King of Bohemia Wenceslaus King Of The ROMANS

1361 - 1419  (58 years)

• Name	Wenceslaus King Of The ROMANS  [1]
  Title	King of Bohemia
  Birth	26 Feb 1361  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Aug 1419  [1]
  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.
  Person ID	I47232	Main Tree

  
  

  Father	Charles IV Holy Roman EMPEROR,   b. 14 May 1316, Wenceslaus d. 29 Nov 1378 (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Anne Of SWIDNICA,   b. 1339   d. 1362 (Age 23 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Family ID	F17552	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Johanna Of BAVARIA,   b. Between 1356 and 1361   d. 31 Dec 1386, Karlstein (Age 30 years)
  Marriage	29 Sep 1370  [1]
  Children	1. Jeanne DE ST. POL   d. 1406  [Natural]
  Family ID	F17479	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S03581] Wikipedia Encyclopedia.