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Anne of Bohemia (11 May 1366 – 7 June 1394), also known as Anne of Luxembourg, was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II.A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth of Pomerania. [1]
Judith was the youngest daughter of King Rudolf I of Germany and Gertrude of Hohenberg. [1] She was born in the Swabian town of Rheinfelden, where her father still resided as a count before he was elected king of Germany in 1273.
The Bohemian nobles had to choose between "either accepting Ferdinand as their king after all or taking the ultimate step of deposing him". [49] They decided on deposition, and, when others declined because of the risks involved, the Bohemians "pandered to the elector's royalist pretensions" and extended the invitation to Elizabeth's husband. [50]
She was the oldest child and only daughter of King Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (1456–1516) and his third wife Anne of Foix-Candale. [2] King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia was her younger brother.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Bogislaw V, Duke of Pomerania [1] and Elisabeth of Poland. Her maternal grandparents were Casimir III, King of Poland, and Aldona of Lithuania. Elizabeth married Charles on 25 May 1363 in Kraków, [2] only one year after the death of Charles's third wife, Anne of Schweidnitz. The bride was 16 years old, while the ...
Elizabeth of Bohemia (Czech: Eliška Přemyslovna) (20 January 1292 – 28 September 1330 [1]) was a princess of the Bohemian Přemyslid dynasty [2] who became Queen of Bohemia as the first wife of King John the Blind. [3] She was the mother of Emperor Charles IV, King of Bohemia, and a daughter of Judith of Habsburg, member of the House of ...
Agnes was the daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia, [2] making her a descendant of Ludmila of Bohemia and Wenceslaus I, patron saints of Bohemia.Agnes's mother was Constance of Hungary, who was the sister of King Andrew II of Hungary, so Agnes was a first cousin to Elizabeth of Hungary.
Elector Frederick V of the Electorate of the Palatinate, a Calvinist Protestant, was elected by the Bohemian nobility to replace Ferdinand on the Bohemian throne and was known as the Winter King. Frederick's wife, the popular Elizabeth Stuart and subsequently Elizabeth of Bohemia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen of Hearts, was the daughter ...