Family
Wenceslaus was a son of Ottokar I of Bohemia and his second wife Constance of Hungary. He was a younger paternal half-brother to Margarethe of Bohemia and Božislava of Bohemia. His half-sisters were respectively the first Queen consort of Valdemar II of Denmark and the first wife of Henry I, Count of Ortenburg. His sister Judith of Bohemia was married to Bernhard von Spanheim, Duke of Carinthia. His sister Anna of Bohemia was married to Henry II the Pious, Duke of Wrocław. His sister Agnes of Bohemia was Mother Superior of the Franciscan Poor Clares nuns of Prague. In 1989, Agnes was canonized as a saint by Pope John Paul II.
His maternal grandparents were Béla III of Hungary and his second wife Agnes of Antioch (Agnes de Châtillon). Agnes was a daughter of Raynald of Châtillon and Constance of Antioch (joint princes of Antioch).
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