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Personal data Božena 

  • (Levens event) .Source 1
    Božena (Kresinová) (died after 1052) was the second wife (and probably earlier the mistress) of Duke Oldrich of Bohemia and mother of Bretislaus I of Bohemia.
    Meeting of Oldrich and Božena

    The historian Cosmas of Prague recorded the legend of Oldrich and Božena, in his Chronica Boëmorum ("Chronicle of the Bohemians"). According to the legend, the young (and married) Oldrich set out on a hunt and travelled to Peruc. There, he spied a beautiful peasant girl, Božena, by a well known today as Božena's Spring[1] and was immediately entranced by her.

    Oldrich abandoned his hunt and took Božena back to Prague, where she eventually gave birth to his illegitimate son Bretislaus. In the legend, Oldrich's first meeting with Božena took place in sight of the Oldrich Oak.

    Božena was indeed the savior of the Czech House of Premysl. Oldrich had two brothers, but one of them, Jaromír, was castrated by the eldest sibling, Boleslaus III. Boleslaus himself was imprisoned in Poland, possibly having only a daughter. Thus Oldrich was the one Premyslid able to have a son and heir. His first wife is thought to have borne no children.

    Božena's low birth is alluded to in the chronicle of Cosmas, which states that Oldrich first met her "riding through the village". The illegitimate birth of her son Bretislaus to a low-born mother is believed to have made it necessary for him to resort to abduction when he later sought to marry a noble bride (Judith of Schweinfurt). At any rate, she was held to be a peasant woman already by the author of the early 14th-century Chronicle of Dalimil.
  • She died after 1052.
  • This information was last updated on April 5, 2013.

Household of Božena

She is married to Oldrich van Bohemen.

They got marriedSource 2


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Božena

Božena
????-> 1052


Oldrich van Bohemen
975-1034

Bretislav I van Bohemen
1005-1055

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Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%BEena_(K%C5%99esinov%C3%A1)
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