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The Lands of the Bohemian Crown were the states in Central Europe during the medieval and early modern periods with feudal obligations to the Bohemian kings.The crown lands primarily consisted of the Kingdom of Bohemia, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire according to the Golden Bull of 1356, the Margraviate of Moravia, the Duchies of Silesia, and the two Lusatias, known as the Margraviate ...
The Bohemian estrangement from the Empire continued after Vladislav [as II] had succeeded Matthias Corvinus of Hungary in 1490 and both the Bohemian and the Hungarian kingdom were held in personal union. Not considered an Imperial State, the Lands of the Bohemian Crown were not part of the Imperial Circles established by the 1500 Imperial Reform.
The reigns of Maria Theresa (1740–1780) and her son Joseph II (1780–1790), Holy Roman Emperor and coregent from 1765, were characterized by enlightened rule.Influenced by the ideas of eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophers, Maria-Theresa and Joseph worked toward rational and efficient administration of the Bohemian Kingdom.
The highest officials of the kingdom, to be chosen from among the local nobility, would be strictly subordinate to the king. [1] Thus, little remained of an autonomous and distinct Bohemian Kingdom. [1] Habsburg rule was further buttressed by the large-scale immigration into Bohemia of Catholic Germans from south German territories. [1]
The Czech leaders, subsequently labeled Old Czechs, favored alliance with the conservative and largely Germanized Bohemian nobility and advocated the restoration of traditional Bohemian autonomy. In essence, they wanted a reconstituted Bohemian Kingdom (including Moravia and Silesia ) with a constitutional arrangement similar to Hungary's.
Upon the death of King Matthias in 1490, Vladislas ruled the Bohemian crown lands and the Kingdom of Hungary in personal union. When Vladislas' only son Louis was killed at the Battle of Mohács in 1526 ending the Jagiellon dynasty rule in Bohemia, a convention of Bohemian nobles elected his brother-in-law, the Habsburg archduke Ferdinand I of ...
The Kingdom of Bohemia in 1618 with other Bohemian Crown lands within the Holy Roman Empire (1618). In the so-called "renewed constitution" of 1627, German was established as a second official language in the Czech lands.
Kingdom of Bohemia (10 C, 14 P) M. Margraviate of Moravia (2 C, 11 P) S. Duchies of Silesia (1 C, 29 P) Pages in category "Lands of the Bohemian Crown"