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Personal data Meklan van Bohemen 

• He was born in the year 800.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Meklan (800 - 873) was een mythische hertog van Bohemen. In sommige bronnen wordt hij Neklan genoemd.
  
  Hij wordt beschreven in de Chronica Boemorum (Kroniek van Bohemen) geschreven door Cosmas van Praag. Hoewel dit boek geen historisch betrouwbare informatie levert, wordt het toch gezien als standaardwerk van de Boheemse middeleeuwse geschiedenis.
  
  Het verhaal gaat dat Meklan zeer vredelievend was. Toen Vlastislav het kasteel van Meklan belegerde probeerde Meklan vrede te sluiten. Tyr, zijn Viking-adviseur, leende het schild van Meklan (zoals Patroklos het schild van Achilles leende). Hoewel Tyr stierf wonnen de Bohemers de oorlog en stierf Vlastislav. Meklan kon nog voor vele jaren regeren totdat zijn zoon Hostivit de regering overnam.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Neklan was the sixth of the seven Bohemian mythical princes between the (also mythical) founder of the Premyslid dynasty Premysl the Ploughman and the first historical prince Borivoj. The names of the princes were first recorded in Cosmas chronicle and then transmitted into the most of historical books of the 19th century including František Palacký's The History of the Czech Nation in Bohemia and Moravia. According to So-called Dalimil Neklan had two sons, Hostivít and Depolt.[1]
  
  One theory about the number of the princes is propped on the frescoes on the walls of the Rotunda in Znojmo, Moravia but Anežka Merhautová claimed that the frescoes depict all the members of the Premyslid dynasty including the Moravian junior princes.[2]
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  Origin of the name
  
  Neklan's name is thought to be derived from the Slavonic word "klát" meaning to tilt and prefix ne- (non) so it describes him to be a peaceful ruler. Záviš Kalandra thought the names of the seven princes were cryptical names of ancient Slavonic days of the week - Vojen being the sixth - Friday with just a confusing evidence.[3] Another theory says that the names were mistaken from a coherent and partly interrupted old Slavonic text.[4]
  Legend in Cosmas Chronicle
  
  Once Vlastislav, the prince of Lucans (with their centre in Žatec on the river Ohre), started war against Neklan and besieged his castle, Levý Hradec. Neklan didn't want the war in his country so he wanted to make peace with Vlastislav. However, his guide and second most powerful man in the Bohemian camps, a warrior called Tyr, persuaded him to lend him his armour. So Tyr went to war in place of Neklan, like Patroclus once in place of Achilles. He stroke a fierce battle of Tursko and although he died, Bohemians won and Lucans were killed to a man (literally, one man escaped the field having followed a witch's instructions

• He died in the year 873, he was 73 years old.
• A child of Kresomysl van Bohemen and Libuse
• This information was last updated on November 7, 2012.

Household of Meklan van Bohemen

He is married to Ponislava.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Hostivit van Bohemen  820-870 

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