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He succeeded his uncleConrad I and worked for the destruction of the old Slavic culture. In 1097, he expelled the Slavonic monks of the monastery inSazava founded in 1033 by Procopius. Bretislaus also wished to end the elective principle of succession and replace it with a type of seniorate as conceptualised byBretislaus I: the eldest prince of the reigning family would holdBohemia as sovereign over the entire state while the younger scions of the dynasty would rule as territorial dukes over the regions ofMoravia. This was to the benefit of his half-brotherBořivoj II. He invested Bořivoj as duke ofBrno in 1097, thus removing the sons of Conrad I from the succession. Bretislaus also succeeded in receiving a long-desired imperial investiture at the Diet ofRegensburg on 19 April 1099. Bretislaus was assassinated by his adversaries at the hunting lodge ofZbecno in westernBohemia on 22 December 1100.
