Biography of King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland 1271-1305

Paternal Family Tree: Bohemia

On 25th October 1251 [his father] Ottokar "Iron King" II King Bohemia (age 18) and [his mother] Kunigunda Rostislavna Přemyslovna (age 6) were married.

On 11th February 1252 [his father] Ottokar "Iron King" II King Bohemia (age 19) and Margarete von Babenberg (age 48) were married. The difference in their ages was 29 years; she, unusually, being older than him.

On 17th September 1271 King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland was born to [his father] Ottokar "Iron King" II King Bohemia (age 38) and [his mother] Kunigunda Rostislavna Přemyslovna (age 26).

On 26th August 1278 [his father] Ottokar "Iron King" II King Bohemia (age 45) died. His son Wenceslaus (age 6) succeeded II King Bohemia.

On 24th January 1285 King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (age 13) and Queen Judith of Bohemia and Poland (age 13) were married. She the daughter of Rudolph I King Romans (age 66) and Gertrude Hohenburg. He the son of Ottokar "Iron King" II King Bohemia and Kunigunda Rostislavna Přemyslovna (age 40).

On 9th September 1285 [his mother] Kunigunda Rostislavna Přemyslovna (age 40) died.

In 1289 [his brother-in-law] Rudolf Habsburg II Duke Austria (age 19) and [his sister] Agnes Přemyslid Duchess Austria (age 19) were married. She by marriage Duchess Austria. She the daughter of [his father] Ottokar "Iron King" II King Bohemia and [his mother] Kunigunda Rostislavna Přemyslovna. He the son of [his father-in-law] Rudolph I King Romans (age 70) and Gertrude Hohenburg.

On 6th October 1289 [his son] King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland was born to King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (age 18) and [his wife] Queen Judith of Bohemia and Poland (age 18).

On 15th July 1291 [his father-in-law] Rudolph I King Romans (age 73) died at Speyer. He was buried at Speyer Cathedral. His son [his brother-in-law] Albert (age 36) succeeded I Duke Austria.

Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke

Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.

Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback format.

On 20th January 1292 [his daughter] Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia was born to King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (age 20) and [his wife] Queen Judith of Bohemia and Poland (age 20). She married before 8th July 1313 King John I of Bohemia, son of Henry Luxemburg VII Holy Roman Emperor and Margaret Brabant Countess Luxemburg and Namur, and had issue.

On 17th May 1296 [his sister] Agnes Přemyslid Duchess Austria (age 26) died.

On 18th June 1297 [his wife] Queen Judith of Bohemia and Poland (age 26) died at Prague.

On 21st June 1305 King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (age 33) died.