1361 Births - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wenceslaus, King of the Romans. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Wenceslaus (also Wenceslas, Czech: , German: , Italian: 26 February 1361 16 August 1419), was, by election, the German King (formally King of the Romans) from 1376 and, by inheritance, King of Bohemia (as Wenceslaus IV) from 1378. He was the third Bohemian and second German monarch of the House of Luxembourg. He was deposed in 1400 as the German King, but continued to rule as King of Bohemia. In 1373, Wenceslaus' father, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, obtained for him the Electoral Margraviate of Brandenburg. In 1376, he also obtained Wenceslaus' election as King of the Romans by the five remaining prince-electors, while two of the electoral votes, Brandenburg and Bohemia, were held by the emperor and his son, themselves. In order to secure the election of his son, Charles IV revoked the privileges of many Imperial Cities that he had earlier granted, and mortgaged them to various nobles. The cities, however, were not powerless, and as executors of the public peace, they had developed into a potent military force. Moreover, as Charles IV had organised the cities into leagues, he had made it possible for them to cooperate in large-scale endeavors. Indeed, on 4 July 1376, two days after Wenceslaus' election, fourteen Swabian cities bound together into an independent league to defend their rights against the newly elected King. The Swabian League soon attracted other members and until 1389 acted as an independent state within the Empire. On Charles's death in 1378, Wenceslaus inherited Bohemia. In the cathedral of Monza there is conserved a series of reliefs depicting the coronations of the kings of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy. The seventh of these depicts Wenceslaus being cr...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=38826