Duchy of Bohemia

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Bohemia emerged as a duchy around 870 AD, the first form of the modern-day Czech State. It was a vassal of the Frankish Empire until 962 when East Francia became the Holy Roman Empire, of which Bohemia initially was not part of.

Establishment

January 963: The Duchy of Bohemia became a State of the Holy Roman Empire.

Chronology

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1. Frankish Partitions

The Frankish Kingdom was partitioned and reuinited several times as the Frankish rulers used to divide their territories equally among their heirs. This lead also to a number of wars and revolts.

1.1.Incoronation of Otto I

East Frankish King Otto I was crowned first Holy Roman Emperor.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1003: In 1002, Boleslaus I of Poland occupied the Duchy of Bohemia.

January 1004: After Vladivoj died the next year, the Polish duke Bolesław I the Brave invaded Bohemia and Moravia.

January 1004: End of the Polis occupation of Bohemia.

January 1005: In 1004, after the Poles were expelled from Bohemia with help from Henry II, Duke Jaromír received the duchy of Bihemia in fief from the king of Germany.

January 1014: Between 1012/13, Polish Duke Bolesław I conquered the areas of the pagan Opolans, Golensizes and Wislans and was thus able to completely incorporate all of Silesia, including parts of Lusatia and Lesser Poland, into his duchy. This was the climax of the first phase of Polish rule over Silesia.

January 1030: Duke Bretislaus I of Bohemia re-acquired the Moravian lands in 1019 or 1029.

January 1039: When a pagan uprising against the Christian Church broke out in large parts of Poland in 1037 and the bishops of Breslau were driven out to Schmograu (Smogorzów) and to the Ritschen (Ryczyn), Duke Břetislav I of Bohemia seized the opportunity in 1038 and conquered Silesia.

February 1039: In 1039, Duke Bretislaus I of Bohemia invaded Poland, capturing Poznań and ravaging Gniezno.

January 1040: Duke Bretislaus I of Bohemia left Poznań, moving his troops to Silesia.

January 1055: Silesia back to the Duchy of Poland, after Holy Roman Emperor Henry III was able to persuade Břetislav I of Bohemia to recnounce to the region during the Peace of Quedlinburg.

January 1077: In 1076, King Henry IV of Germany transferred the Bautzener Land to Duke Vratislav II of Bohemia as an imperial fiefdom after there had been disputes with the Saxon-Thuringian regional nobility, including the Margrave of Meissen, over his imperial property policy.

January 1139: It was not until the Pentecostal Peace of Glatz, concluded in 1137 and confirmed in 1138, that a permanent border was drawn between Poland, including Silesia, as well as Bohemia and Moravia.