Joanna of Rožmitál

Johanna von Rosental († November 12, 1475 ) ( Czech Johana Rožmitálu z ), was Bohemian Queen and wife of King George of Podiebrad. She came from the Bohemian nobility Rosental.

Life

The second wife of the Czech king had two brothers and a sister. Even though her family belonged to the Catholic camp, her father and her uncle sympathized with the Hussites. After the death of the first wife of George, who had died at the birth of twins, married in 1450, the widower with five children, Johanna. Shortly after, George was appointed Landesverweser and elected on February 27, 1458 to the king. On May 8, 1458 the coronation of the queen was Johanna.

Over the next eighteen years, she determined indirectly, but also directly the fate of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Your desire was there, in the country restore peace between religions. Even her wedding was groundbreaking for an open faith in that time. Although Catholic, she married according to the faith of the Reformers, continuing a sign of the compatibility of faith and mutual respect.

As Queen, she participated in the meetings of the Royal Council in part, traveled with her husband to political conferences and himself led negotiations with warring parties. It also had a maternal duties for five children from the first marriage of George and another two children she gave birth in the first years after the wedding. In addition, she still on the young Matthias Corvinus and a Saxon princess.

They also strove for the weak and the poor and demanded clemency and justice for prisoners and rebels. Her husband, she gave in 1466 at Christmas a prayer book, worth mentioning because it was the first historically documented book donation in Bohemia. The gift was also at a time when the Pope patience with the Czech king lost, proclaiming him a heretic and organized a crusade against Bohemia. Later, the Queen and their children was provided by the pope under spell.

The tied more to her husband and his office. When George had to leave during the fighting against Corvinus Prague, Johanna took over his duties. 1470 they summoned the royalist Junker and pulled at the tip against her former pupil, the Hungarian king who was close to Prague.

1471, after the death of George, it convened a national meeting in which it was able to enforce her husband's legacy, who had determined the Polish prince Vladislav his successor. She supported the new king with the acquired political knowledge, authority and power. It was regarded as co-regent, the convening meetings, called the Bohemian nobility to concord and the reunification of the country demanded, which was partly occupied by the Hungarians Matthias.

1473 she retired to her seat after Melnik, but led from here continue intensive negotiations with Bavarian and Saxon dukes.

Her son Hynek of Podiebrad was Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg, Count of Glatz, diplomat and writer.