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Birth:          ABT  930 of Praha, Bohemia
Death:          1005 Melnik, Bohemia

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_of_M%C4%9Bln%C3%ADk
Emma (Hemma) (bef. 950 – 1005/06) was a Bohemian duchess consort as the second 
wife of Boleslaus II of Bohemia.

Her origins are uncertain. Historian Gelasius Dobner (1719–90) thought she was a 
princess of Burgundy, and this theory has been recently respected. However the latest 
research of historians and numismatics indicate that she was of Italian-Burgundian 
origin and identified with Queen Emma of France (Emma of Italy), widow of King 
Lothair of France (d. 986). She became the second wife of Boleslaus II about the year 
989 and died either in 1005 or 1006. It was traditionally supposed by Czech historians 
that Emma was the mother of Boleslaus' younger sons Oldrich and Jaromír and that 
the mother of the oldest son, Boleslaus III of Bohemia, was Adiva, the first wife of 
Boleslaus II.

Afraid of Boleslaus III, Emma chose to go into exile at the court of Bavaria in 1001 
together with Oldrich and Jaromír. The brothers sought military backing from the 
German King Henry II. This action definitively placed Bohemia within the jurisdiction of 
the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1004, Jaromír occupied Prague with a German army and made himself Duke. Emma 
came back to Bohemia, maybe living in town Melník, where she died.

The proof of the existence of Duchess Emma are denars (coins) with the inscription 
ENMA REGINA ("Queen Emma", not duchess).


Marriage To ____ Boleslaw (Boleslav) II "the Pious" (ABT  935 - 7 Feb  999)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Boleslaw (Boleslav) I "the Cruel" (ABT  915 - 15 Jul  972)
OF STOCKOW Biagota (ABT  901 - )

Children by ____ Boleslaw (Boleslav) II "the Pious" ABT  935 - 7 Feb  999
____ Udalrich (Oldrich) (ABT  975 - 9 Nov 1034)

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