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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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