Judith von Schweinfurt was a duchesse of Bohemia and the wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia. Her parents were Heinrich, Markgraf von Nordgau (margrave of Bavaria) of the House of Babenberg and his wife Gerberga.
The House of Premysl wished to confirm its good relationship with the Babenbergs through a marriage to Judith in 1020. Judith was a desirable bride, but Oldrich of Bohemia had only one son, Bretislaus, and he was of illegitimate birth, thus complicating the prospect of a marriage with the high-born Judith. Bretislaus solved the problem by kidnapping Judith from a monastery, although he was never punished for the crime. He married Judith some time later. Their first son Spytihnev was born after almost ten years, which led to the hypothesis that the kidnapping happened in 1029, although Judith may have given birth to daughters before her first son.
After Bretislaus's death in 1055, Judith was expelled from Bohemia by order of Spytihnìv. She settled in Hungary, where, according to chronicler Cosmas of Prague, she married "Petri regi Ungariorum" (Pietro Orseolo, deposed king of Hungary) to spite Spytihnìv. This marriage is not unanimously accepted as fact by historians.
Judith died in 1058. The Chronica Boemorum records the death "1058 IV Non Aug" of "Iudita coniunx Bracizlavi, ductrix Boemorum", specifying (among other things) that her son Vratislav had retrieved her body in order to bury her next to Bretislaus. They are buried in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.
The House of Premysl wished to confirm its good relationship with the Babenbergs through a marriage to Judith in 1020. Judith was a desirable bride, but Oldrich of Bohemia had only one son, Bretislaus, and he was of illegitimate birth, thus complicating the prospect of a marriage with the high-born Judith. Bretislaus solved the problem by kidnapping Judith from a monastery, although he was never punished for the crime. He married Judith some time later. Their first son Spytihnev was born after almost ten years, which led to the hypothesis that the kidnapping happened in 1029, although Judith may have given birth to daughters before her first son.
After Bretislaus's death in 1055, Judith was expelled from Bohemia by order of Spytihnìv. She settled in Hungary, where, according to chronicler Cosmas of Prague, she married "Petri regi Ungariorum" (Pietro Orseolo, deposed king of Hungary) to spite Spytihnìv. This marriage is not unanimously accepted as fact by historians.
Judith died in 1058. The Chronica Boemorum records the death "1058 IV Non Aug" of "Iudita coniunx Bracizlavi, ductrix Boemorum", specifying (among other things) that her son Vratislav had retrieved her body in order to bury her next to Bretislaus. They are buried in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.
Judith von Schweinfurt was a duchesse of Bohemia and the wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia. Her parents were Heinrich, Markgraf von Nordgau (margrave of Bavaria) of the House of Babenberg and his wife Gerberga.
The House of Premysl wished to confirm its good relationship with the Babenbergs through a marriage to Judith in 1020. Judith was a desirable bride, but Oldrich of Bohemia had only one son, Bretislaus, and he was of illegitimate birth, thus complicating the prospect of a marriage with the high-born Judith. Bretislaus solved the problem by kidnapping Judith from a monastery, although he was never punished for the crime. He married Judith some time later. Their first son Spytihnev was born after almost ten years, which led to the hypothesis that the kidnapping happened in 1029, although Judith may have given birth to daughters before her first son.
After Bretislaus's death in 1055, Judith was expelled from Bohemia by order of Spytihnìv. She settled in Hungary, where, according to chronicler Cosmas of Prague, she married "Petri regi Ungariorum" (Pietro Orseolo, deposed king of Hungary) to spite Spytihnìv. This marriage is not unanimously accepted as fact by historians.
Judith died in 1058. The Chronica Boemorum records the death "1058 IV Non Aug" of "Iudita coniunx Bracizlavi, ductrix Boemorum", specifying (among other things) that her son Vratislav had retrieved her body in order to bury her next to Bretislaus. They are buried in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.
The House of Premysl wished to confirm its good relationship with the Babenbergs through a marriage to Judith in 1020. Judith was a desirable bride, but Oldrich of Bohemia had only one son, Bretislaus, and he was of illegitimate birth, thus complicating the prospect of a marriage with the high-born Judith. Bretislaus solved the problem by kidnapping Judith from a monastery, although he was never punished for the crime. He married Judith some time later. Their first son Spytihnev was born after almost ten years, which led to the hypothesis that the kidnapping happened in 1029, although Judith may have given birth to daughters before her first son.
After Bretislaus's death in 1055, Judith was expelled from Bohemia by order of Spytihnìv. She settled in Hungary, where, according to chronicler Cosmas of Prague, she married "Petri regi Ungariorum" (Pietro Orseolo, deposed king of Hungary) to spite Spytihnìv. This marriage is not unanimously accepted as fact by historians.
Judith died in 1058. The Chronica Boemorum records the death "1058 IV Non Aug" of "Iudita coniunx Bracizlavi, ductrix Boemorum", specifying (among other things) that her son Vratislav had retrieved her body in order to bury her next to Bretislaus. They are buried in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.
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