Podiebrad family
The Bohemian noble family of Podiebrad ( Czech Pani Poděbrady ) came from the Lords of Kunštát. After the Kunstädter Boček († 1373 ) came by marriage to the rule Podiebrad, he called himself the first " of Kunštát and Podiebrad ". The most famous member of the family Poděbrady branch was the Bohemian King George of Podiebrad, whose sons were raised to Imperial Count and Count of Glatz. They founded the Silesian branch of the family of the Dukes of Münsterberg ( Czech Knížata z Minsterberka ).
History
Members of Poděbrady or Minster Berger family branch were in the 14th to 17th centuries the most important political figures in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Among her possessions were initially inter alia Podiebrad in Central Bohemia and the East Bohemian dominions Litice, Náchod, Bumblebee, parts of the territory of the former monastery Opatowitz and Pardubice.
After the death of Mr. Glatzer deposit Hynek Kruschina of Lichtenburg 1454 Georg von Podiebrad acquired most of the left by Hynek possessions due to a pre-contract. Thus he came to the so-called Častolowitzer heritage, which included the Glatzer country that he rose in 1459 to a county. With the acquisition of the Duchy of Münsterberg 1456 he managed to influence in Silesia, which formed a political and economic basis for his descendants. They justified as Dukes of Münsterberg, oil which Bernstadt Opava and the Silesian branch of the family of Poděbrady ( Czech Pani Poděbrady a Minsterberka, also Poděbradové z Minsterberka or Minsterberkové ). They also held the title of Count of Glatz. Even after the loss of the Duchy of Münsterberg and the sale of the County of Glatz in 1501 to her later brother Ulrich of Hardegg they titled as Dukes of Münsterberg and Count of Glatz. Duke Karl II ( Münsterberg Oels), who held the office of the Silesian Provincial Governor, in 1570 came by marriage to the north Moravian rule Šternberk; In 1587 he inherited the rule Jaispitz in South Moravia.
With Duke Karl Friedrich I. the house Podiebrad extinct in the male line. His possessions were initially as a completed fief to the crown of Bohemia. As Charles Frederick I 's daughter Elisabeth Marie of Münsterberg - Oels with Silvius Nimrod I. (Württemberg - Oels) was married, in 1648 this reached the lehnsrechtliche transmission of the Principality Oels to the house Wuerttemberg. The Moravian rule Jaispitz was drafted by the sovereign.
Genealogy of the line Podiebrad
- I. Boček of Kunštát and Podiebrad († 1373 ), founder of the Poděbrady family branch of the lords of Kunštát.
- Hynek of Kunštát and Podiebrad ( † after 1376 ), son of Boček I.
- Ješek of Kunštát and Podiebrad ( † after 1393 ), son of Boček I.
- Boček II of Kunštát and Podiebrad († 1417 ) 1403-1408 Colonel Landschreiber of Bohemia. His sons: Jan von Kunštát and Podiebrad († ~ 1407-1409 ); through his marriage to Elizabeth of Wartenberg ( Eliska z Vartemberka ) he came to the Kost Castle and Mydlovar and to the rule Kostomlat. After the early death Jans his possessions were lost for the Poděbrady branch of the family.
- Boček III. of Kunštát and Podiebrad († 1429), followers of the Hussite
- Hynek Boček of Kunštát and Podiebrad († 1426), a captain in the East Bohemian Orebiten.
- Viktorin of Kunštát and Podiebrad (1403-1427), supporter of the Hussites and the father of: George of Podiebrad ( Jiří z Poděbrad ) was King of Bohemia. He enlarged his property to the Glatzer country that he rose in 1459 to a county, as well as the Silesian Duchy of Münsterberg. After George's death in 1471 his possessions were divided in 1472 after a contract of inheritance to his four sons. Three of them justified as Dukes of Münsterberg the Silesian branch of the family. In addition, they and their male descendants bore the title of Count of Glatz.