Marriage and Children
On 11 February 1252, Ottokar married Margaret, Duchess of Austria. Margaret was sick and left the marriage childless when she was repudiated in 1261. On 25 October 1261, Ottokar married his second wife Kunigunda of Slavonia. They probably had four children.
Ottokar also had two natural sons and some daughters. The most important of this issue was Nicholas I, Duke of Troppau (Czech: Mikuláš I. Opavský, Polish: Mikołaj I Opawski). His first-born child was never accepted as the crown prince to the Bohemian crown by the sitting pope, and was therefore in 1269 given the Duchy of Opava instead.
The most significant of Ottokar's natural children are as follows:
- Nicholas I, Duke of Troppau (1255–1318) (Mikuláš I. Opavský), the king's first-born son and also an ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty in Opava.
- John, provost of Vyšehrad
From the marriage with Kunigunda there were four children:
- Henry of Bohemia (1262–1263)?.
- Kunigunde of Bohemia (January 1265 – 27 November 1321), married Boleslaus II of Masovia.
- Agnes of Bohemia (5 September 1269 – 17 May 1296), married Rudolf II, Duke of Austria.
- Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (17 September 1271 – 21 June 1305).
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