Period of the First Premyslids - Preromanesque Castle (before 1012)


Borivoj ( -894)
approx. 885-890 Built the first church, St.Marie, at the Castle.
Spytihnev (894-905)
Allowed himself to be baptised in Regensburg; referred to in foreign (Anals of Fulda) as well as home anals.
Vratislav I. (905-921)
Founded the church of St.George at the Castle.
Vaclav Sv. (922-935)
approx. 926 Founded the St.Vitus rotunda.
Boleslav I. (935-967)
950 King Otto I. defeated Boleslav I.
955 The Czechs helped to defeat Hungarians in the battle on Lech.
Boleslav II. (967-999)
973 Prague became the seat of the bishop.
974 The first monastery of Benedictines was founded at St. George. The abbasses became Mlada, sister of Prince Boleslav II.
975 - 977 Repeated military expeditions of the Emperor Otto II. into Bohemia.
981 Territory of Boleslav II. broadened up to the territory of the Prince of Kiew.
995 Exit of the bishop Vojtech (Adalbert) to Rome
995, 25. 9. End of the Slavnik dynasty at the Castle Libice.
Prague Castle became the head of unified Bohemia.
Boleslav III. (999-1002)
1003 (Boleslav of Poland called to reign in Bohemia.)
Poland, Bohemia and Slovakia unified.
Jaromir (1003-1012)
1004 Elected Prince Jaromir acknowledged by the Emperor Heinrich II.

 

Prague Castle at the end of 10. century (detail 25kB)
Prague Castle at the end of 10. century