When Charles landed in Dalmatia in September 1385, Mary's kingdom was already at war with both Sigismund's brother Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia and Germany, and the queen mother's cousin, King Tvrtko I of Bosnia.

In April, Sigismund was brought to Hungary by his brother Wenceslaus and the queens were compelled to accept him as Mary's co-ruler by a treaty signed in Győr.

Over the next few years, Boniface IX was entreated to abdicate, even by his strongest supporters: King Richard II of England ( in 1396 ), the Diet of Frankfurt ( in 1397 ), and King Wenceslaus of Germany ( at Reims, 1398 ).

Wenceslaus I ( ; c. 907 – September 28, 935 ), or Wenceslas I, was the duke ( kníže ) of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935, purportedly in a plot by his own brother, Boleslav the Cruel.

Wenceslaus was son of Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia from the Přemyslid dynasty.

In 921, when Wenceslaus was thirteen, his father died and he was brought up by his grandmother, Saint Ludmila, who raised him as a Christian.

According to Cosmas's Chronicle, one of Boleslav's sons was born on the day of Wenceslaus ' death, and because of the ominous circumstance of his birth the infant was named Strachkvas, which means " a dreadful feast ".

The usual English spelling of Duke Wenceslas's name, Wenceslaus, is occasionally encountered in later textual variants of the carol, although it was not used by Neale in his version.

John campaigned in Bohemia and was elected king by deposition of Henry of Carinthia, he thereby became one of the seven prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire and – in succession of Wenceslaus III – claimant to the Polish and Hungarian throne.

In Luxembourg, he was succeeded by his son by his second wife, Wenceslaus.

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.

He did not abandon his hopes of the throne, however, which were eventually realised: In 1298, he was chosen German king by some of the princes, who were bothered about Adolph's attempts to gain his own power basis in the lands of Thuringia and Meissen, again led by the Bohemian king Wenceslaus II.

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 was deposed in 1400 as German King, but continued to rule as King of Bohemia.

Wenceslaus was born in the Imperial city of Nuremberg, the son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV by his third wife Anna von Schweidnitz, a scion of the Silesian Piasts, and baptized at St. Sebaldus Church.

During his long reign, Wenceslaus ' grip on power was tenuous at best, as he came into repeated conflicts with the Bohemian nobility led by the House of Rosenberg.

The March of Moravia was divided between his cousins Jobst and Procopius, and his uncle Wenceslaus I was made Duke of Luxembourg.

In 1394 Wenceslaus ' cousin Jobst of Moravia was named regent, while Wenceslaus was arrested at Králův Dvůr.

# Anna ( 5 May 1487, Ansbach – 7 February 1539 ), married on 1 December 1518 to Duke Wenceslaus II of Cieszyn.

* Both countries shared a common fate in the 14th century when John the Blind of Luxembourg married Eliška Přemyslovna sister of the deceased King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia and became king of Bohemia.

Following her death on 31 December 1386 ( allegedly mangled by one of Wenceslaus ' beloved deer-hounds ), he married her first cousin once removed, Sofia of Bavaria, on 2 May 1389.

* Elzbieta, married Wenceslaus of Płock

# Guta ( Jutte / Bona ) ( 13 March 1271 – 18 June 1297, Prague ), married 24 January 1285 to King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and became the mother of king Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Poland and Hungary, of queen Anne of Bohemia ( 1290 – 1313 ), duchess of Carinthia, and of queen Elisabeth of Bohemia ( 1292 – 1330 ), countess of Luxembourg.

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.

* Cunigunde of Hohenstaufen ( 1200 – 1248 ), married King Wenceslaus I, King of Bohemia

On 24 January 1285, Wenceslaus married Judith of Habsburg, daughter of Rudolf I, to whom he had been betrothed since 1276.

* Agnes ( 6 October 1289 – soon after 6 August 1296 ), twin of Wenceslaus ; married in 1296 to Rupert, eldest surviving son of German King Adolf of Nassau.

In 1305, Wenceslaus III married Viola of Teschen, a daughter of Mieszko I, Duke of Teschen ; the marriage was childless.

In 1224, Wenceslaus married Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen, second daughter of Philip of Swabia, King of Germany, and his wife Irene Angelina.

# 1285 Rikissa, daughter of King Valdemar of Sweden ; one daughter: Ryksa Elizabeth ( 1286 – 1335 ), married King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia in 1300, secondly King Rudolph I of Bohemia in 1306

He married Elisabeth, the daughter of Wenceslaus II.

To further legitimate the Habsburg claims to the Bohemian and the Polish throne, Albert had Rudolph married to Elisabeth Richeza of Poland from the Piast dynasty, widow of the predeceased King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia.

However tensions with the House of Habsburg arose when in 1306 Henry married Anna Přemyslovna, the elder sister of King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia.

In the meantime, her aunt and competitor for the duchies of Austria and Styria, Margaret, married Prince Ottokar of Bohemia, the second son and next heir of Wenceslaus I.

# Henry VI ( c. 1270 – 1335 ), married Anna Přemyslovna, daughter of King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia, elected King of Bohemia 1306 and 1307 – 10, Duke of Carinthia 1310 – 35, Count of Tyrol, father of Countess Margaret Maultasch of Tirol

The historic church of St. Wenceslaus in Chicago | St. Wenceslaus in Chicago's Polish Village, Chicago | Polish Village is where Richard Nickel married Adrienne Dembo in 1950.

Nickel married Adrienne Dembo, a young Polish-American girl at St. Wenceslaus in Chicago, an Art Deco church noted for its design on June 10, 1950.

In 1300 Richeza was married to a widower, King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia ( 1271 – 1305, reigned in Bohemia from 1278 and in parts of Poland from 1304 ), who wanted to use her succession rights in order to gain Poland.

King Wenceslaus, prompted by his grudge against Sigismund, at first gave free vent to his indignation at the course of events in Constance ; and his wife openly favored the friends of Huss.

Early in 929 the joint forces of Duke Arnulf of Bavaria and King Henry I the Fowler reached Prague in a sudden attack, which forced Wenceslaus to resume the payment of a tribute which had been first imposed by the East Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia in 895.

After the death of Ruprecht in 1410, his succession at first proved difficult, as both Wenceslaus ' cousin Jobst of Moravia and Wenceslaus ' brother Sigismund of Hungary were elected King of Germany.

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.

At first he tried to mediate in the imperial confusion between King Wenceslaus and the party of Rupert of the Palatinate, but he fought on the side of Rupert in September 1399 nonetheless.

Married first to William IV, Count of Holland and second to Wenceslaus of Luxemburg.

In that same year, work began at the north end of the site for the first church of the St. Wenceslaus parish.

Václav () is a Czech male first name of Slavic origin, sometimes translated into English as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas.

The first church was an early Romanesque rotunda founded by Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia in 925.

The first factual mention of an ancestor of this clan dates back to 1237, during the reign of the Přemyslid king Wenceslaus I of Bohemia.

The chronicler Wenceslaus Hajek speaks in 1541 ( perhaps due to an incorrect reading of his sources ) of two Johns of Nepomuk being drowned ; the first as confessor, the second for his confirmation of the abbot.

Jutta's maternal grandparents were Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and his first wife, Judith of Habsburg.

The first of those ( the Litomyšl Privilige ) occurred in 1291, and was issued by Wenceslaus II of Bohemia.

The first mention of the German name Trautenau, from which the modern name Trutnov is derived, is from a document of King Wenceslaus II in 1301.

* Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg ( 1337 – 1383 ), the first Duke

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