- Wenceslaus III of Bohemia
Wenceslaus III Premyslid (Czech and Slovak "Václav", German: "Wenzel III", Hungarian "Vencel", Polish "Wacław",
Serbo-Croatian : "V(j)enceslav III/В(j)eнцeслав III" or Vaclav III/Вацлав III), (October 6 ,1289 –August 4 ,1306 ,Olomouc ,Moravia ) was the King ofHungary (1301 - 1305) and King ofBohemia (1305 - 1306).Wenceslaus III was the son of Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia and
Poland , and Judith vonHabsburg , the daughter of Rudolf I, King of Germany. He faced the problem of internal quarrels in Hungary and in Poland.Wenceslaus was the last of the male
Premyslid rulers of Bohemia. His sister, Elisabeth (Eliška), heiress of Bohemia, married John "The Blind" of Luxembourg, who assumed the Bohemian throne in his wife's right.Kingdom of Hungary
His father accepted the crown of Hungary on behalf of Wenceslaus III in 1301. On
August 27 1301 , Wenceslaus III was crowned inSzékesfehérvár as the King of Hungary and as such assumed the name Ladislaus V (Hungarian: "László" [This name isn't recognized in contemporary Hungarian historiography; the king is usually named simply Vencel and the fifth ordinal number is allocated toLadislaus the Posthumous ("V. Lázsló")] , Czech, Slovak and Croatian: "Ladislav"). At that time theKingdom of Hungary was split into several de-facto principalities, and Wenceslaus was only accepted as the King of Hungary by the rulers in modernSlovakia (Matthew Csák and the Abas), inBurgenland (theGüssing s [Kőszegis] ) and on territory around the capital,Buda . But the Abas and Matthew Csák switched sides in 1303 and started to support Wenceslaus' rivalCharles Robert of Anjou . Consequently, the young Wenceslaus, in Ofen (Buda), became afraid and wrote to his father inPrague for help. His father took a large army and invaded Buda, but having considered the situation, he took his son and the Hungarian crown and returned to Bohemia. Ivan of Güssing was named to represent Wenceslaus III in Hungary. After his father's death, Wenceslaus III decided to renounce the Hungarian throne, and onDecember 6 ,1305 , he relinquished the crown to Otto, Duke of Lower Bavaria. But Otto, supported only by the Güssings, was imprisoned in 1307 and abdicated the throne in 1308, leavingCharles Robert as ruler of Hungary. In Hungarian historiography he is noted as anantiking during theinterregnum of 1301-1310.Poland
Wenceslaus III, however, wanted to claim his hereditary right to the Polish throne, but was murdered under mysterious circumstances in
Olomouc ,Moravia on August 4, 1306, while on a campaign to that end.Ancestors
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