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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 personal union as part of the ...
Bohemia was ruled rather ineffectively by the Jagiellon dynasty from 1471 to 1526, and in the latter year the Habsburg archduke Ferdinand I of Austria laid claim to the throne, thereby establishing Habsburg rule over Bohemia.
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The Kingdom of Bohemia was an Imperial State in the Holy Roman Empire. The Bohemian king was a prince-elector of the empire. The kings of Bohemia, besides the region of Bohemia itself, also ruled other lands belonging to the Bohemian Crown, which at various times included Moravia, Silesia, Lusatia, and parts of Saxony, Brandenburg, and Bavaria.
Apr 19, 2024 · George (born April 23, 1420, Poděbrady, Bohemia [now in Czech Republic]—died March 22, 1471, Prague) was the king of Bohemia from 1458. As head of the conservative Utraquist faction of Hussite Protestants, he established himself as a power when Bohemia was still under Habsburg rule, and he was thereafter unanimously elected king by the estates.
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Mar 24, 2021 · After the Hussite king died in 1471, the ruling family of Bohemia became the Polish-Lithuanian Jagiellonian dynasty. However, their rule was somewhat brief. After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the Battle of Mohacs against the Ottomans in 1526, the Kingdom of Bohemia came under the rule of the Habsburg monarchy and ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Vladislas II (born 1456—died March 13, 1516, Buda, Hung.) was the king of Bohemia from 1471 and of Hungary from 1490 who achieved the personal union of his two realms. The eldest son of Casimir IV Jagiełło, king of Poland, Vladislas was elected king of Bohemia in 1471. The early part of his reign was spent in conflict with the Hungarian ...
In 1471, aged fifteen, Vladislaus, son of Casimir IV of Poland-Lithuania was elected as king. He was a weak monarch, much to the delight of the Bohemian nobles, who increased their power at royal expense. He was invited to take the crown of Hungary in 1490, and thereafter ruled both kingdoms.
