Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia
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Wenceslaus IV was King of Bohemia from 1378 until his death in 1419 and King of the Romans and King of Germany from 1376 until he was deposed in 1400. As he belonged to the House of Luxembourg, he was
Detail from the book of hours made for King Wenceslaus, 1400–1419
King Wenceslaus depicted in his Bible (the so-called Wenceslas Bible, late 14th century)
Charles IV was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death in 1378. He was elected King of Germany in 1346 and became King of Bohemia that same year. He was a member of the House of Luxembourg from h
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia
…also Duke of Luxembourg as Wenceslaus II from 1383 to 1388. Wenceslaus was born in the Imperial city of Nuremberg, the son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV by his third wife Anna of Svídnická, a scion of the Silesian Piasts, and baptized at St. Sebaldus Church. He was raised by the Prague Archbishops Arnošt…
Portrait detail from Votive Panel of Jan Očko of Vlašim, c. 1371
Bust of Charles IV in St. Vitus Cathedral, 1370s
The Golden Bull of 1356
Statue of Charles IV near Charles Bridge (1848), Prague, by Ernst Julius Hähnel