Přemyslid dynasty | |
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Country |
Duchy of Bohemia
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Founded | 867 |
Founder | Borivoj I |
Final ruler | Wenceslaus III of Bohemia |
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Ethnicity | Czech |
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Duchy of Bohemia
Kingdom of Bohemia
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The House of Přemyslid or Přemyslid dynasty (Czech: Přemyslovci, German: Premysliden, Polish: Przemyślidzi) were a Czech royal dynasty which reigned in Duchy of Bohemia and later Kingdom of Bohemia and Margraviate of Moravia (9th century–1306), parts of Hungary, Silesia, Austria and Poland.
The dynasty's beginnings date back to the 9th century when Přemyslids ruled a tiny territory around Prague, populated by the Czech tribe of the Western Slavs. Gradually they expanded, conquering the region of Bohemia, located in the Bohemian basin where it was not threatened by the expansion of the Frankish Empire. The first historically-documented Premyslid Duke was Bořivoj I (867). In the following century, Přemyslids also ruled over Silesia and founded the city of Wroclaw (German: Breslau), derived from the name of a Bohemian duke Vratislaus I, father of Saint Wenceslaus. Under the reign of Prince Boleslaus I the Cruel (935) and his son Boleslaus II the Pious (972), the Přemyslids ruled territory stretching to today's Belarus.