General Notes

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 8BG2-XH
King of Bohemia, died in 999. He maintained good relations with the
Germans, and it was in large measure owing to this that the favorite
project of his father was realized in 973. The Bishopric of Prague was
founded, and the Bohemian Church detached from its dependence upon the
German see of
Resenburg, who was instrumental in the expansion of Germanism at the
expense of Slavdom.           Christianization and political development
went side by side, and after a series of wars with Germans and Poles,
Bohemia may be said to have found her natural boundaries by the beginning
of the eleventh century. These were set by the Treaty of 1013 with the
Emperor Henry II. Boleslav II. married Emma of Saxony, who died in 1006.

Another disastrous ruler, who succeeded his elder brother as the King of
Bohemia, and eventually lost all Bohemia's foreign possessions and his
own throne, being replaced by a Polish prince, Vladivoj.