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Birth:          ABT 1058 of Praha, Bohemia
Death:          25 Dec 1086 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_of_Bohemia
Judith of Bohemia (c. 1056/58 – 25 December 1086), also known as Judith Premyslid, 
was a Bohemian princess of the Premyslid dynasty, and Duchess of Poland by 
marriage.

She was a daughter of Duke Vratislaus II of Bohemia by his second wife Adelaide, 
daughter of King Andrew I of Hungary.[1][2] She was named after her paternal 
grandmother Judith of Schweinfurt, who died shortly after her birth.
Life[edit]

Family[edit]

Judith was the second of four children born from Vratislaus II's marriage with the 
Hungarian princess Adelaide. The others were Bretislaus II, Ludmila (later a nun) and 
Vratislaus, who died young in battle. Judith's uncle Duke Spytihnev II died in 1061 
and was succeeded by his brother Vratislaus II. One year later, in 1062, Duchess 
Adelaide died.

Duke Vratislaus II remarried in 1063 to Swietoslawa, daughter of Duke Casimir I of 
Poland. From this marriage, Judith gained five half-siblings: Boleslav (Duke of 
Olomouc, who died shortly before his father), Borivoj II, Vladislav I, Sobeslav I Oldrich 
and Judith, later wife of Wiprecht II of Groitzsch, Burgrave of Magdeburg.

Marriage[edit]

Around 1080, Judith married Wladyslaw I Herman, Duke of Poland (nephew of her 
stepmother), to solidify the recently established Bohemian-Polish alliance.

According to contemporary chroniclers, Duchess Judith performed remarkable charity 
work, helping the needy and ensuring the comfort of subjects and prisoners. After 
almost five years of childless marriage, the necessity for an heir increased:
Because she was barren pray to God every day with tears and orations, made 
sacrifices and paying debts, helping widows and orphans, and given very generous 
amounts of gold and silver for the monasteries, commanded the priests to pray to the 
saints and the grace of God for a child.
On 10 June 1085, Judith and her husband were present at the coronation of her father 
Duke Vratislaus II as the first King of Bohemia. One year later, on 20 August 1086, 
she gave birth to the long-awaited son and heir, the future Duke Boleslaw III 
Wrymouth. Sadly, the duchess never recovered from the effects of childbirth and died 
four months later, on 25 December. She was buried in Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin 
Mary of Masovia in Plock.

Three years later, in 1089, her husband was remarried to the widow of Judith's uncle 
King Solomon of Hungary, Judith of Swabia, who was renamed Sophia in Poland in 
order to distinguish herself from Wladyslaw I's first wife.


Parents
____ Wratislaw (Vratislav) II (ABT 1035 - 14 Jan 1092)
____ Adelaide (Adelaida) (ABT 1040 - 27 Jan 1062)

Siblings
OF BOHEMIA Judith (Judita) I (ABT 1058 - 25 Dec 1086)

Marriage To HERMAN Wladislaw (Ladislas) I (ABT 1043 - 4 Jun 1102)
    m. 1080 Plotsk

Notes

Parents
KAROL Kazimerz (Casimir) I "the Restorer" "The Great" (25 Jul 1018 - 28 Nov 1058)
VLADIMIROVNA OF KIEV Debronega Marie (Dobronegra Mariya) (ABT 1011 - 1087)

Children by HERMAN Wladislaw (Ladislas) I ABT 1043 - 4 Jun 1102
____ Boleslaw III "Crooked Mouth" (20 Aug 1085 - 28 Oct 1138)

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