Wenceslaus II of Bohemia

Wenceslaus II Of Bohemia

Wenceslaus II Přemyslid (Czech: Václav II.; Polish: Wacław II Czeski; 27 September 1271 – 21 June 1305) was King of Bohemia (1278–1305), Duke of Cracow (1291–1305), and King of Poland (1300–1305).

He was the only son of King Ottokar II of Bohemia and Ottokar's second wife Kunigunda. He was born in 1271, ten years after the marriage of his parents. Kunigunda was the daughter of Rostislav Mikhailovich, lord of Slavonia, son of a Grand Prince of Kiev, and Anna of Hungary, daughter of Béla IV of Hungary. His great-grandfather was the German king Philip of Swabia. He was a member of the Přemyslid dynasty.

Read more about Wenceslaus II Of Bohemia:  Early Years, King of Bohemia and Poland, Silver in Kutná Hora, The Crown of Hungary and Death, Review of Government of Wenceslaus II, Family, Ancestry

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