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Bohemia ( / boʊˈhiːmiə / boh-HEE-mee-ə; [1] Czech: Čechy [ˈtʃɛxɪ] ⓘ; [2] German: Böhmen [ˈbøːmən] ⓘ; Upper Sorbian: Čěska [ˈtʃɪska]; Silesian: Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ...
Bretislav I (Czech: Břetislav I.; 1002/1005 – 10 January 1055), known as the "Bohemian Achilles", of the Přemyslid dynasty, was Duke of Bohemia from 1035 until his death. Youth. Bretislav was the son of Duke Oldřich [1] and his low-born concubine Božena. As an illegitimate son who could not obtain a desirable wife by conventional means ...
Duchy of Bohemia. The Duchy of Bohemia, also later referred to in English as the Czech Duchy, [1] [2] ( Czech: České knížectví) was a monarchy and a principality of the Holy Roman Empire in Central Europe during the Early and High Middle Ages. It was formed around 870 by Czechs as part of the Great Moravian realm.
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house of Přemysl. Břetislav I (born 1005?—died Jan. 10, 1055) was the prince of Bohemia from 1034 to 1055, who permanently attached the province of Moravia to Bohemia. Břetislav succeeded his father, Oldřich, to the Bohemian throne after a period of dynastic struggles. He proceeded to win back lands that earlier had been lost to Poland ...
Bohemia Spytihněv II: 1031 First son of Bretislaus I and Judith of Schweinfurt: 10 January 1055 - 28 January 1061 28 January 1061 aged 29/30: Bohemia (also in Moravia from 1056) Ida of Wettin 1054 one child Children of Bretislav I, divided their inheritance: Spytihnev kept Bohemia; the others divided Moravia: Conrad received Brno; Vratislav ...
