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The Kingdom of Bohemia (Czech: České království), sometimes referenced in English literature as the Czech Kingdom, was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe. It was the predecessor of the modern Czech Republic. The Kingdom of Bohemia was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman Empire.
- List of Bohemian Monarchs
In 1002-04, Bohemia was invaded twice by Poland. Bohemia was...
- Lands of The Bohemian Crown
Name. The Lands of the Bohemian Crown (Latin: Corona regni...
- Ottokar I
Ottokar I (Czech: Přemysl Otakar I.; c. 1155 – 1230) was...
- List of Bohemian Monarchs
Matthias Corvinus ( Hungarian: Hunyadi Mátyás; Romanian: Matia/Matei Corvin; Croatian: Matija/Matijaš Korvin; Slovak: Matej Korvín; Czech: Matyáš Korvín; 23 February 1443 – 6 April 1490) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I. After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 ...
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John
The death of the last Premyslid duke, Wenceslas III (Václav III), left the Czech dukes in a period of hesitation as to the choice of the Czech king, until they selected John of Luxembourg “Blind,” the son of Friedrich VII, the king of Germany and Roman Empire, in 1310, with conditions, including extensive concessions to be granted to themselves. John married the sister of the last Premyslid but the Czech kingdom was an unexplored territory for him; he did not understand the customs or needs o...
Charles IV
In 1334, John appointed his oldest son Charles IV as the de facto administrator of Czech lands, setting off the period of Luxembourg dual reign. Six years later, he safeguarded the Czech crown for Charles and seconded his endeavors to obtain the Roman kingship, in which Charles succeeded in 1346, still during his father’s life. Charles IV was crowned as the King of Bohemia in 1346 and labored to uplift not only Bohemia but also the rest of Europe. As the Holy Roman Emperor and the Czech king,...
Sigismund
Charles IV’s son, Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, the last of the House of Luxembourg on the Czech throne, as well as the King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor, left behind a legacy of contradictions. He lost the Polish crown in 1384, but gained the Hungarian crown in 1387. In an effort to amalgamate the Dalmatian coast under his sovereignty, he organized a crusade, but was defeated by the Osman Turks. After a brief internment by the Hungarian nobility in 1401, he refocused his efforts on B...
"You who are the warriors of God and His law. Ask God for help and hope in Him that in His name you may gloriously triumph" (from a Hussite battle hymn). The Hussite Wars, which began in 1419, sent people flocking to Prague, plundering monasteries and other symbols of what they viewed as the corrupt Catholic Church, but it was under Jan Žižka, the ...
After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was elected the King of Bohemia, and the country became a constituent state of the HabsburgMonarchy, enjoying religious freedom as one of the most liberal countries of the Christian world between 1436 and 1620.
Following World War I, Bohemia declared independence and on October 28, 1918, became the core of the newly-formed country of Czechoslovakia, which combined Bohemia, Moravia, Austrian Silesia, and Slovakia. Under its first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia became a prosperous liberal democratic republic. Following the Munich Agreemen...
Freeling, Nicolas. The Seacoast of Bohemia. New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. ISBN 089296555XKann, Robert A. A History of the Habsburg Empire: 1526–1918. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. ISBN 0-520-02408-7Oman, Carola. The Winter Queen: Elizabeth of Bohemia. London: Phoenix, 2000. ISBN 1842120573Sayer, Derek. The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 0691057605Czechoslovakia. Today part of. Czech Republic, Germany, Poland. Close. The Kingdom of Bohemia was a kingdom that covered the Czech part of the European region of Bohemia. Its capital was Prague. Form 1526, it formed the northwestern part of the lands of the Habsburg Monarchy.
Mar 29, 2024 · Otakar II was the king of Bohemia (1253–78), who briefly established his crownland as the most powerful state of the Holy Roman Empire. The son of King Wenceslas I of Bohemia, Otakar was elected duke of Austria in November 1251 and succeeded his father as king of Bohemia and Moravia in September.
The Duchy of Bohemia was established in 870 and raised to the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1198. Several Bohemian monarchs ruled as non-hereditary kings beforehand, first gaining the title in 1085. From 1004 to 1806, Bohemia was part of the Holy Roman Empire, and its ruler was an elector. During 1526–1804 the Kingdom of Bohemia, together with the other lands of the Bohemian Crown, was ruled under a ...
