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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 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 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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 Venceslaus II of Bohemia Information
Wenceslaus II Wenceslaus II Premyslid (Czech: Václav II; Polish: Wacław II Czeski; September 17, 1271 – June 21, 1305) was King of Bohemia (1278 - 1305), Duke of Kraków (1291 - 1305), King of Poland (1300 - 1305).
In 1291 Wenceslaus was invited by a group of Polish lords to take over the capital Kraków and its duchy which carried the overlordship of Poland, and in 1300 he was crowned King of Poland.
Wenceslaus was one of the relatives who claimed the throne, and he accepted it from a party of Hungarians on behalf of his young son in the same year.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bohemia
Bohemia, the chief tributaries of the Elbe are the Iser and the Eger.
Bohemia was the starting point of the Thirty Years' War which brought such terrible disasters upon the whole of Germany.
Bohemia is divided ecclesiastically as follows: The Archdiocese of Prague includes the northwestern and central parts of the country, the Diocese of Leitmeritz embraces the northern part, the Diocese of Königgrätz takes in the eastern part, and the Diocese of Budweis the southern part of the country.
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 Otakar II of Bohemia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
Both before and after he became king of Bohemia in succession to his father in September 1253 Otakar was involved in a dispute with Bela IV, king of Hungary, over the possession of Styria, which duchy had formerly been united with Austria.
By an arrangement made in 1254 he surrendered part of it to Bela, but when the dispute was renewed he defeated the Hungarians in July 1260 near Kressenbrunn and secured the whole of Styria for himself, owing his formal investiture with Austria and Styria to the German king, Richard, Earl of Cornwall.
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 bohemia
Bohemia (Čechy in Czech, Böhmen in German) is an historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic.
Bohemia's borders are marked with mountain ranges such as the Bohemian Forest, the Ore Mountains or Krkonoše as part of the Sudeten mountains.
With Bohemia's conversion to Christianity in the 9th century, close relations were forged with the East Frankish kingdom, then part of the so-called Carolingian empire, later the nucleus of the Holy Roman Empire of which Bohemia was an autonomous part from the 10th century.
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 Wenceslaus II of Bohemia - Definition, explanation
Wenceslaus II Premyslid (Czech Václav, Polish Wacław) (September 17, 1271 – June 21, 1305) King of Bohemia (1278 - 1305), Duke of Krakow (1291 - 1305), King of Poland (1300 - 1305).
Wenceslaus II was the son of Ottokar II "The Great", King of Bohemia, and Kunegunda, daughter of Rostislav, the Grand Duke of Kyiv.
Wenceslaus' second wife was Ryksa Elzbieta, daughter of Przemysl II, King of Poland 1295 - 1296.
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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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 Otakar II of Bohemia
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.
Both before and after he became king of Bohemia in succession to his father in September 1253 Otakar was involved in a dispute with Bela IV, king of Hungary, over the possession of Styria, which duchy had formerly been united with Austria.
By an arrangement made in 1254 he surrendered part of it to Bela, but when the dispute was renewed he defeated the Hungarians in July 1260 near Kressenbrunn and secured the whole of Styria for himself, owing his formal investiture with Austria and Styria to the German king, Richard, Earl of Cornwall.
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 Wenceslaus II Of Bohemia articles and news from Start Learning Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wenceslaus II was the son of Premysl Ottokar IIOttokar II "The Great", King of Bohemia, and Kunegunda, daughter of Rostislav of KievRostislav, the Grand Duke of Kyiv.
Wenceslaus' daughter with Judith, Elisabeth I of BohemiaElizabeth (Eliska), married John the Blind of LuxemburgJohn "The Blind" of Luxembourg.
Wenceslaus' second wife was Ryksa Elzbieta, daughter of Przemysl II of PolandPrzemysl II, King of Poland 1295 - 1296.
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 AllRefer.com - Wenceslaus II, king of Bohemia (Czech And Slovak History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Wenceslaus II 1271–1305, king of Bohemia (1278–1305) and of Poland (1300–1305), son and successor of Ottocar II.
From the death (1278) of his father until 1283 the regency was exercised by Otto, margrave of Brandenburg, appointed by the German king Rudolf I of Hapsburg.
Wenceslaus repulsed Albert's invasion (1304) and was preparing to invade Austria when he died.
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 Wenceslaus II Definition / Wenceslaus II Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wenceslaus II Premyslid (Czech The Czech language is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak, Polish, Pomeranian, and Sorbian.
Wenceslaus II was the son of Ottokar IIThere were the following persons known as Ottokar II:...
He was succeeded by his son, Wenceslaus IIIWenceslaus III Premyslid (Czech and Slovak Václav, Hungarian Vencel), (October 6, 1289 - August 4, 1306) was the king of Hungary (1301 - 1305) and king of Bohemia (1305 - 1306)....
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 WENCESLAUS III OF BOHEMIA FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
On August_27 1301, Wenceslaus III was crowned in Székesfehérvár as the King of Hungary and as such assumed the name Ladislaus V (Hungarian: ''V. László'', Czech and Slovak: ''Ladislav V.'').
At that time the Kingdom_of_Hungary was de-facto split into several principalities ruled by the corresponding nobles and Wenceslaus was only accepted as the king of Hungary by the rulers in Slovakia (Matthew_Csák and the Omodejs) and western present-day Hungary (the Güssings Köszegs).
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 Wenceslaus I of Bohemia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wenceslaus was the son of Ottokar I and Konstancia, daughter of Bela III, King of Hungary.
In 1241 Wenceslas successfully repelled a raid on Bohemia by Batu Khan, although Moravia suffered devastation at the hands of the Mongols.
Wenceslas' foreign policy was based around uniting the Duchy of Austria with the Kingdom of Bohemia following the death of the last Babenberg Duke, Frederick II, at the battle of the Leitha river in 1246.
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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.
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.
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 other bishops.
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Wenceslaus II Premyslid (; ; September 17, 1271 – June 21, 1305) was King of Bohemia (1278 - 1305), Duke of Cracow (1291 - 1305) and King of Poland (1300 - 1305).
Before Wenceslaus became of age, the government was handled by Otto IV Margrave of Brandenburg, who is said to have held Wenzel captive in several locations.
Wenceslaus III (October 6 1289 – August 4 1306); King of Bohemia, King of Hungary and King of Poland
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 Koniginhof - LoveToKnow 1911
KONIGINHOF (Dvur Kralove in Czech), the seat of a provincial district and of a provincial law-court, is situated in north-eastern Bohemia on the left bank of the Elbe, about 160 kilometres from Prague.
of Bohemia (1278-1305), it was given by him to his wife Elizabeth, and thus received the name of Dvur Kralove (the court of the queen).
During the Hussite wars, Dvur Kralove was several times taken and retaken by the contending parties.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Moravia
The country remained in the hands of Hungary until the battle of Lechfeld in 955, when it was united with Bohemia by the Bohemian Duke Boleslaw of the Premysl family, the confederate of Emperor Otto I.
Moravian petty princes repeatedly rebelled against the sovereignty of the Bohemian duke; thus when, on the death of Wratislaw II, Bretislaw II appointed his brother his successor in contravention of the law regulating succession by seniority, long wars were waged against him by the rightful heir, Duke Udalrich of Brünn (1101, 1105, and 1107).
Wladislaw II and Premysl, as the invasions of the Mongols in 1241 and the Cumans in 1252 had swept away numbers of the inhabitants into captivity.
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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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 AllRefer.com - Hussite Wars (Wars And Battles) - Encyclopedia
On the death (1419) of Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (see Wenceslaus, emperor), the Hussites in Bohemia and Moravia took up arms to prevent his brother : their archenemy, Emperor Sigismund : from entering into his succession.
From 1419 to 1436, Bohemia had no effective king, although Witowt of Lithuania was elected (1421) antiking and sent his nephew, Sigismund Korybut, to Bohemia as his vicar.
On the death (1439) of Sigismund's successor, Albert II, the Utraquist leader George of Podebrad governed Bohemia : first in the name of Ladislaus V and from 1458 as king.
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 1291 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All glassmakers in Venice are forced to moved to the island of Murano in order to contain the risk of fire, thus establishing the glass industry there.
Klenová castle is constructed in southern Bohemia as part of a frontier defense system.
June 17 - Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Khalil captures Acre, thus exterminating the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem — the final Christian landholding remaining from the Crusades — and ending the Ninth Crusade and effectively all Crusades by eliminating the possibility of further attacks on the Holy Land.
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 Charles I of Hungary: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Charles I of Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was the grandson of King Charles II of Naples, son of Charles Martel and Clemencia, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph I.
Travelling in August 1300 from Naples to Dalmatia, he was crowned at Esztergom[?] after the death in 1301 of the last Arpad[?] king Andrew III of Hungary[?] but was forced in the same year to surrender the crown to Wenceslaus II of Bohemia.
In the meantime Wenceslaus transferred his rights to Duke Otto III of Bavaria[?] in 1305, who in his turn was taken prisoner by the Hungarian rebels.
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 Genealogy - The Rulers of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Otto II was a cousin of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria.
Frederick I Barbarossa, Duke of Swabia, son of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, Duke of Swabia and nephew of Conrad III.
Frederick II, son of Henry VI and of Matilda, daughter of King Henry II of England, and grandson of Frederick Barbarossa, was born 1194 and died 1250.
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 AllRefer.com - Premysl (Czech And Slovak History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Its semilegendary founder was the peasant Premysl, whom the Bohemian Princess (sometimes called Queen) Libussa chose as her husband at some time in the 8th cent.
He was succeeded by Wenceslaus I, Ottocar II, Wenceslaus II (who was also king of Poland), and Wenceslaus III, with whom the dynasty died out in 1306.
Wenceslaus III's sister married John of Luxembourg, elected king of Bohemia in 1310.
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 Wenceslaus III de Bohemia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wenceslaus III Premyslid (Václav checo y eslovaco, Vencel húngaro), (de octubre el 6 de 1289 - de agosto el 4 de 1306) era el rey de Hungría (1301 - 1305) y rey de Bohemia (1305 - 1306).
Wenceslaus III era el hijo de Wenceslaus II, rey de Bohemia y Polonia, y Judith von Habsburg, la hija del emperador romano santo Rudolf I. He tenía el problema que en su tiempo allí era peleas internas en Hungría y en Polonia, es decir en los países esos él ruled/wanted a la regla.
Wenceslaus III, sin embargo, deseó demandar la su derecha hereditaria al trono polaco, pero fue asesinado bajo condiciones económicas misteriosas en Olomouc, Moravia de agosto el 4, 1306 mientras que en una campaña a Polonia.
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