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Birth:          ABT  782 of Praha, Bohemia

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Libuše (help·info), Libussa,[1] Libushe or, historically Lubossa,[2] is a legendary 
ancestor of the Premyslid dynasty and the Czech people as a whole. According to 
legend, she was the youngest but wisest of three sisters, who became queen after 
their father died; she married a ploughman, Premysl, with whom she founded the 
Premyslid dynasty, and prophesied and founded the city of Prague in the 8th century.
Legend[edit]

Libuše is said to have been the youngest daughter of the equally mythical Czech ruler 
Krok. The legend goes that she was the wisest of the three sisters, and while her 
sister Kazi was a healer and Teta was a magician, she had the gift of seeing the 
future, and was chosen by her father as his successor, to judge over the people. 
According to legends she prophesied from her castle at Libušín, though later legends 
say it was Vyšehrad.

Legend says that Libuše came out on a rocky cliff high above the Vltava and 
prophesied: "I see a great city whose glory will touch the stars." On the site she 
ordered to build a castle and a town called Prague.[3]

Although she proved herself as a wise chieftain, the male part of the tribe was 
displeased that their ruler was a woman and demanded that she marry, but she had 
fallen in love with a ploughman, Premysl. She therefore related a vision in which she 
saw a farmer with one broken sandal, ploughing a field, or in other versions of the 
legend, eating from an iron table. She instructed her councilmen to seek out this man 
by letting a horse loose at a junction; they followed it to the village of Stadice and 
found Premysl exactly as she had said (either ploughing a field, or using an iron 
plough as a makeshift table). The two grandees who found Premysl brought him to the 
princely palace where Libuše married him, and Premysl the Ploughman thus became 
ruler. They went on to have three sons: Radobyl, Lidomir, and Nezamysl who 
continued the Premyslid dynasty in the Czech lands.

In another legend, she commanded her councillors to found a city at the place where 
they found a man making the best of use of his teeth at midday. They set off and at 
midday found a man sawing a block of wood (using his saw's teeth) when everyone 
else was eating; when they asked him what he was making he replied "Prah" (which in 
Czech means "threshold") and so Libuše named the city Prague (Czech: "Praha").[4]

Arts[edit]

The story of Libuše and Premysl was recounted in detail in the 12th century by Cosmas 
of Prague in his Chronica Boëmorum.

Another early account was included in Jan Dubravius' 1552 chronicle Historia regni 
Bohemiae, and Johann Karl August Musäus used this and Aeneas Silvius' Cardinalis 
de Bohemarum Origine ac Gestis Historia to write his version of the legend as 
"Libussa", which he included in his Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1782–86).

The mythical figure of Libuše gave material for several dramatic works, including 
Libussa, a tragedy by Franz Grillparzer, Libuše, an opera by Bedrich Smetana and Pole 
a palisáda, a novel by Miloš Urban. She is also featured as a character in Edward 
Einhorn's play, Rudolf II.[5]

In 2009, an American-Czech film version of the Libuše and Premysl story was released 
under the name The Pagan Queen.

Parents
____ Krok ()
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Siblings
____ Libuse (ABT  782 - )

Marriage To ____ Kresomysl (ABT  780 -  851)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Unislav (ABT  758 -  833)
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Children by ____ Kresomysl ABT  780 -  851
____ Neklan (ABT  800 -  873)

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