Podiebrad family


The Bohemian Poděbrady family was a noble family in Bohemia, arising from the Lords of Kunštát. After Boček of Kunštát had acquired the Lordship of Poděbrady by marriage, he called himself "Boček of Kunštát and Poděbrady". The most prominent member of the family was George of Poděbrady, who was king of Bohemia. His sons were raised to imperial counts and Counts of Glatz. They founded the Silesian branch of the family, the Dukes of Dukes of Münsterberg.

History

Among the members of Poděbrady and Münsterberg branches of the family were some of the most important political figures in the Kingdom of Bohemia in the 14th through 17th century. Among their possessions were Poděbrady in central Bohemia and the eastern Bohemian dominions Litice Castle and Hummel and parts of the territory of the former monasteries at Opatovice and Pardubice.
After the death of Hynek Krušina of Lichtenburg, Lord of Glatz in 1454, George of Poděbrady acquired most of the possessions Hynek left behind, under a preliminary contract Hynek had signed shortly before his death. These included the Častolovice inheritance, which included the Lordship of Glatz, which George raised to a county in 1459. In 1456, he bought the Duchy of Münsterberg from Ernest of Opava. This gave him significant influence in Silesia, which would provide the political and economic basis for his descendants. They founded as Dukes of Münsterberg, Oels, Bernstadt and Opava the Silesian branch of the family known in Czech as Paní z Poděbrad a Minsterberka. Even after they lost the Duchy of Münsterberg and sold the County of Glatz in 1501, the Silesian branch of the family continued to call themselves "Duke of Münsterberg" and "Count of Glatz" until the branch died out in 1647.
Duke Charles II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, who served as governor of Silesia, acquired the north Moravian Lordship of Šternberk by marriage in 1570. In 1587 he inherited the south Moravian Lordship of Jevišovice.
With the death of Duke Charles Frederick I, the House of Poděbrady died out in the male line in 1647. His possessions reverted to the Bohemian Crown. Because Charles Frederick's daughter Elisabeth Marie of Münsterberg-Oels was married to Silvius I Nimrod, Duke of Württemberg-Oels, the feudal rights on the Principality of Oels were transferred to the House of Württemberg in 1648. The Moravian Lordship of Jevišovice reverted to the sovereign.

Genealogy of the Poděbrady line

  1. Boček IV of Poděbrady eldest son of George of Poděbrady, the last member of family to use the title of Duke of Poděbrady
  2. Victor of Münsterberg and Opava, since 1459 imperial count and Duke of Münsterberg and Count of Glatz, 1465-1485 Duke of Opava
  3. # Joan, married to Duke Casimir II of Cieszyn
  4. # Bartholomew, Duke of Münsterberg and Count of Glatz
  5. # Lawrence / Vavřinec
  6. # Euphemia Magdalena, abbess of the Sanctuary of St. Jadwiga in Trzebnica
  7. # Ursula / Uršula
  8. # Apolonia, married to Erhard of Queis, Bishop of Pomesania
  9. Barbara, married firstly with Henry of Leipa, and secondly with John Křinecký of Ronov
  10. Henry the Elder, since 1462 imperial count, Duke of Münsterberg and Count of Glatz
  11. # Albert I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Count of Glatz
  12. ## Ursula / Uršula, married to Henry / Jindřich Švihovský of Riesenberg
  13. # George I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Count of Glatz
  14. ## Henry / Jindřich
  15. # Margaret of Münsterberg
  16. # Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Count of Glatz
  17. ## Anna
  18. ## Catherine
  19. ## Margaret, married to John Zajíc of Hasenburg
  20. ## Joachim of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Bishop of Brandenburg
  21. ## Kunigunde / Kunhuta, married to Christopher of Boskovice
  22. ## Ursula / Vorsila, married to Jerome of Bieberstein
  23. ## Henry II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Munsterberg, Oels, and BernStadt, Count of Glatz
  24. ### Anna
  25. ### Salomena, married to George of Thurn and Valsassina
  26. ### Henry III of Bernstadt, Duke of Münsterberg and Bernstadt, Count of Glatz
  27. ### Charles
  28. ### Charles II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Count of Glatz, gained the North Moravian Lordship of Šternberk through marriage in 1570; in 1587 he inherited the South Moravian Lordship of Jevišovice
  29. #### Henry Wenceslaus the Elder,
  30. #### Margareta Magdalene
  31. #### George
  32. #### Charles
  33. #### Henry Wenceslaus the Younger
  34. ##### Anna Elisabeth
  35. #### Charles Frederick I ; the male line of the house in Podebrady Oels ended with him.
  36. ##### Elisabeth Marie of Münsterberg-Oels, last Duchess of Münsterberg.
  37. #### Barbara Margaret
  38. #### Joachim George
  39. #### Magdalena Elisabeth married to George Rudolf of Liegnitz
  40. #### Sophie Catherine, married to George III of Brzeg
  41. ### Catherine, married to George Berka z Dubé
  42. ## Hedwig, married in 1525 George of Brandenburg-Ansbach -Kulmbach
  43. ## John, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Count of Glatz
  44. ### Charles Christopher, Duke of Münsterberg, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Count of Glatz
  45. ## George II, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Count of Glatz
  46. # Magdalena
  47. # Sidonie/ Zdena, married in 1515 with Ulrich of Hardegg
  48. Catherine of Poděbrady, married to King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
  49. Sidonie / Zdena, married to the Duke Albert III "the Courageous" of Saxony
  50. Henry the Younger, since 1462 imperial count, also Duke of Münsterberg and Count of Glatz
  51. # Anna, married to Henry IV of Neuhaus
  52. # Frederick / Bedrich, illegitimate son
  53. Frederick / Bedrich
  54. George / Jiří
  55. Ludmila of Poděbrady, married to Frederick I of Legnica
  56. John