stern and majestic Sigismund I.
Sigismund II died at his beloved Knyszyn on July 6, 1572, at the age of 52.
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 Augustus II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Augustus II, nicknamed "the Strong" (May 12, 1670–February 1, 1733; (Polish: August II Mocny; German: August II der Starke) was Elector of Saxony (where he was known as Frederick Augustus I) from 1694 to 1733 and King of Poland from 1697 to 1704 and again from 1709 to 1733.
Although he was unsuccessful in his attempt to make the Polish kingdom hereditary, his eldest son, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, followed him as King of Poland as Augustus III, although he had to be installed by a Russian army in the War of the Polish Succession.
Although this figure would be extremely difficult to verify, Augustus II did father a very large number of illegitimate children, the most famous of whom was Maurice, comte de Saxe (his son by), the brilliant French military commander.
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 Encyclopedia: Henry II of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Boleslaus II the Bald (Polish: Bolesław II Łysy Rogatka) (1220/5 - December 26, 1278) - High-Duke of Poland in 1241.
Przemysł II Przemysł II (October 14, 1257 – February 8, 1296), was a duke of Poznań, Greater Poland, Kraków and Pomerania, and King of Poland from 1295 until his death.
Wenceslaus II on Jan Matejkos painting Wenceslaus II Premyslid (Czech Václav, Polish Wacław) (September 27, 1271 –; June 21, 1305) King of Bohemia (1278 - 1305), Duke of Krakow (1291 - 1305), King of Poland (1300 - 1305).
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 Station Information - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia
Wenceslaus III Premyslid (Czech Václav), (October 6, 1289 - August 4, 1306).
Wenceslaus III was unable to assert his power in Hungary and relinquished the crown to Otto, Duke of Bavaria, in 1305.
Wenceslaus III, however, wanted to claim his hereditary right to the Polish throne, but was murdered in Olomouc, Moravia on August 4, 1306 while on his way to Poland to be crowned.
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 Station Information - Przemysl II of Poland
Przemysł II (1257 died 1296), was a duke of Poznan, Greater Poland, Cracow and Pomerania, and King of Poland from 1295 until his death.
He was born to Przemysl I, duke of Greater Poland, and Elisabeth, daughter of Henry II the Pious of Silesia
According to the Treaty of Kepno (1282) he was the co-ruler of Mestwin II, duke of Eastern Pomerania (Gdansk) and in 1294 his successor successor in Gdansk.
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 Courtly Lives - Royal Odrowaz
Ottokar II married (1)Margaret of Austria in 1252, in the Pankratius Chapel, on the Schlossberg..
King Wenceslas II, grandson of King Henry Probus, son of Henry II of Silesia, King of Poland 1298-1290, reigned from 1253-1278, and died in 1305.
Nicholas I (illegitimate son of Ottokar II by Margarareta von Chuening?), Duke of Troppau, married Adelaide ____.
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 Casimir IV of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Casimir IV the Jagiellonian (Polish: Kazimierz Jagiellończyk, Lithuanian Kazimieras Jogailaitis) (1427 - 1492), of the House of Jagiello was grand duke of Lithuania from 1440 and king of Poland from 1447 until his death.
The son of king Wladislaus II Jagiełło and younger brother to Wladislaus III, Casimir succeeded the latter after a three-year interregnum.
He married in 1454 Elisabeth (1438-1505), the daughter of Albert II of Habsburg, the previous Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Elisabeth of Luxembourg, heiress of Bohemia.
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 OTTAWA (TRIBUTARY) - LoveToKnow Article on OTTAWA (TRIBUTARY)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1230-1278), king of Bohemia, was a son of King Wenceslaus I., and through his mother, Kunigunde, was related to the Hohenstaufen family, being a grandson of the German king, Philip, duke of Swabia.
During his father's lifetime he ruled Moravia, but when in 1248 some discontented Bohemian nobles acknowledged him as their sovereign, trouble arose between him and his father, and for a short time Ottakar was imprisoned.
1267), sister of Duke Frederick II., the last of the Babenberg rulers of the duchy and widow of the German king, Henry VII.
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 Otakar II of Bohemia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
He was a son of King Wenceslaus I of the Premysl dynasty, and through his mother, Kunigunde, was related to the Hohenstaufen family, being a grandson of the German king, Philip of Swabia.
During his father's lifetime he ruled Moravia, but when in 1248 some discontented Bohemian nobles acknowledged him as their sovereign, trouble arose between him and his father, and for a short time Otakar was imprisoned.
However, in 1251 the young prince secured his election as duke of Austria, where he strengthened his position by marrying Margaret († 1267), sister of Duke Frederick II, the last of the Babenberg rulers of the duchy and widow of the German king, Henry VII.
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 AllRefer.com - Wenceslaus II, king of Bohemia (Czech And Slovak History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Wenceslaus II, king of Bohemia, Czech And Slovak History, Biographies
Wenceslaus II 1271–1305, king of Bohemia (1278–1305) and of Poland (1300–1305), son and successor of Ottocar II.
At the invitation of some Polish lords he accepted (1291) the duchy of KrakOw and in 1300 was crowned king of all Poland.
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 Boleslaus I of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After death of his father around 992 he was able to expel the second wife of his father, Oda, with her sons, and unite the country again.
The emperor Henry II obliged Boleslaus to give a pledge of allegiance again for the lands he held in fief.
The son of Boleslaus, Mieszko II crowned himself immediately after his father's death.
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 Encyclopedia: Albert II of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Albert II Habsburg (August 10, 1397 - October 27, 1439), German ruler, king of Bohemia and Hungary, and (as Albert V) duke of Austria, was born on August 10, 1397, the son of Albert IV of Habsburg, duke of Austria.
Her maternal grandfather was Count Herman II of Celje, whose parents were the Slovenian ruler Count Herman I of Celje and Catherine of Bosnia (who apparently descended also from Nemanjic kings of Serbia and from Catherine of Hungary, a daughyter of Stephen V of Hungary).
His children, with Elisabeth II of Bohemia (of Luxemburg), were: Elisabeth of Luxembourg was the only daughter of Emperor Sigismund, king of Bohemia and Hungary, the last Luxemburg on the Imperial Throne.
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 John III Sobieski, King of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After a distinguished military career, and following the death of King Jan II Kazimierz's successor, Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki, John Sobieski was elected by the szlachta (nobility) as king of Poland on May 21 1674 and was crowned on February 2, 1676.
King John III was succeeded by Augustus II, elector of Saxony who stayed in power primarily because of Russian support.
Teresa Kunegunde, (1676-1730) - In 1695, the Princess married Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria
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 Stanislaus I Leszczynski of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1697, as cupbearer of Poland, he signed the confirmation of the articles of election of Augustus II.
In 1703 he joined the Lithuanian Confederacy, which the Sapiehas with the aid of Swedish gold had formed against Augustus, and in the following year was selected by Charles XII of Sweden to supersede Augustus.
His son-in-law supported his claims to the Polish throne after the death of Augustus II in 1733, which led to the War of the Polish Succession.
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 KONIGGRATZ - LoveToKnow Article on KONIGGRATZ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The cathedral was founded in 1303 by Elizabeth, wife of Wenceslaus II; and the church of St John, built in 1710, stands on the ruins of the old castle.
Konigin), was prefixed when it became one of the dower towns of the queen of Wenceslaus II., Elizabeth of Poland, who lived here for thirty years.
Kdniggrtz was the first of the towns to declare for the national cause during the Hussite wars.
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 Przemysl II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Przemysl II Przemysl II Przemysł II (1257 died 1296), was a duke of Poznan, Greater Poland, Cracow and Pomerania, and King ofPoland from 1295 until his death.
According to the Treaty of Kepno (1282) he was the co-ruler of Mestwin II, duke of Eastern Pomerania (Poland) and in 1294 hissuccessor successor in Poland.
As he was the strongest Polish duke of the time, possessed the royal insignia from Cracow, and had support of the clergy for the unification of Poland, he was crowned king of Poland in 1295 by the archbishop of Gniezno, Jakub Świnka, and 5 otherbishops.
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 Wenceslaus III, king of Bohemia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
c.1289–1306, king of Bohemia (1305–6) and of Hungary (1301–5), son and successor of Wenceslaus II.
Unable to assert his authority in Hungary, he relinquished (1305) his claim to Duke Otto of Bavaria.
Wenceslaus tried, however, to assert his hereditary claim to the Polish crown, but he was assassinated at Olomouc while marching to Poland.
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 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Online Research :: Information about Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His father, known as John the Blind, king of Bohemia, was an ardent francophile and patron of the composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut - he died at Battle of Crecy in 1346 while fighting on the French side.
Charles's sister Bonne of Luxembourg, married the eldest son of Philip VI of France, the future John II of France, in 1335.
His third wife was Anne of Swidnica, 1339 – 1362), by whom he had a son Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor (1361 – 1419), Charles's successor as Emperor and king of Bohemia.
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 Ancestors of Donald Wayne RENEAU
Ottokar II of BOHEMIA and AUSTRIA Duke of Babenberg
Parents: Wenceslas II of BOHEMIA and Judith of HAPSBURG.
Parents: Ottokar II of BOHEMIA and AUSTRIA Duke of Babenberg and The Widow of BABENBERG Duchess of Austria.
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 List of Polish rulers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vladislaus II the Exile (1138–1146) (Władysław II Wygnaniec, exiled by his brothers)
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1291–1305) King of Poland 1300–1305
In 1849 authonomy of Grand Duchy was abolished, but titlle of Grand Duke was used by kings of Prussia and Emperors of Germany till abdication of William II in 1918
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 John II Casimir Of Poland Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
John II Casimir Vasa (Polish: Jan II Kazimierz Waza, March 22, 1609 - December 6, 1672), King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Duke of Opole in Silesia.
John Casimir was thus the nephew of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
In 1660 John Casimir II was forced to renounce his claims to the Swedish throne and acknowledge Swedish sovereignty over Livonia and city of Riga.
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