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Wenceslaus II of Bohemia

1271 - 1305

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Wenceslaus II Přemyslid (Czech: Václav II.; Polish: Wacław II Czeski; 27 September 1271 – 21 June 1305) was King of Bohemia (1278–1305), Duke of Cracow (1291–1305), and King of Poland (1296–1305). He was the only son of King Ottokar II of Bohemia and Ottokar's second wife Kunigunda. He was born in 1271, ten years after the marriage of his parents. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia has received more than 313,725 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Wenceslaus II of Bohemia is the 1,371st most popular politician (up from 1,500th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 45th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Politician.

Wenceslaus II of Bohemia is most famous for being the son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and the brother of Emperor Sigismund. He was King of Bohemia from 1378 until his death.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia ranks 1,371 out of 15,577Before him are Süleyman Demirel, Rodolfo Graziani, Johan de Witt, Yang Guifei, Mohammed Nadir Shah, and Takeda Shingen. After him are George Tupou V, Urho Kekkonen, Lothair of France, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Æthelred I, King of Wessex, and Alfonso V of Aragon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1271, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia ranks 2Before him is Ghazan. After him are Elizabeth of Portugal, Charles Martel of Anjou, Zhao Bing, Emperor Gong of Song, Judith of Habsburg, Mikhail of Tver, Henry II of Jerusalem, and Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1305, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia ranks 3Before him are William Wallace and Joan I of Navarre. After him are John IV Laskaris, Roger de Flor, Guy, Count of Flanders, Nicholas of Tolentino, Moses de León, Jean de Meun, Roger of Lauria, Maximus Planudes, and Blanche of France, Duchess of Austria.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia ranks 43 out of 973Before him are Max Brod (1884), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), Jan Palach (1948), Emil Zátopek (1922), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), and Madeleine Albright (1937). After him are Gerty Cori (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Emil Hácha (1872), Václav Klaus (1941), Josef Masopust (1931), and Bernard Bolzano (1781).

Among POLITICIANS In Czechia

Among politicians born in Czechia, Wenceslaus II of Bohemia ranks 9Before him are Miloš Zeman (1944), Edvard Beneš (1884), Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850), Ottokar II of Bohemia (1233), Klement Gottwald (1896), and Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289). After him are Emil Hácha (1872), Václav Klaus (1941), Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940), Karl Renner (1870), Karl Hermann Frank (1898), and Ludvík Svoboda (1895).