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The Přemyslid dynasty

Questions

  • What were the names of Kork's 3 daughters?
  • Who was the first historically documented ruler of Bohemia?
  • Where got Wenceslaus I. his christian education?
  • What were the first Bohemian coins called?
  • Who ensured that the Czech throne would be hereditary?
  • Who and in what year granted the Golden Bull of Sicily to Bohemia?
  • What's the name of the dynasty that ruled after the House of Přemysl?

Wenceslaus III.

Ottokar I. of Bohemia

Wenceslaus I.

Mythology

  • Kork - Kazi (healer), Teta (magician) and Libuše (gift of seeing the future)
  • Libuše - cliff (Vltava): "I see a great city whose glory will touch the stars." => castle and town
  • considered - ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty and the Czech people as a whole
  • male population demanded a male ruler
  • Přemysl the Ploughman
  • raised the Bohemian duchy to a kingdom within the Holy Roman Empire
  • Golden Bull of Sicily - 1212 - Frederick II.
  • recognized O I. (+ sons) as king - title - hereditary
  • highest economic prosperity - one of the most powerful dynasties in central Europe

  • king of Hungary, Bohemia and Poland
  • last king of House of Přemysl
  • assassinated in 1306 while travelling to Poland
  • no wife or children - Přemyslid dynasty died out
  • 1306 - 1310 wars on heritage of the Czech throne

  • throne was passed to the Luxembourg dynasty
  • patron of Prague, Bohemia and the Czech republic
  • ruled during a conversion to christianity
  • *903 (2nd, Vratislav and Dragomir)
  • christian education - Ludmila
  • murder of his father -> mother - temporary ruler

until 925

  • christian laws
  • under protection of Germany - preists,

favoured latin

1212

935

870

1306

1310

800

Ottokar II. of Bohemia

Boleslaus I.

Bořivoj I.

  • House of Přemysl
  • Czech royal dynasty - the Duchy of Bohemia and Kingdom of Bohemia
  • on the Czech throne over 300 years
  • origin - dated somewhere around 800
  • the Iron and Golden king
  • expanded the kingdom (Adriatic sea)
  • hoping to become the HRE but hasn't succeeded -> Rudolf II.
  • declaired war to take his lands back
  • Battle on the Marchfeld (26 August 1278)-

defeated and killed

  • first historically documented duke (Kosmo's chronicle - the grandson of Libuše and Přemysl)
  • wife st. Ludmia (grandmother of saint Wenceslaus)
  • first christian ruler
  • Spytihněv I. a Vratislav I.

  • murdered his bro in order to become ruler

(28.9.935)

  • "May God forgive you, brother."
  • the cruel
  • strengthened the Bohemian state and

expanded its territory

  • <-> trade, the introduction of silver mining

and the minting of the first local coinage - the Prague denarius

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