Jeanne DE ST. POL

Jeanne married Antoine Duke Of BRABANT on 21 Feb 1402 in Arras. Antoine (son of Philip II Duke Of BURGUNDY and Margaret Of FLANDERS) was born in Aug 1384; died on 25 Oct 1415 in Battle of Agincourt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John IV Duke Of BRABANT was born in 1403; died in 1427.
2. Philip Of ST. POL was born in 1404; died in 1430.

Notes:

Wenceslaus succeeded his father in both roles: Charles IV had been elected Holy Roman King and, in the course of things, crowned Holy Roman Emperor under the auspices of Avignon Pope Innocent VI; however, Wenceslaus never received the imperial coronation, but was deposed; the Bohemian title came to Wenceslaus by inheritance as Charles's son.

Accusing Wenceslaus of devoting far more attention to his Bohemian than to his German duties, and of weakness in agreeing with Charles VI of France to end their support of rival Popes, the princes of the German states deposed him as King in August 1400 in favour of Rupert III, Count palatine of the Rhine, though Wenceslaus refused to acknowledge this successor's decade-long reign.

As King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia, until his death in 1419, he came into repeated conflict with the Bohemian nobility, and sought to protect the religious reformer Jan Hus and his followers against the demands of the Roman Catholic Church for their suppression as heretics. This caused many Germans to leave the University of Prague, and set up their own University at Leipzig. Hus was executed in Konstanz in 1415, and the rest of Wenceslaus's reign in Bohemia featured precursors of the Hussite Wars that would follow his death.

He was the one who had "Saint" John of Nepomuk(Actually named Jan z Pomuka - John of Pomuk) tortured and put to death, allegedly because he was not willing to reveal the confessional secrets learned from king's wife Sofia of Bavaria as the popular Roman Catholic legend goes. In reality John of Pomuk was an notary in the consistory of Archbishop of Prague John of Jen?tejn, and was killed as a result of the property dispute and long personality conflict between the king and the fanatical archbishop.

Wenceslaus married Johanna Of BAVARIA on 29 Sep 1370. Johanna (daughter of Count of Hainaut Albert I Duke Of BAVARIA and Margaret Of BRIEG) was born between 1356 and 1361; died on 31 Dec 1386 in Karlstein. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]