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Personal data Břetislav van Bohemen 

• Title: Hertog, van Bohemen
• He died on January 10, 1055.
• A child of Oldrich van Bohemen and Bozena Nn

Household of Břetislav van Bohemen

He is married to Judith van Schweinfurt.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Vratislav II van Bohemen  ????-1093 

Notes about Břetislav van Bohemen

BŘETISLAV of Bohemia, illegitimate son of OLDRICH Duke of the Bohemians & his mistress Bozena --- (-Chrudim 10 Jan 1055, bur Prague St Veit[84]). The Chronica Boemorum names "Braziclau" as son of "Oudalricus" and his mistress Bozena[85]. The Annalista Saxo records "Bracilaus, Boemie ducis Odolrici filius" kidnapping "Iudhitam, sororem Ottonis de Suinvorde" from the monastery of St Peter and St Paul "super montem Hasunkun"[86]. Duke of Moravia 1025-1031. He succeeded in 1034 as BŘETISLAV Duke of the Bohemians. The necrology of Regensburg St Emmeran records the death "IV Id Jan" of "Brazislaus dux"[87]. The Cronica Principum Regni Boemiæ records the death in 1055 of "Bretislaus…filius Odalrici"[88].

m (Olmütz after 1021) as her first husband, JUDITH von Schweinfurt, daughter of HEINRICH von Schweinfurt Markgraf auf dem Nordgau & his wife Gerberga von Gleisberg ([1010/15]-2 Aug 1058, bur [1061 or after] Prague St Veit). The Annalista Saxo names "Iudhitam, sororem Ottonis de Suinvorde, filiam…marchionis Heinrici" when recording that she was kidnapped by her future husband from the monastery of St Peter and St Paul "super montem Hasunkun"[89]. In a later passage, her death is recorded "IV Non Aug" as well as her later burial in Prague by her son Vratislav. The same source also specifies that she had been expelled from Bohemia by her son Duke Spytihnĕv and married "Petri regi Ungariorum" to spite him[90]. The Chronica Boemorum records the death "1058 IV Non Aug" of "Iudita coniunx Bracizlavi, ductrix Boemorum", specifying that she had been expelled from Bohemia by her son "Spitigneus", that to spite her son she had married "Petro regi Ungarorum", and that her son Wratizlas had brought back her body to be buried next to her husband in Prague[91]. She married secondly (after Jan 1055) [as his second wife,] Péter ex-King of Hungary.

Duke Břetislav & his wife had five children:
SPYTIHNĔV (1031-28 Jan 1061)
VRATISLAV ([1032]-14 Jan 1093)
KONRAD (-6 Sep 1093).
JAROMIR GEBHARD (-Gran, Hungary 26 Jun 1090)
OTTO of Bohemia (-9 Jul [1086 or 1087], bur Graditz).

Bronnen:

[84] Annalista Saxo 1058 specifies that his wife was buried next to Duke Břetislav.

[85] Cosmæ Pragensis Chronica Boemorum I.34, MGH SS IX, p. 56.

[86] Annalista Saxo 1021.

[87] Necrologium Monasterii S Emmerammi Ratisbonensis, Regensburg Necrologies, p. 301.

[88] Cronica Principum Regni Boemiæ, Scriptores Rerum Bohemicarum, Tomus II, p. 428.

[89] Annalista Saxo 1021.

[90] Annalista Saxo 1058.

[91] Cosmæ Pragensis Chronica Boemorum II.17, MGH SS IX, p. 78.

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