* Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg is declared as a rival to Holy Roman Emperor Wenceslaus.

From 1560 Bielsko was held by Frederick Casimir of Cieszyn, son of Duke Wenceslaus III Adam, who due to the enormous debts his son left upon his death in 1571, had to sell it to the Promnitz noble family at Pless.

Archbishop Siegfried III of Mainz acted as German regent until 1242, when Frederick chose Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia, and Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, to assume this function.

Wenceslaus and Duke Frederick formed an alliance against the Emperor.

Wenceslaus managed to negotiate the expansion of Bohemia north of the Danube, annexing territories offered by Duke Frederick in order of forming and maintaining their alliance.

In June 1239, Wenceslaus and Otto left the Reichstag at Eger, abandoning the service of excommunicated Emperor Frederick II.

In 1242 Henry, together with King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, was selected by Emperor Frederick II to be administrator of Germany for Frederick's under-age son Conrad.

When he again refused to attend the 1235 diet in Mainz, Emperor Frederick II finally ostracized him and gave permission to King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia to invade the Austrian lands.

The knights will awake and under the command of St. Wenceslaus and bring aid to the Czech people when they face ultimate danger ( see also King in the mountain legends ).

King Rudolph I was unable to secure the succession to the German throne for his son, especially due to the objections raised by Ottokar's son King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, and the plans to install Albert as successor of the assassinated King Ladislaus IV of Hungary in 1290 also failed.

Wenceslaus ( also Wenceslas ; ;, nicknamed der Faule (" the Idle "); 26 February 1361 – 16 August 1419 ) was, by inheritance, King of Bohemia ( as Wenceslaus IV ) from 1363 and by election, German King ( formally King of the Romans ) from 1376.

Wenceslaus also faced serious opposition from the Bohemian nobles and even from his chancellor, the Prague archbishop Jan of Jenštejn.

King Wenceslaus also gave him Neumark to facilitate communication between Brandenburg and Poland.

Charles IV (,, ; 14 May 1316, Prague – 29 November 1378 ), born Wenceslaus ( Václav ), was the second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first king of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor.

The only foreign troops who joined him were those of King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia and the combined forces of some French Knights Templars and Hospitallers ; some sources report that at the last moment, however, they stopped their troops close to Legnica, probably fearing that the Christian Army would become an easy prey to the Mongolian troops ; the tradition that the Teutonic Knights were also represented by a small contingent is today disputed.

For example, the double marriage in 1385 at Cambrai of his son, John the Fearless, and his daughter, Marguerite, to Margaret of Bavaria and William of Bavaria, son and daughter of Albert, Count of the neighbouring Hainault and Holland, prepared the later union of Hainault and Holland with Burgundy and Flanders, as carried out by Philip's grandson, Philip the Good ; the marriages also inserted the new Valois Burgundy dynasty into the Wittelsbach network of alliances: the other daughters of Count Albert had married William I, Duke of Guelders and Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia ; their cousin, Isabeau of Bavaria, had married Charles VI of France, and become Queen of France.

* St. Wenceslaus Church, named for Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia, a Roman Catholic Church founded nearby by immigrants from Bohemia who worked at the Leland Lake Superior Iron Foundry and at the Gills Pier sawmill also remains.

The Czechs name Přemysl, the Ploughman, ( also spelled Premysl or Przemysl ; in Czech Přemysl Oráč, ) as the mythical ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty, containing the line of princes ( dukes ) and kings which ruled in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from 873 or earlier until the murder of Wenceslaus III in 1306.

In addition to appearing in works named for Libuše, Přemysl is also a subject of the writings of Wenceslaus Hajek of Libočany published in 1541, a 1779 ballad by Johann Gottfried Herder, fairy tales by Johann Karl August Musäus, and Clemens Brentano's 1815 The Founding of Prague.

Ottokar's son Wenceslaus was also betrothed to Rudolph's daughter Judith.

Ottokar's son Wenceslaus was also betrothed to Rudolph's daughter Judith.

Wenceslaus has also numerous illegitimate children, including Jan Volek (??

However, soon Matthew Csák switched sides in 1303 and started to support Wenceslaus ' rival Charles Robert of Anjou, who was supported also by the Holy See.

In many cases by 1400 the Signori were able to found a stable dynasty over their dominated city ( or group of regional cities ), obtaining also a nobility title of sovereignty by their formal superior, for example in 1395 Gian Galeazzo Visconti bought for 100, 000 gold florins the title of Duke of Milan from the emperor Wenceslaus.

The grounds of the Cathedral also contain the distinctive circular Chancery Building, circa 1965, designed by the Peruvian-American modernist architect Wenceslaus Sarmiento.

King Wenceslaus II ( 1271-1305 ) managed to get the crown of Poland and for his son also the crown of Hungary.

It is also possible that Wenceslaus, wanting to convert his subjects to Christianity more easily, chose a saint whose name ( Svatý Vít in Czech ) sounds very much like the name of Slavic solar deity Svantevit.

Aside from his rather bold vaults, the peculiarities of his work can also be seen in the design of pillars ( with classic, bell-shaped columns which were almost forgotten by High Gothic ), the ingenious dome vault of new St Wenceslaus chapel, the undulating clerestory walls, the original window tracery ( no two of his windows are the same, the ornamentation is always different ) and the blind tracery panels of the buttresses.

In late 1400, Rupert's son, also named Rupert, celebrated there his election as King of Germany and Rome after the deposition of King Wenceslaus of Luxembourg.

The Royal Archcathedral Basilica of Saints Stanislaus and Wenceslaus on the Wawel Hill (), also known as the Wawel Cathedral (), is a Roman Catholic church located on Wawel Hill in Kraków, Poland.

He is also known in simplified form as Adam Michna and during his life as Adamus Wenceslaus Michna de Ottradowicz.

Pope Martin V, who while still Cardinal Otto of Colonna, had attacked Huss with relentless severity, energetically resumed the battle against Huss's teaching after the enactments of the Council of Constance, seeking to eradicate completely the doctrine of Huss, for which purpose the co-operation of King Wenceslaus had to be obtained ; in 1418, Sigismund succeeded in winning his brother over to the standpoint of the council by pointing out the inevitability of a religious war if the heretics in Bohemia found further protection.

A reference to this kind of page is found in the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslaus: " Hither, page, and stand by me, if thou know ' st it, telling ..."

Having given Moravia to one brother, John Henry, and erected the county of Luxembourg into a duchy for another, Wenceslaus, he was unremitting in his efforts to secure other territories as compensation and to strengthen the Bohemian monarchy.

Germany and the Duchy of Bohemia came into significant contact with one another in 929, when German King Henry I had invaded the Duchy to force Duke Wenceslaus I to pay regular tribute to Germany.

In order to secure dynastic rights to Austria, Wenceslaus had another female Babenberg proclaimed Duchess and betrothed to his son.

After seeking counsel of an old friend, Wenceslaus, king of Bohemia, Joannes was joined at Wrocław by another Minorite, Benedykt Polak, appointed to act as interpreter.

In the chaotic years after the fall of the House of Árpád, Esztergom suffered another calamity: in 1304, the forces of Wenceslaus II, the Czech king occupied and raided the castle.

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.

Upon Wenceslaus ' assassination on August 4, Henry was elected his successor by the Bohemian nobility — against the will his former ally King Albert I of Germany, who intended to install his eldest son Rudolf of Habsburg on the Bohemian throne.

In 1766, Wenceslaus Linck was the first person to reach San Felipe by land, and in 1772 the Lt.