WenceslausIIIPremyslid (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).
WenceslausIII was the son of Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia and Poland, and Judith von Habsburg, the daughter of Rudolf I, King of the Romans.
Wenceslaus was the last of the male Premyslid rulers of Bohemia.
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Bohemia (Czech: Čechy; German: Böhmen, Russian: Bogemiya) is a 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 Šumava, the Ore Mountains or Giant Mountains 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.
WenceslausWENCESLAUS[Wenceslaus] 1361-1419, Holy Roman emperor (uncrowned) and German king (1378-1400), king of Bohemia (1378-1419) as Wenceslaus IV, elector of Brandenburg (1373-76), son and successor of Emperor Charles IV.
Wenceslaus II WENCESLAUS II [Wenceslaus II] 1271-1305, king of Bohemia (1278-1305) and of Poland (1300-1305), son and successor of Ottocar II.
WenceslausIIIWENCESLAUSIII[WenceslausIII] c.1289-1306, king of Bohemia (1305-6) and of Hungary (1301-5), son and successor of Wenceslaus II.
At the end of 1224 Pope Honorius III announced to all Christendom the appointment of Bishop William of Modena as Papal Legate for Livonia, Prussia, and other countries.
Brandenburg ruled Pomerelia (Eastern Pomerania) in the 1250s and had a treaty of August 8, 1305 between Brandenburg's rulers and WenceslausIII of Bohemia, which promised the March of Meissen to the Bohemian crown in exchange for Pomerelia.
During the course of the war, the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) was seized (November 1308) by the Teutonic Knights, called in by King Władysław I of Poland.
Czechs name Přemysl as the reputed ancestor of the line of dukes and kings which ruled in Bohemia from 873 or earlier until the murder of III of Bohemia">WenceslausIII[?] in 1306.
According to legend Přemysl was a peasant of Stadice[?] who attracted the notice of Libussa (Libuše), daughter of a certain Krok, who ruled over a large part of Bohemia, and is said to have been descended from Samo[?].
His family became extinct in the male line when WenceslausIII died, but through females the title to Bohemia passed from the Přemyslids to the House of Luxemburg[?] and later to the House of Habsburg.
, he married Elizabeth, sister of WenceslausIII of Bohemia, and in 1310 he was chosen king of Bohemia, which had been in virtual anarchy since Wenceslaus's death (1306).
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WenceslausIII was unable to assert his power in Hungary and relinquished the crown to Otto, Duke of Bavaria, in 1305.
WenceslausIII, 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.
His sister, Elizabeth (Eliska), heiress of Bohemia, married John "The Blind" of Luxembourg.
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.
1253, king of Bohemia (1230-53), son and successor of Ottocar I. He invited large numbers of Germans to settle in the villages and towns of Bohemia and Moravia.
Its semilegendary founder was the peasant PÅemysl, whom the Bohemian Princess (sometimes called Queen) Libussa chose as her husband at some time in the 8th cent.
On the death (1301) of Andrew III, last of the Arpad dynasty, Charles was the candidate of Pope Boniface VIII for the crown of St. Stephen, but the Hungarians electedWenceslausIII of Bohemia; in 1308 the Hungarian diet at last chose Charles, who was crowned in 1310.
He reorganized the army on a feudal basis, using the nobility for its personnel, and taxed the bourgeoisie.
In 1339 he secured the succession to Casimir III of Poland for his eldest son, later Louis I of Hungary.
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There were several revolts against the king, and he was finally slain by the once-favored Cumans.
He died heirless; his successor, Andrew III (reigned 1290-1301), who issued from another branch of the Arpad dynasty, was succeeded as king of Hungary by KingWenceslausIII of Bohemia.
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