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Regents of Moravia
Moravia is the eastern part of the modern Czech Republic
and its history is closely associated with Bohemia's (the western part
of the Czech Republic). But it have still preserved its own identity and
have often had great autonomy towards Bohemia. The first Czech (and Slovakian)
state also had its centre in Moravia (which then included Slovakia).
It was the so called Great Moravia, which controlled most of the west
Slavic areas, but it was destroyed by the Hungarians in the early tenth
century. Thereafter was Moravia a disputed region between Hungary, Bohemia
and Poland until it definitely became a part of the Bohemian state 1029,
though it received considerable autonomy and was ruled by Bohemian princes
as a duchy. One of these were Břetislav who became duke of Bohemia 1035
and later introduced the principle of seniority as the basis of the
bohemian succession. This meant that it was the oldest member of the
house of Přemysl and not the oldest son to the former duke who
would become new duke when the former died. The other members of the
dynasty were granted duchies in Moravia, which were under Bohemian
supremacy, i.e. the duchies of Brno (Brünn), Olomouc (Olmütz) and Znojmo (Znaim).
The result of this arrangement was repeated feuds between the Premyslide
rulers.
Great Moravia
830-846
846-870 |
Mojmír I
Rostislav (Rastislav) |
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871-894 |
Svatopluk |
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894-907 |
Mojmír II |
907-955
955-995
995-1029
1029-1182 |
Part of Hungary
Part of Bohemia
Part of Poland
Under Bohemian Suzerainty |
Duchy of Moravia
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1029-1049
1049-1055
1055 |
Břetislav (duke of Bohemia 1135-55)
Spytihněv (duke of Bohemia 1155-61)
Partitioned in Brno, Olomoc and Znojmo |
Moravia-Brno
(Mähren-Brünn)
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1055-1061
1061-1092
1092-1097
1097-1100
1100-1115
1115-1123
1123-1125
1125-1156
1174-1176
1176-1189
1189-1191
1191-1194
1194-1197
1197- |
Ota I
(Olomouc 1061-1087)
Konrád I Ota (also Znojmo 1061-92)
Oldrich I
Bořivoj (also Znojmo, Bohemia 1100-07)
Oldrich I (restored, Znojmo 1113-15)
Soběslav I Oldrich (Bohemia 1125-40)
Ota II (also Olomouc 1107-10, 1113-26)
Vratislav
Václav II (Olomouc 1174-76, Bohemia 1191-92)
Konrád II Ota (margrave 1182)
Spytihněv
Vladislav Jindřich (Bohemia 1197)
Spytihněv (restored)
Vladislav Jindřich (now as margrave) |
Moravia-Olomouc
(Mähren-Olmütz)
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1055-1056
1056-1058
1058-1061
1061-1087
1087-1090
1090-1107
1107-1110
1110-1113
1113-1126
1126
1126-1130
1130-1135
1135-1137
1137-1140
1140-1160
1160-1164
1164-1173
1174-1176
1176-1179
1179-1189
1189-1191
1191-1194
1194-1200
1200 |
Vratislav
(duke of Bohemia 1061-92)
Direct rule by Bohemia
Vratislav (restored)
Ota I (Brno 1055-1061)
Boleslav
Svatopluk (duke of Bohemia 1107-09)
Ota II
Vladislav I
Ota II (restored, also Brno 1123-25)
Soběslav Oldrich (also Brno 1115-23)
Václav I
Soběslav Oldrich (restored)
Lupold
Soběslav Oldrich (re-restored)
Ota III Detleb
Vladislav II
Bedřich (Bohemia 1172-73, 1178-89)
Oldrich
Václav II (Brno 1174-76, Bohemia 1191-92)
Konrád Ota (margrave 1182)
Vladimír
Direct rule by Bohemia
Vladimír
United with the margraviate of Moravia |
Moravia-Znojmo
(Mähren-Znaim)
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1055-1092
1092-1097
1097-1100
1100-1112
1113-1115
1112-1123
1123-1161
1161-1174
1174-1191
1191-1194
1194-1197
1197- |
Konrád I Ota (also Brno 1061-1092)
Lutold
Bořivoj (also Brno, Bohemia 1100-07)
Lutold (restored)
Oldrich (also Brno 1100-15)
Soběslav I (duke of Bohemia 1125-40)
Konrad II
Konrád III
Konrád II Ota (margrave 1182)
Vladislav Jindřich (Bohemia 1197)
Jindřich Břetislav (Bohemia 1193-97)
Vladislav Jindřich (now as margrave) |
Margraviate of Moravia
Konrád Ota unified Moravia during the 1170s and he also
tried to become duke of Bohemia, but he was prevented from this by the emperor who
intervened in the Bohemian war of succession. Konrád Ota was therefore forced to
give up his claim to Bohemia 1182 but he was compensated by becoming
margrave of a Moravia freed from Bohemian suzerainty. However Konrád Ota
became duke of Bohemia 1189 whereby Moravia was reunited with Bohemia. In 1197
was the deposed Bohemian duke Vladislav Jindřich given Moravia as a
hereditary fief under Bohemian suzerainty.
House of Přemysl
Matyáš become king of
Bohemia 1611,
which Moravia thereafter is always united with
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