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Personal data Drahomira van Stodor 

• She was born in the year 900.

  Attention: Was younger than 16 years (10) when child (Boleslaw I "de Verschrikkelijke" van Bohemen) was born (??-??-910) .

• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Drahomíra (ca. 900 - 953) was regentes van Bohemen.
  
  Drahomíra was een Slavische prinses van de Havelii die trouwde Vratislav I van Bohemen die in 915 hertog van Bohemen werd. Nij zijn dood in 921 trad zij samen met haar schoonmoeder Ludmilla van Bohemen op als regentes. Snel ontstonden twee kampen aan het hof: de oudste prins Wenceslaus de Heilige met Ludmilla en de jongere prins Boleslav I van Bohemen met Drahomíra. Uiteindelijk zocht Ludmillla haar toevlucht in het kasteel van Tetín, waar ze 921 door handlangers van Drahomíra werd gedood. Drahomíra bouwde een aan Sint-Michiel gewijde kerk op het graf van Ludmilla. Drahomíra werd in 922 door haar zoon Wenceslaus in ballingschap gezonden (met steun van de koning van Duitsland) maar mocht in 925 met alle eer weer terugkeren. Na de moord op Wenceslaus vluchtte ze naar een stam in het oosten van Bohemen.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Drahomíra (877/90–died after 935) was a Bohemian duchess consort, wife of duke Vratislav I of Bohemia and mother of Saint Wenceslas and Boleslaus I of Bohemia. She was the regent of Bohemia in 921–924 during the minority of her son.
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  Life
  
  Drahomíra's homeland was around Brandenburg, a castle near present-day Berlin. She was a princess of the Havolans.
  
  She married Vratislav I of Bohemia and gave birth to at least three children: Saint Wenceslas, Boleslaus I and Strezislava. She led her husband to cooperation with her vernaculars, which waged war against Saxony. After her husband's untimely death in 921, she and her mother-in-law, Saint Ludmila, divided the government of Bohemia.
  
  Popular history depicts Ludmila as a restrained and pious grandmother, but it is likely that the political demands of government called for more energy and worldliness than history records. Wenceslas was one of the main reasons for the eventually fatal discord between Drahomíra and Ludmila. Ludmila had exerted great influence of the eldest son, Wenceslas, leaving Drahomíra to concentrate her efforts on her younger son, Boleslaus.
  
  Despite or perhaps as a result of her political and personal efforts, Ludmila attracted Drahomíra's bitter enmity. Ludmila fled [1] to Tetín castle, where her daughter-in-law's hired assassins, Tunna and Gommon, murdered her.
  
  When Drahomíra's son Wenceslas, came to power, he sent his mother into exile, though he later called her back.
  In culture
  
  She is the subject of two operas, Drahomíra by František Škroup (1848), and Drahomíra by Karel Šebor (1867).

• (naam) .Source 3

  The Hevelli or Hevellians (sometimes Havolane; German: Heveller or Stodoranen; Polish: Hawelanie or Stodoranie; Czech: Havolané or Stodorané) were a tribe of the Polabian Slavs, who settled around the middle Havel river in the present-day Havelland region of Brandenburg in eastern Germany from the 8th century onwards.
  
  West Slavic tribes ("Wends") had settled in the Germania Slavica region from the 7th century onwards. The Hehfeldi as they were called by the Bavarian Geographer about 850 built their main fortification at Brenna (later to become Brandenburg an der Havel) and a large eastern outpost at the current site of Spandau. In 906 the Hevelli princess Drahomíra married the Premyslid duke Vratislaus I of Bohemia.
  
  Brenna was occupied by the German king Henry the Fowler in his 928/29 Slavic campaign and incorporated into the Marca Geronis. Henry's successor Otto I in 948 established the Bishopric of Brandenburg in order to Christianize the pagan population. These efforts were aborted in the course of the 983 Great Slav Rising in the Northern March, which again defied German control over the region. Together with the neighbouring Sprevane in the east, the Hevelli waged war against not only the German Saxon forces to the west, but also other Slavic tribes.
  
  The baptized Hevelli prince Pribislav (died 1150) finally bequested his lands to the Ascanian count Albert the Bear. Albert until 1157 could re-conquer the territory of the former Northern March, whereafter he established the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The Slavic Hevelli were gradually assimilated by German settlers in the course of the Ostsiedlung.

• She died in the year 953, she was 53 years old.
• This information was last updated on November 7, 2012.

Household of Drahomira van Stodor

She is married to Vratislav I van Bohemen.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Pribislava van Bohemen  
2. Spytihnev van Bohemen  
3. Wenceslaus I "de Heilige" van Bohemen  
4. Boleslaw I "de Verschrikkelijke" van Bohemen  910-972 

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