Kunigunda, Queen Consort of Bohemia
| Kunigunda Rostislavna | |
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| Queen consort of Bohemia | |
| Tenure | 1261–1278 |
| Coronation | 1261 |
| Born | 1245 ? |
| Died | 9 September 1285 (aged 39–40) Prague |
| Burial | Prague |
| Spouse |
Ottokar II of Bohemia Záviš, Lord of Falkenštejn |
| Issue |
Wenceslaus II of Bohemia Kunigunde of Bohemia Agnes, Duchess of Austria |
| House |
Rurik Dynasty (by birth) House of Přemyslid (by first marriage) |
| Father | Rostislav Mikhailovich |
| Mother | Anna of Hungary |
Kunigunda Rostislavna (1245 – 9 September 1285; Czech: Kunhuta Uherská or Kunhuta Haličská) was Queen consort of Bohemia and its Regent from 1278 until her death. She was a member of the House of Chernigov, and a daughter of Rostislav Mikhailovich.
She was presumably born in Ruthenia, in the domains of her paternal grandfather Michael of Chernigov. Her grandfather was the last Grand Prince of Kiev, who was deposed not by a more powerful prince but by the Mongol Empire. Her parents were Rostislav Mikhailovich, future ruler of Belgrade and Slavonia, and his wife Anna of Hungary. After the death of her father's father, Kunigunda's family relocated to Hungary, where her mother's father, Béla IV of Hungary, made her father governor of certain Serbian-speaking regions in the Danube Valley. Her father proclaimed himself Emperor of Bulgaria in 1256 but did not stay there to defend his title.
Kunigunda was married – as a token of alliance from her maternal grandfather Béla – to King Ottokar II of Bohemia (ca. 1233 – 1278) in Pressburg (now Bratislava) on 25 October 1261. Ottokar was a member of the Přemyslid dynasty who had been recently divorced from Margaret, Duchess of Austria (ca. 1204 – 1266) because she had been unable to provide heirs for the King.
Kunigunda, 41 years Margaret's junior, bore Ottokar several children including:
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