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St. John of Nepomuk (born c. 1345, Nepomuk, Bohemia [now in Czech Republic]—died March 20, 1393, Prague; canonized 1729; feast day May 16) was one of the patron saints of the Czechs who was murdered during the bitter conflict of church and state that plagued Bohemia in the latter 14th century. In 1383 John began studies at Padua, Italy, where ...
The deposed King Henry fled with his wife Anne of Bohemia (the sister of John's wife) to his duchy (the Duchy of Carinthia). The coronation of John and Elizabeth to the Bohemian throne took place on 7 February 1311, making them King and Queen of Bohemia. The castle at Prague was uninhabitable, so John made residence in one of the houses on the ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Jan Hus (born c. 1370, Husinec, Bohemia [now in Czech Republic]—died July 6, 1415, Konstanz [Germany]) was the most important 15th-century Czech religious reformer, whose work was transitional between the medieval and the Reformation periods and anticipated the Lutheran Reformation by a full century. He was embroiled in the bitter controversy ...
May 17, 2022 · [The Shores of Bohemia] is evidence enough that the old fascination still sparkles.” ―Christoph Irmscher, The Wall Street Journal “[The Shores of Bohemia] is invaluable . . . ‘Where we live the land is untamed, with sandy roads that for the most part do not lead anywhere,’ is how Francis Biddle, the U.S. attorney general and Nuremberg ...
- John Taylor Williams
JOHN (1296-1346), king of Bohemia, was a son of the emperor Henry VII. by his wife Margaret, daughter of John I., duke of Brabant, and was a member of the family of Luxemburg. Born on the 10th of August 1296, he became count of Luxemburg in 1309, and about the same time was offered the crown of Bohemia, which, after the death of Wenceslas III ...
Oct 4, 2023 · None of the frontal charges came close to breaking the English line and yet they kept coming. There is no question who the bravest knight on the field that day was. King John of Bohemia was born on August 10, 1296. He was the eldest son of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VII. At age 14, he was married and crowned King of Bohemia.
John of Nepomuk. John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) ( Czech: Jan Nepomucký; German: Johannes Nepomuk; Latin: Ioannes Nepomucenus [1]) ( c. 1345 – 20 March 1393) [2] was a saint of Bohemia ( Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of ...
