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Wenceslaus took some part in government during his father's lifetime, [2] and on Charles' death in 1378, he inherited the Crown of Bohemia and as king assumed the government of the Holy Roman Empire. In the cathedral of Monza there is preserved a series of reliefs depicting the coronations of the kings of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy ...
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361–1419); [5] later elected King of Germany (formally King of the Romans) and on his father's death, became King of Bohemia (as Wenceslaus IV) and Emperor-elect of the Holy Roman Empire; married firstly to Joanna of Bavaria in 1370 and secondly to Sophia of Bavaria in 1389.
The wars of King Sigismund against the Hussites (Chronica Hungarorum, 1488) Portrait of Emperor Sigismund, painted by Albrecht Dürer after the emperor's death. In 1419, the death of Wenceslaus IV left Sigismund titular King of Bohemia, but he had to wait for seventeen years before the Czech Estates would acknowledge him.
The Egerland (Chebsko) was ultimately obtained by King Wenceslaus II between 1291 and 1305; given in pawn to Bohemia by King Louis IV of Germany in 1322 and subsequently joined in personal union with Bohemia proper. In 1348 Charles IV created the Crown of Bohemia (Koruna česká), together with the incorporated provinces:
The League of Lords (Czech: Panská jednota) was an opposition group of feudal nobles dissatisfied with the rule of Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia. Lasting from 1394 to 1405, the goal of its members was to provide mutual support and gain co-government in the country.
The Wenceslas Bible [1] (German: Wenzelsbibel) or the Bible of Wenceslaus IV (Czech: Bible Václava IV.) is a multi-volume illuminated biblical manuscript written in the German language. The manuscript was commissioned by the King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (that time also the King of the Romans) and made in Prague in the 1390s.
King of Bohemia r. 1916–1918 also King of Hungary and Croatia and Emperor of Austria in pretence r. 1918–1922: Bohemia became part of the Republic of Czechoslovakia: Otto von Habsburg 1912–2011 [1] King of Bohemia in pretence r. 1922–2011: Regina of Saxe-Meiningen 1925–2010: Karl von Habsburg "Charles IV" b. 1961 King of Bohemia in ...
When King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia, brother of Sigismund, died of natural causes a few years later, the tension stemming from the Hussites grew stronger. In Prague and various other parts of Bohemia, the Catholic Germans living there were forced out.