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Birth:          ABT  881 of Praha, Bohemia
Death:           937 

Notes
a pagan who massacred Christians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drahom%C3%ADra
Drahomíra of Stodor (Czech: Drahomíra ze Stodor; c.?877 or 890 – died after 934 or 
936) was Duchess consort of Bohemia from 915 to 921, wife of the Premyslid duke 
Vratislaus I. She also acted as regent of the Duchy of Bohemia from 921 to 924 during 
the minority of her son Wenceslaus. She is chiefly known for the murder of her 
mother-in-law Ludmila of Bohemia by hired assassins. Her name pronounced as 
"druh-haw-mee-ruh".
Life[edit]

Drahomíra was born in the present-day Havelland region centered around the fortress 
of Brandenburg (Brennabor), the daughter of a Hevelli (Stodoran) prince. According to 
Cosmas of Prague, she married Duke Vratislav I of Bohemia about 906. Drahomíra 
gave birth to at least six children: her sons were Wenceslaus and Boleslaus, who both 
succeeded their father as Bohemian dukes. Among her four daughters were one 
Pribislava, who became a nun at the Prague St. George's Convent, and possibly 
Strezislava, the wife of the Bohemian nobleman Slavník, founder of the Slavník 
dynasty.[1] The marriage led the Premyslid dynasty to cooperation with the Polabian 
Slavs and brought Bohemia in conflict with the Saxon duke Henry the Fowler, who 
became German 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 Duke Borivoj I, who took over the 
religious education of her sons. Popular history depicts Ludmila as a restrained and 
pious grandmother, but it is likely that the political demands of government called for 
more energy and worldliness than history records.

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 of 
Bavarian missionaries, educated Wenceslaus to become a monk rather than a prince. 
Moreover, the two women may have disagreed whether to recognise the East Frankish 
supremacy of Henry the Fowler. Ludmila fled from Prague [2] to Tetín Castle on the 
road to Regensburg, where on 16 September 921 Drahomíra's henchmen, Tunna and 
Gommon, attacked and strangled her.

The next year the troops of Duke Arnulf 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 (in 929 or 935) she fled from the court.

In culture[edit]

She is the subject of two operas, Drahomíra by František Škroup (1848), and 
Drahomíra by Karel Šebor (1867

Parents
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Siblings
ZE STODOR Drahomaira (Drahomir) (ABT  881 -  937)

Marriage To ____ Wratislaw (Vratislav) I (ABT  877 - 13 Feb  921)
    m. ABT  906 

Notes

Parents
____ Boriwoi (Borijov) I (ABT  842 -  894)
ZE PSOVA Ludmilla (Lidmila) "the Saint" (ABT  853 - 15 Sep  921)

Children by ____ Wratislaw (Vratislav) I ABT  877 - 13 Feb  921
____ Boleslaw (Boleslav) I "the Cruel" (ABT  915 - 15 Jul  972)

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