Czech Lands The Czech Republic Moravia Bohemia proper

Czech Lands

The Czech Republic Moravia Bohemia proper Czech Silesia (Lower Silesia)

Kingdom of Bohemia (1198 -1918) Electorate of the Holy Roman Empire (from immemorial-1806) Crown land of the Austrian Empire (1804 -1867) Cisleithanian state of the Austria-Hungary (1867 -1918)

Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1327 -1635) Checked Eagle of Moravia Piast Eagle of Silesia Ox of Lower Lusatia Eagle of Upper Silesia Wall of Upper Lusatia En surtout Bohemian Lion Upon Crown of Saint Wenceslaus Garlanded by lime

Boii (“the terrible”)

bo + h *g em- + ia *g hem- > … > das Heimat … > Birmingham *g hemja > … > земля

Marcomanni (“men of the borderlands”), Quadi, Lombards (Langobardi)

The Iron Crown of Lombardy … Charlemagne 800 … Charles IV 1355 … Napoleon 1805 …

Great Moravia (833 -902)

Carolingian Empire division (843 Verdun Treaty) Louis the German a grandson of Charlemagne King of Bavaria 817 -843 King of Eastern Francia 843 -876

Holy Roman Empire (962– 1806) Otto the Great (sandstone, Magdeburg) Francis ll (bronze, Prague)

Chronica Boëmorum Cosmas of Prague c. 1045– 1125

Brothers Lech, Czech (and Rus) Forefather Czech (Bohemus)

Duke Krok with his daughters: Libuše, Kazi, and Teti Princess Libuše prophesies glory of Prague

Přemysl the Ploughman bast shoes Přemyslid Coat of Arms

Bořivoj, the first historically documented Duke of Bohemia Bořivoj and his wife Saint Ludmila were baptised by Saint Methodius Ludmila of Bohemia (c. 860 -921)

Boleslaus the Cruel A Jewish slave trader being presented to Boleslaus the Cruel

Saint Wenceslaus , Duke of Bohemia c. 921 - c. 935

Sure I can do it. They call me Boleslaus the Cruel.

So you’d like to become Boleslaus the Pious… Have you been told already, what happened to Uncle Wenceslaus on his way to the church?

Boleslaus the Pious (967– 999) On 28 September 995, Boleslaus stormed Libice and massacred the members of the Slavník dynasty

Duchy of Bohemia during the reign of Boleslaus I. and Boleslaus II.

Boleslaus the Brave King of Poland Boleslaus the Blind (965– 1037) Emperor Henry II

Saint Adalbert of Prague The execution of St. Adalbert by the pagan Prussians

Bretislaus I of Bohemia is kidnapping his future wife Judith of Schweinfurt from a monastery

Vratislaus ll Duke of Bohemia: 1061 -1085 King of Bohemia: 1085 -1092 Coronation of the first King of Bohemia in 1085

Golden Bull of Sicily 1212 confirming the royal title for Ottokar l and his descendants Tomb of Ottokar I in St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague

Venceslas I Agnes of Bohemia

Linguistic map of Czechoslovakia in 1930

Ottokar ll 1253– 78

In 1256, Ottokar ll founded a city Královec, later known as Köningsberg

John, Count of Luxembourg, married Elisabeth, the daughter of Wenceslaus II

Philip VI 1328 -1350 Eduard III 1327 -1377

Hundred Years' War 1337 -1453 Philip VI of France

1346

In almost all battles of the 14 th century, according to contemporaries, shooting at knights in plate armor was ineffective French Armies of the Hundred war. Oxford, 2000 Full knight's armor of the 14 th century

With God's help it will never be that a Bohemian king would run from a fight!

Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg … ioannes, rex bohemiæ, comes luxemburgensis, henrici vii imperatoris filius, caroli iv imperatoris pater, wenceslai et sigismundi imperatorum avus …