Karel IV. a jeho manželky Au
weight: 3.11 g
purity: 999,9/1000 Au
edge: plain
limited mintage: 200 pcs
issue day: June 2008
Objednávkový kód: CRM133
Blanka of Valois (1316 - 1st 8th 1348) - Moravian Margravine, Czech and Holy Roman queen, the first wife of Charles IV.
Blanche of Valois, christened Margaret was the daughter of French Count Charles of Valois and his third wife Mahaut of Chtillon. For Karla, her parents married in 1323 in Paris. Both the same age, but the couple grew apart minors. Began to live together after the Blanka in 1334 arrived with entourage in Prague. Czech queen became 2 September 1347. The following year, Blanka died after a short illness. S Charles IV. had two daughters.
Anne of Bavaria (26. 9. 1329 - 2nd 2nd 1353) - Czech and Holy Roman queen, the second wife of Charles IV.
Anna's parents were Elector Palatine Rudolf II. and Anna of Tyrol from the Palatinate branch of the Wittelsbach. Karel and Anna was married in 1349 in Bacharach on the Rhine river. Czech king this premeditated act of leaning on his side of the political opponents: Witelsbachov had previously supported a rival Charles Roman Gunther of Schwarzburg vzdorokrle. Their whole family was yet cast spells, and so Karel the Pope exacted its abolition. Besides gratitude former enemies gained through marriage and entitled to part of the Palatine heritage.
The Queen was crowned Anne of Bavaria in early November 1349 in the unfinished St. Vitus Cathedral. At the beginning of the following year she gave birth to a son Vclav who, however, died less than two years. A year later left the earthly world itself Anne of Bavaria.
Anna Svdnick (1339 - 11. 7. 1362) - Czech, German and Roman queen, Roman empress. The third wife of Charles IV.
Father of Anna Svdnick Duke Henry II. Svdnick, Hungarian mother Princess Catherine. When Anna was four years old, his father died and she grew up with her mother on the Buda side of the yard. Charles IV. a young Anna originally looked like a future bride for his son Wenceslas. He, however, died less than two years, and when he passed away a year later and his wife Anne of Bavaria, decided to marry Anne Swidnice itself. The wedding took place on May 27 in Buda, on July 28, Anne was crowned Queen of Czech and 9 February 1354 became the queen of German. Together with Charles IV. then was crowned April 5, 1355 in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The imperial couple with their first child, daughter, Elizabeth, lived to see three years later, the longed successor Vclav came into the world in 1361. The following year, the young empress died during the next delivery, and Charles IV. again became a widower.
Elizabeth Pomoansk (1346 or 1347 - 14 February 1393) - Czech queen and Holy Roman Empress. The last wife of King Charles IV.
Father Elizabeth was Pomeranian Duke Bogislav V., her mother, also named Elizabeth, was the daughter of Casimir III. Great. With his last wife of Charles IV. married May 21, 1363 in Krakow, Poland. Like previous marriages, this was also largely pragmatic move: it disrupted the emperor protilucemburskou opposition, to which belonged to the Duke Bogislav. Czech queen Elizabeth became June 18, 1363 in Prague, the crown on her head settled first Archbishop Ernest of Pardubice. For three days before he was designated as the successor to the throne Charles' son Vclav IV. from a previous marriage, a confident, Elizabeth bore heavily. Under Roman empress was crowned by Pope Urban V. November 1, 1368 in Rome. Charles Elizabeth gave birth to four sons and two daughters, while Anna later became Queen of England and Margaret married the Nuremberg burgrave John III. Hohenzollern. Sons: the later Emperor Sigismund, John of Grlitz, Charles and Henry. Elizabeth died in Hradec Krlov, which was a dowry town of Czech queens. Her remains are deposited in the royal crypt at St. Vitus Cathedral.