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Frederick, Duke of Bohemia

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Reign
  
1172 – 1173

Successor
  
Conrad II

Children
  
Ludmilla of Bohemia

Predecessor
  
Sobeslav II

House
  
Premyslid dynasty

Reign
  
1178 – 1189

Role
  
King

Successor
  
Sobeslav II

Name
  
Frederick, of


Frederick, Duke of Bohemia

Predecessor
  
Vladislav II of Bohemia

Died
  
March 25, 1189, Prague, Czech Republic

Spouse
  
Albert I, Margrave of Meissen

Parents
  
Gertrude of Babenberg, Duchess of Bohemia, Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia

Similar People
  
Vladislaus II - Duke of Bohemia, Ottokar I of Bohemia, Vratislaus II of Bohemia, Ludmilla of Bohemia, Swietoslawa of Poland

Frederick (Czech: Bedřich) (died 25 March 1189) was the Duke of Olomouc from 1164, then Duke of Bohemia from 1172 to 1173 and again from 1178 to his death. He was the son of King Vladislaus II, who abdicated in 1172 in his favour. He was unable to hold on to his duchy, however, because his tenancy was approved by neither the national diet nor the emperor. He was deposed in September the year following by the emperor at the Diet of Hermsdorf. The Emperor Frederick I, godfather and namesake of Frederick, nominated Oldřich, son of Soběslav I, but he renounced the throne in favour of Soběslav II, who was sympathetic to the peasantry, but antagonistic to both nobles and the emperor.

Frederick allied with the emperor and defeated Soběslav at the battles of Loděnice and Prague. The emperor recognised Frederick as an imperial prince, but he also raised the bishop of Prague, Henry Bretislaus, to princely status, making him a direct vassal of the emperor. He also appointed Conrad Otto margrave over Moravia and thus divided the duchy into three parts dependent on him. When Frederick, who was practically a puppet of the emperor, died, he was succeeded by Conrad Otto.

By his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Géza II of Hungary, he had the following issue:

  • Helena (b.1158), affianced to Peter, son of Manuel I Komnenos, in 1164
  • Sophia (died 25 May 1185), married Albert, Margrave of Meissen
  • Ludmilla (died 14 August 1240), married Count Albert III of Bogen in 1184, and then Louis I, Duke of Bavaria, in 1204
  • Vratislaus (d.1180)
  • Olga (fl.c.1163)
  • Margaret (died 28 August 1167)
  • References

    Frederick, Duke of Bohemia Wikipedia


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