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Drahomíra of Stodor (Czech:Drahomíra ze Stodor;c. 877 or 890 – died after 934 or 936) wasDuchess consort of Bohemia from 915 to 921, wife of thePřemyslid dukeVratislaus I.[1][2] She also acted asregent of theDuchy of Bohemia from 921 to 924 during the minority of her sonWenceslaus.[3][2] She is chiefly known for the murder of her mother-in-lawLudmila of Bohemia by hired assassins.
Drahomíra | |
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| Duchess consort of Bohemia | |
 Drahomíra hiring the assassins of Saint Ludmila,Chronicle of Dalimil,c. 1330 | |
| Reign | 915–921 |
| Born | c. 877 or 890 |
| Died | after 934 or 936 |
| Spouse(s) | Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia |
| Issue | Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia Střezislava (?) |
| Father | Boleslaw Hevelli Stodoransky - prince ofHevelli |
Life
editDrahomíra was born in the present-dayHavelland region centered around the fortress ofBrandenburg (Brennabor), the daughter of aHevelli (Stodoran) prince.[2] According toCosmas of Prague, she marriedDuke Vratislaus I of Bohemia about 906. Drahomíra gave birth to at least six children: her sons wereWenceslaus andBoleslaus, who both succeeded their father as Bohemian dukes.[2] Among her four daughters was one Přibislava, whose considered to have married to a Croatian prince,[4] who became a nun at theSt. George's Convent in Prague, and possiblyStřezislava, the wife of the Bohemian-Croatian noblemanSlavník, founder of theSlavník dynasty.[5] The marriage led the Přemyslid dynasty to cooperation with thePolabian Slavs and brought Bohemia in conflict with theSaxon dukeHenry the Fowler, who becameGerman king in 919 and later waged war against the Hevelli tribes.
After her husband's untimely death in 921, the Bohemian nobles designated Drahomíra regent for her minor son Wenceslaus. However, she had to divide the government of Bohemia with her mother-in-law Ludmila, widow of DukeBořivoj I, who took over the religious education of her sons. Popular history depicts Ludmila as a restrained and pious grandmother.
Wenceslaus was one of the main reasons for the eventually fatal discord between Drahomíra and Ludmila, who had exerted great influence over Drahomíra's eldest son, leaving Drahomíra to concentrate her efforts on her younger son, Boleslaus. Despite or perhaps as a result of her political and personal efforts, Ludmila attracted Drahomíra's bitter enmity. She alleged that her mother-in-law, with the help ofBavarian missionaries, educated Wenceslaus to become a monk rather than a prince. Moreover, the two women may have disagreed whether to recognise theEast Frankish supremacy of Henry the Fowler. Ludmila fled from Prague[6] toTetín Castle on the road toRegensburg, where on 16 September 921 Drahomíra's henchmen, Tunna and Gommon, attacked and strangled her.
The next year the troops of DukeArnulf of Bavaria raided the Bohemian duchy. When Drahomíra's son Wenceslaus came of age about 922, he sent his mother into exile, though he called her back in 925. She spent her later years in Prague; however, upon the murder of her son she fled from the court to theCroats. While some considered that the Croats lived near Prague,[4][7] others noted that in the case of noble and royal fugitives tried to find security as distant as possible, indicating these Croats probably were located more to the East around Vistula valley.[8]
In popular culture
editShe is the subject of two operas,Drahomíra byFrantišek Škroup (1848), andDrahomíra byKarel Šebor (1867).
References
edit- ^Rosik, Stanisław (2020-03-23).The Slavic Religion in the Light of 11th- and 12th-Century German Chronicles (Thietmar of Merseburg, Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau): Studies on the Christian Interpretation of pre-Christian Cults and Beliefs in the Middle Ages. BRILL.ISBN 978-90-04-33148-8.
- ^abcdFawn, Rick; Hochman, Jiri (2009-11-19).Historical Dictionary of the Czech State. Scarecrow Press.ISBN 978-0-8108-7074-1.
- ^Puett, J. David (October 2021)."Saint Agnes of Bohemia: A Thirteenth-Century Iconoclast and the Enduring Legacy of Her Convent as a Sacred Space for Religious Art".Religions.12 (10): 826.doi:10.3390/rel12100826.ISSN 2077-1444.
- ^abKantor, Marvin (1983).Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Princes. University of Michigan, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. pp. 150, 157, 160.ISBN 978-0-930042-44-8.
- ^Loserth, Johann (2008). "Propast hrvatske kneževske obitelji Slavnikovića" [The collapse of Croatian princely family Slavniković]. In Nosić, Milan (ed.).Bijeli Hrvati II [White Croats II] (in Croatian). Maveda. pp. 168–169.ISBN 978-953-7029-12-8.
- ^"VITEJTE.CZ : Obec TetĂn, The Village of TetĂn, Gemeinde TetĂn".www.vitejte.cz. Archived fromthe original on 1 August 2007. Retrieved27 January 2022.
- ^Kalhous, David (2012).Anatomy of a Duchy: The Political and Ecclesiastical Structures of Early P?emyslid Bohemia. BRILL. p. 75.ISBN 978-90-04-22980-8.
- ^Łowmiański, Henryk (2004) [1985]. Nosić, Milan (ed.).Hrvatska pradomovina (Chorwacja Nadwiślańska in Początki Polski) [Croatian ancient homeland] (in Croatian). Translated by Kryżan-Stanojević, Barbara. Maveda. pp. 68–71.OCLC 831099194.
Bibliography
edit- Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis; Line 244–7
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| Preceded by | Duchess consort of Bohemia ca. 915–921 | Succeeded by |