Anne of Bohemia (1290–1313)

Anne of Bohemia
Queen consort of Bohemia
Tenure	1307–1310
Born	15 October 1290 Bohemia, Czech Republic
Died	3 September 1313 (aged 22) Carinthia, Austria
Spouse	Henry of Bohemia
House	House of Přemyslid
Father	Wenceslaus II of Bohemia
Mother	Judith of Habsburg

Anne of Bohemia (1290–1313) was the eldest surviving daughter of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland and his first wife Judith of Habsburg. Her siblings included Elisabeth of Bohemia and Wenceslaus III of Bohemia.^[1][2]

Family

Anne was born in 1290 in the Kingdom of Bohemia. Her mother, Judith, died in 1297 when Anne was seven years old. Of her mother's ten children, only four of them lived to adulthood: Wenceslaus, Anne, Elisabeth and Margaret.

In 1300 Anne's widowed father, Wenceslaus, remarried a Polish princess called Elisabeth Richeza from the genus Piast dynasty. Anne's father then gained the Crown of Poland for the next five years (he died in 1305). They had a daughter, Agnes of Bohemia.

Her father also had numerous illegitimate children, including Jan Volek (?? – 27 September 1351), bishop of Olomouc

Marriage

In 1306 Anne married Henry of Carinthia, a son of Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia and Elisabeth of Bavaria.

After the murder of Anne's brother, Wenceslaus, in 1306, Anne's husband was elected King of Bohemia and titular King of Poland. However, all power was soon taken over by Rudolph of Habsburg. Anne and Henry then fled to Carinthia out of reach from Rudolph. Rudolph only reigned for one year and on his death Henry assumed the throne of Bohemia again.

The royal couple turned their attention to Anne's younger unmarried sister Elisabeth. They wished to have her married but Elisabeth refused every suitor that came forward. In 1310 Elisabeth married John of Luxembourg. This union caused Anne and Elisabeth to fall out. It was said that Elisabeth was more beautiful than Anne and that Anne was jealous of her.

By 1310 John and Elisabeth occupied Prague; Anne and Henry were sent back to live in Carinthia in exile. It was there in 1313 that she died aged only twenty two and childless. Her husband married twice more.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Anne of Bohemia (1290–1313)

16. Ottokar I of Bohemia               8. Wenceslaus I of Bohemia                       17. Constance of Hungary               4. Ottokar II of Bohemia                             18. Philip of Swabia               9. Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen                       19. Irene Angelina               2. Wenceslaus II of Bohemia                                   20. Michael of Chernigov               10. Rostislav Mikhailovich                       21. Elena/Maria Romanovna of Halych               5. Kunigunda of Slavonia                             22. Béla IV of Hungary               11. Anna of Hungary                       23. Maria Laskarina               1. Anne of Bohemia                                         24. Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg               12. Albert IV, Count of Habsburg                       25. Agnes of Staufen               6. Rudolph I of Germany                             26. Ulrich of Kiburg               13. Heilwig of Kiburg                       27. Anna of Zähringen               3. Judith of Habsburg                                   28. Burckhard IV, Count of Hohenburg               14. Burckhard V, Count of Hohenburg                       7. Gertrude of Hohenburg                             30. Rudolph II, Count Palatine of Tübingen               15. Mechtild of Tübingen

Sources in English

• Anne's Bohemia; Czech Literature and Society, 1310–1420, by Alfred Thomas University of Minnesota Press, 1998, Preface by David Wallace

References

1. Anne of Bohemia
2. Ancestors of Anne of Bohemia