Beer has been brewed in Budweis since it was founded as Budiwoyz by king Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1245.

Austria-Hungary was represented by Foreign Minister Ottokar Czernin, and from the Ottoman Empire came Talat Pasha.

The cooperation between Henry IV and King Ottokar II was exemplary.

When Ottokar was placed under the Imperial ban, Duke Bolesław II the Bald of Legnica took the occasion, had his nephew Henry seized at Jelcz and imprisoned him in 1277.

While Henry himself did not take part in the Battle on the Marchfeld, he had sent reinforcements to King Ottokar II, whose death was a serious blow to the Wrocław duke.

After hearing the news of Ottokar's death, Henry IV went to Prague and attempted to gain the guardianship of the king's son Wenceslaus II, as one of his closest relatives ( Henry IV's paternal grandmother was Anna of Bohemia, a daughter of late King Ottokar I ) and ally.

Following the version of Ottokar of Styria, should be sought among the Wrocław townspeople ( just like Henry IV's father ) two brothers, one of them was lawyer and the other doctor.

Contesting the election of Rudolf I of Habsburg as emperor, Ottokar was defeated and killed by Rudolf, who took Austria with the assistance of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary.

As a result, within the electoral college, King Ottokar II of Bohemia ( 1230 – 1278 ), himself a candidate for the throne and related to the late Hohenstaufen king Philip of Swabia ( being the son of the eldest surviving daughter ), was almost alone in opposing Rudolph.

In November 1274 it was decided by the Imperial Diet at Nuremberg that all crown estates seized since the death of the Emperor Frederick II must be restored, and that King Ottokar II must answer to the Diet for not recognising the new king.

King Ottokar was placed under the imperial ban ; and in June 1276 war was declared against him.

On 26 August 1278, the rival armies met at the Battle on the Marchfeld, where Ottokar was defeated and killed.

Frederick was succeeded by Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia, who married Agnes of Andechs a relative of the patriarch and endowed the churches and monasteries, established the government mint at the city of Kostanjevica, and finally ( 1268 ) willed to Ottokar II, King of Bohemia, all his possessions and the government of Carinthia and Carniola.

With Carniola, Bled was ceded to Rudolph of Habsburg after he defeated King Ottokar II of Bohemia at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278.

Upon his death the duchy was further reduced in area: a large part of the Eppenstein lands in what is today Upper Styria passed to Margrave Ottokar II of Styria.

The last Spanheim duke was Ulrich III ; he at first signed an inheritance treaty with his brother Archbishop Philip of Salzburg, who however could not prevail against the Bohemian king Ottokar II Přemysl.

In support of Greene and Shakespeare, it has been pointed out that in the 13th century under Ottokar II of Bohemia the kingdom of Bohemia did stretch to the Adriatic, and it was, in fact, possible to sail from a kingdom of Sicily to the seacoast of Bohemia.

When the last Otakar Duke Ottokar IV of Styria died in 1192, the Styrian duchy was inherited by the Babenberg duke Leopold V of Austria according to the 1186 Georgenberg Pact.

Though he was backed by Pope Innocent IV and anti-king William of Holland, he could not prevail against the mighty Přemyslid king Wenceslaus I of Bohemia and his son Ottokar II, who upon Herman's death in 1250 occupied the Babenberg lands.

The city was founded by Hirzo, a knight of King Ottokar II of Bohemia and was granted its municipal charter in 1265.

His government, however, was unpopular among his new subjects, who rebelled against him with the support of King Ottokar II of Bohemia.

In spite of being supported by the German king Rudolph of Habsburg, who defeated Ottokar II at the 1278 Battle on the Marchfeld, Philip never gained actual power.

Stephen was defeated in two smaller battles, but finally won a decisive victory on 21 May 1271 over the Czech and Austrian troops of Ottokar II of Bohemia.

In the next year he joined forces with King Rudolph and they defeated Ottokar II of Bohemia on 26 August 1278 in the Battle on the Marchfeld.

However, after a few years the conflict resumed and Ottokar defeated the Hungarians in July 1260 at the Battle of Kressenbrunn.

Ottokar found allies and collected a large army, but he was defeated with Hungarian assistance and killed at the Battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen on the March on 26 August 1278.

In 1278 King Rudolph I of Germany, a scion of the Sawabian House of Habsburg, finally seized both duchies from King Ottokar II of Bohemia, whom he defeated in the Battle on the Marchfeld.

Béla and his son commenced a military campaign against King Ottokar II's lands, but their troops were defeated on 12 July 1260 in the Battle of Kressenbrunn.

In 1253 Ottokar II became Bohemian king upon the death of his father ; the concentration of power on the western Hungarian border was viewed with suspicion by King Béla IV, who campaigned Austria and Styria but was finally defeated at the 1260 Battle of Kressenbrunn.

Rudolph of Habsburg had been chosen King of the Romans in 1273 and had defeated his rival Ottokar II of Bohemia who was killed at the 1278 Battle on the Marchfeld.

The details of his death, given by the chronicler Ottokar of Styria, are seen by some historians as very reliable and by others as doubtful.

Ottokar of Styria told the story in many details in agreement with that provided by the Kronika Zbrasławska.

* Spital am Semmering is founded by Margrave Ottokar III of Styria.

Leopold increased the territories of the Babenbergs by acquiring Styria under the will of his kinsman Duke Ottokar IV.

* Königsberg ( now Kaliningrad ) is founded by the Teutonic Knights in Prussia and named in honour of king Ottokar II of Bohemia.

After the dynasty had become extinct with Frederick's death at the 1246 Battle of the Leitha River, they were adopted by his Přemyslid successor King Ottokar II of Bohemia.

Otto, aided by Ottokar I, king of Bohemia, and Hermann I, landgrave of Thuringia, drove him from north Germany, thus compelling him to seek by abject concessions, but without success, reconciliation with Innocent.

The foundation stone was laid by Premysl Ottokar II in 1276.

After the city fire of 1275, the foundation-stone for the new church was placed by Ottokar Přemysl.

It is surrounded to the left by the statues of Ottokar of Bohemia and St. John the Baptist and to the right, by the statues of St. John the Evangelist and Leopold the Glorious.

In 1265 it was taken by the king Ottokar II of Bohemia, who retained it for eleven years.