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Many members of the Czech nobility participated in the creation of the National Museum in Prague (founded in 1818) From the 17th century, only the Catholic Czech nobility significantly participated in the functioning of the Habsburg Monarchy. Newly arrived families gradually identified with the Czech lands and often also with the Czech language.
The Czech language (called the Bohemian language in English usage until the 19th century) [10] was the main language of the Diet and the nobility until 1627 (after the Bohemian Revolt was suppressed). German was then formally made equal with Czech and eventually prevailed as the language of the Diet until the Czech National Revival in
The Czech leaders, subsequently labeled Old Czechs, favored alliance with the conservative and largely Germanized Bohemian nobility and advocated the restoration of traditional Bohemian autonomy. In essence, they wanted a reconstituted Bohemian Kingdom (including Moravia and Silesia ) with a constitutional arrangement similar to Hungary's.
The Duke of Bavaria, Charles Albert, was proclaimed king by the Czech nobility. Although Maria-Theresa regained most of the Bohemian Kingdom and was crowned queen in Prague in 1743, all of the highly industrialized territory of Silesia except for Tesin , Opava , and Krnov was ceded to Prussia in the 1742 Treaty of Breslau .
Owners of land or property formed the nobility, historically divided into higher nobility (lords) and lower. Since the demise of the 12th century records, [clarification needed] the Czech aristocracy was part of the chivalric culture flourishing in Western Europe, which had been introduced to the Czech lands through neighbouring German regions ...
German Bohemians (German: Deutschböhmen und Deutschmährer [ˈdɔʏtʃˌbøːmən] ⓘ; Czech: čeští Němci a moravští Němci, lit. 'German Bohemians and German Moravians'), later known as Sudeten Germans (German: Sudetendeutsche [zuˈdeːtn̩ˌdɔʏtʃə] ⓘ; Czech: sudetští Němci), were ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral ...
The Schwarzenbergs are members of the German and Czech nobility, and they once held the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire. The family belongs to the high nobility and traces its roots to the Lords of Seinsheim during the Middle Ages. [1] The secundogeniture branch of the Schwarzenbergs was among the foremost Czech patriotic houses.
Nobility from Prague (28 P) M. Margraves of Moravia (6 P) ... Pages in category "Czech nobility" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.