Boček I of Poděbrady

Boček I of Podiebrad (also Boček of I. of Kunštát and Podiebrad, Boczek / Botschek of Podiebrad; Czech Boček I. Poděbrady Boček I. z Kunštátu a Poděbrad, † 1373 ) was the founder of Poděbrady family branch of the lords of Kunštát.

Life

It is not known when and where Boček was born. Since his father Gerhard / Heralt eunuch was ( Komorník ) at the courts in Brno and Znojmo Boček probably grew up in Moravia. 1350 ago Boček went to Bohemia, where he presumably at the royal court in Prague held an office and acquired the favor of the king Charles IV. Anyway, he transferred this in 1350 the right to some minor escheated courtyards. 1351 or earlier Boček married Elisabeth of Lichtenburg ( Eliska z Lichtemburka ), a daughter of Heinrich von Lichtenburg on Žleb. His marriage he came into the possession of the pledge rule Podiebrad, he received from King Charles IV as a hereditary possession. In a document of 1353 he referred to himself for the first time as Boček of Podiebrad, later as Boček of Kunštát on Podiebrad or gentleman on Podiebrad. He founded the Poděbrady branch of the family of the Lords of Kunštát. Headquarters of Poděbrady was for several generations the Podiebrad castle.

1353-1358 Boček held the post of cupbearer ( číšník ) at the court of Charles IV After he lost the favor of the king, he was anxious to expand his family in Bohemia and Moravia. Before 1365 he erected near Bistrita on Hostein in the host One mountains, the castle Obřany, which he named after the extinct family seat of the Kunstädter, the castle Obřany at Brno. Since he had built the castle without permission of King Charles and his brother Margrave Johann Heinrich, King Karl to the destruction of the castle.

In Moravia Boček got to the ground the city and in 1365 to the half of the town Proßnitz. In 1369 he bought from Erhard of Butschowitz the same town with the associated parties. and in 1371 the East Bohemian rule Lititz. For the year 1371 it is occupied as a saint of the Church of Sopotnice, which belonged to the rule Lititz. Two years later Boček died.

Family

The marriage with Elisabeth Bočeks of Lichtenburg came from the sons:

• Boček II of Kunštát and Podiebrad († 1416 )
• Heinrich / Hynek ( † after 1376 ) and
• Ješek ( † after 1393 ) and the daughter
• Elisabeth / Alžběta († 1402), Abbess of St. George's Monastery in Prague