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This article considers the Passional of Abbess Kunigunde of Bohemia (National Library of Prague / Národní knihovna České republiky, Praha, Ms.XIV.A.17), a manuscript dating from 1312-14. Users have intentionally damaged several of the images in the book, but seemingly for different reasons.
In 1224, Wenceslaus married Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen, third daughter of Philip of Swabia, King of Germany, and his wife Irene Angelina. Wenceslaus encouraged large numbers of Germans to settle in the villages and towns in Bohemia and Moravia. Stone buildings began to replace wooden ones in Prague as a result of the influence of the new settlers.
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Czechoslovakia. Sudetenland. Bohemia, historical country of central Europe that was a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire and subsequently a province in the Habsburgs ’ Austrian Empire. Bohemia was bounded on the south by Austria, on the west by Bavaria, on the north by Saxony and Lusatia, on the northeast by Silesia, and on the east by Moravia.
The Life Summary of Kunigunde. When Kunigunde von Halitsch Queen of Bohemia was born in 1245, in Galicia, Ukraine, her father, Prince Rostislav Mikhailovich, was 35 and her mother, Anna Arpad of Hungary Princess of Hungary, was 19. She married Přemysl Ottokar II. of Bohemia King of Bohemia on 25 October 1261, in Bratislava, Slovakia.
