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He was the second son of Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia and Wenceslaus II's wife, Judith of Habsburg. [2] [3] He was born in Prague on 6 October 1289. [2] [3] His elder brother died before his birth and he was the only son of his parents to survive infancy. [2] Wenceslaus was still a child when his mother, Judith, died on 18 June 1297. [4]
Again luck favored Władysław, as on 4 August 1306, Wenceslaus III was murdered in Olomouc in Moravia, and the Kingdom of Bohemia was without a monarch and in the heat of a civil war. The death of the last Přemyslid on the Bohemian throne resulted in a rally of knights in Kraków, which led to an official invitation to Władysław the Short ...
Bohemian king Wenceslaus III of Bohemia was murdered in a nearby house of the former dean of the cathedral on 4 August 1306. Wenceslaus III was the last of the male Přemyslid rulers of Bohemia. Gothic revival changes, which included refacing the building, rebuilding the west front and the construction of the central tower, were made during ...
Wenceslaus III (Václav III) 6 October 1289 Son of Wenceslaus II and Judith of Austria: 21 June 1305 – 4 August 1306 Kingdom of Bohemia: Viola of Cieszyn 5 October 1305 Brno no children 4 August 1306 Olomouc aged 16: Uncrowned (as Bohemian king). Also King of Hungary (1301–1305) and King of Poland. Anna (Anna Přemyslovna) 10 October 1290
Wenceslaus III (Václav III) 6 October 1289 Son of Wenceslaus II and Judith of Austria: 21 June 1305 - 4 August 1306 4 August 1306 Olomouc aged 16: Bohemia Viola of Cieszyn 5 October 1305 Brno no children Uncrowned (as Bohemian king). Also King of Hungary (1301–1305) and King of Poland. Anna (Anna Přemyslovna) 10 October 1290
Wenceslaus III (6 October 1289 – 4 August 1306); King of Bohemia, King of Hungary and King of Poland. Agnes (6 October 1289 – between 1292 and 1306), twin of Wenceslaus III, betrothed to Rupert of Nassau, son of King Adolf of Germany, but died young. Anna (10 October 1290 – 3 September 1313), married in 1306 to Duke Henry of Carinthia.
Elizabeth's stepson Wenceslaus III (also a claimant to the throne of Hungary) succeeded to the thrones of both Bohemia and Poland but was murdered on 4 August 1306 in Olomouc, and with him the Přemyslid dynasty became extinct. The Kujavian branch of the Piast dynasty ascended to the Polish throne.
After the death of Wenceslaus III, king of Bohemia and Poland, the right to the Polish crown was disputed, being claimed by various Piast dukes as well as the successors of Wenceslaus III on the Bohemian throne. In 1327, John of Bohemia invaded Poland in order to gain the Polish crown.