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Bohemia
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Wenceslas IV of
Luxemburg |
*26.02.1361 - † 06.08.1419 King of Bohemia 15.06.1363 |
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In the time
of Wenceslas IV, a coat of arms for governance, crowned with a royal crown
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Crowned arms on his counterseal [1] |
Crowned arms in the Chronicle of Ulrich
Richental fol.137 |
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The Hussites |
1419-1436 |
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Sigismund of
Luxemburg |
*14.02.1368 - † 09.12.1437 Margrave of
Brandenburg 1379 - 1388 King of Hungary 1385 Crowned 31.03.1387 Imperial vicar 1400
& 1402 Roman King
20.09.1410 Re-elected
21.07.1411 Margrave of Brandenburg 1411 - 1417 Titulairy King of
Bohemia 1419 Duke ofLuxemburg
1419 King of Lombardia
1431 Roman Emperor 1433 King of Bohemia 1436 |
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Sigismund
was a titulary King van Bohemia after the death of his brother Wenceslas in
1419 but he could not effectuate his claim because of the opposition and
revolt of the Hussites until 1436. He was in fact but only one year King of
Bohemia. Nevertheless he bore, as a
son of Charles IV, the arms of Bohemia which can be considered as his family
arms as he tried to be a king of Bohemia by right of his father and brother.
After his marriage with Mary of Hungary in 1385 he also bore the arms of
Arpad as a family arms even when he was not related at all with the Anjous
who bore these arms by right of Charles Martel. The impaled of Arpad-Bohemia
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House of Habsburg |
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Albrecht II Habsburg |
*1397 - † 1439 Duke of Austria 1404 King van Rome 1438 King of Hungary 1438 King of Bohemia 1438 |
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King Arms: De gu. au lion d’arg. queue fourchée en sautoir arm., lamp. et cour. d’or. L.: beemen (Bergshammer 28) |
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Ladislas Posthumus |
* 22.02.1440-†23.11.1457 King van Hungary 1446/’52-1457 King van Bohemia 28.X.1453-1457 |
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Frederick van Habsburg Janos Hunyadi Ulrich van Cilli |
Regent 1440-1452 Regent 1446-1453 Regent 1453-1456 |
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Johan Hunyadi, regent Ulrich van Cilli Regent 1453-1456 King of Bohemia
1453-1457 |
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House of Podiebrad |
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George |
1458-1471 |
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House of Hunyadi |
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Matthias Corvinus |
*23.02. 1440-† 06.04.1490 Count of Bistritsa 1453 Elected King of Hungary 24.01. 1458 King of Hungary 29.03.1464 King of Bohemia 03.05.1469-1478 ¥ Beatrix of Naples
1475 Titulary King of Bohemia 1478-1490 Duke of Austria 1485 Duke of Stiria,
Carinthia and Krain 1485-1469 |
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House of Jagiello |
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Vladislas II
Jagiello |
*1456-†1516 King of Bohemia 1471-1516 King of Hungary
1490-1516 |
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By
Albrecht Dürer, 1517 |
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Louis II |
1516-1526 Knight of the Fleece
nr. 145, Brussel 1516 |
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Painted glass, Stiftskirche Ansbach (Bavaria) |
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House of Habsburg |
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Ferdinand I |
1526-1564 |
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On a map of Silesia, 1561 |
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Maximilian II |
1564-1576 |
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From a book, 1550-‘73 in the National Library in
Vienna [2] |
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Rudolf II |
1576-1611 |
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From: Amman, Jost: Stamm und Wappenbuch. Frankfurt
a/Main, 1579 & 1589.
From:
Martin Schrot, Wappenbuch, 1581 With the legend: Beham, Ein weissen Löwen / mit der gulden Cron / im rothen Schilde / darob ein Beiſerliche guldene Cron . |
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Matthias |
1611-1619 |
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The Bohemian Revolt Without
heirs, Emperor Matthias sought to assure an orderly transition during his
lifetime by having his dynastic heir (the fiercely Catholic Ferdinand of Styriahttp://www.hubert-herald.nl/Cechy.htm, later Ferdinand II, Holy Roman
Emperor) elected to the separate royal thrones of Bohemia and
Hungary. Some of the Protestant leaders of Bohemia feared they would be
losing the religious rights granted to them by Emperor Rudolf II in his Letter
of Majesty (1609).
They preferred the Protestant Frederick V, elector of the Palatinate
(successor of Frederick IV, the creator of the Protestant
Union). However, other Protestants supported the stance taken by the
Catholics, and in 1617, Ferdinand was duly elected by the
Bohemian Estates to become the crown prince, and automatically upon
the death of Matthias, the next king of Bohemia. The
king-elect then sent two Catholic councillors (Vilem Slavata of Chlum and Jaroslav
Borzita of Martinice) as his representatives to Prague Castle in
Prague in May 1618. Ferdinand had wanted them to administer the government in
his absence. On 23 May 1618, an assembly of Protestants seized them and threw
them (and also secretary Philip Fabricius) out of the palace window, which
was some 21 m off the ground.
Although injured, they survived. This event, known as the (Second)
Defenestration of Prague, started the Bohemian Revolt. Soon afterward, the
Bohemian conflict spread through all of the Bohemian Crown,
including Bohemia, Silesia, Upper and Lower Lusatia,
and Moravia. Moravia was already embroiled in a conflict between
Catholics and Protestants. The religious conflict eventually spread across
the whole continent of Europe, involving France, Sweden, and a number of
other countries. The death
of Emperor Matthias emboldened the rebellious Protestant leaders, who had
been on the verge of a settlement. The weaknesses of both Ferdinand (now
officially on the throne after the death of Emperor Matthias) and of the
Bohemians themselves led to the spread of the war to western Germany.
Ferdinand was compelled to call on his nephew, King Philip IV of Spain,
for assistance. The
Bohemians, desperate for allies against the emperor, applied to be admitted
into the Protestant Union, which was led by their original candidate for the
Bohemian throne, the Calvinist Frederick V, Elector Palatine. The Bohemians
hinted Frederick would become King of Bohemia if he allowed them to join the
Union and come under its protection. However, similar offers were made by
other members of the Bohemian Estates to the Duke of Savoy, the Elector of
Saxony, and the Prince of Transylvania, Gabor Bethlen. The Austrians,
who seemed to have intercepted every letter leaving Prague, made these
duplicities public.This unraveled much of the support for the Bohemians,
particularly in the court of Saxony. In spite of these issues surrounding
their support, the rebellion initially favoured the Bohemians. They were
joined in the revolt by much of Upper Austria, whose nobility was then
chiefly Lutheran and Calvinist. Lower Austria revolted soon after, and in
1619, Count Thurn led an army to the walls of Vienna itself. Moreover, within
the British Isles, Frederick V's cause became seen as that of Elizabeth
Stuart, described by her supporters as "The Jewell of
Europe",leading to a stream of tens of thousands of volunteers to her
cause throughout the course of the Thirty Years' War. In the opening phase,
an Anglo-Dutch regiment under Horace Vere headed to the Palatinate, a
Scots-Dutch regiment under Colonel John Seton moved into Bohemia, and that
was joined by a mixed "Regiment of Brittanes" (Scots and English)
led by the Scottish Catholic Sir Andrew Gray.Seton's regiment was the last of
the Protestant allies to leave the Bohemian theatre after tenaciously holding
the town of Třeboň until 1622, and only departing once the rights
of the citizens had been secured. |
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House of Wittelsbach |
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Frederick V |
1619-1620 |
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House of Habsburg |
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Ferdinand II |
1620-1637 |
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Ferdinand III |
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Böhmische
Landesordnung, 1640 |
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1653-1654 |
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1656-1705 |
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Arms: Bohemia Crown: An electorscap recrowned with a royal crown Order: Of the Fleece Legend: LEOPOLDVS D.G. HVNGARIÆ BOHEMIÆ REX
HÆREDIARIVS ARCHIDVX AVSTRIÆ |
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1705-1711 |
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Charles VI |
*1685 - † 1740 King of Spain
1703-171w4 King of Bohemia
1711-1740 Emperor 12.10.1711 King of Napels 1714 Duke of Milan 1714 |
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Charles VII
Wittelsbach |
1697 - † 1745 Elector of Bavaria
1726 Emperor 1742 King of Bohemia
1742-1745 |
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Joseph II |
1780-1790 |
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Leopold II |
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Francis I (II) |
1792-1835 |
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1835-1848 |
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Francis-Joseph |
1848-1916 |
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After the
revolution of 1848, the Czech coat of arms was considered to be the Czech
national symbol. The national flag consisted of two equally sized stripes –
an upper white one and a lower red one. These were derived from the silver
double-tailed lion on a red field.
State administration of the Czech Kingdom, 1880 Crowned coat of arms with
garland In the upper right corner the date: 20 October 1860 Grant of the right
of historical self-government. 1.
Provincial Committee. Provincial High Marshal 2. District
delegation 3.
Committee of Municipalities
Czech national
emblem crested with the St. Wenceslas’ crown in the meeting hall of the
Chamber of Deputies of the Bohemian Kingdom from the 1860s.
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The
kingdom Abolished 1918 |
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Æ To: The
Bohemian Monarchy |
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