Jaromír (Bohemia)

Bust of Jaromír

Jaromír († November 4, 1035 near Lyssa ) was Duke of Bohemia in 1003, 1004-1012 and 1033-1034 .

Life

Jaromír was the second son of Boleslav II and his wife Hemma . During the reign of his older brother Boleslav III. he had to flee to Regensburg with his mother and younger brother Oldřich by the beginning of 1002 at the latest . After the fall of Boleslav III. and the death of the briefly reigning Duke Vladivoj , Jaromír and Oldřich were recalled by the Bohemian nobility in 1003 and Jaromír was appointed reigning Duke.

A few days later, the Polish Duke Bolesław Chrobry occupied Bohemia and set Boleslav III. back on. Jaromír and Oldřich had to flee again. After Boleslav III. the representatives of the warring clan of the Wrschowetze had murdered, Bolesław Chrobry withdrew his support. Bolesław now wanted to govern Bohemia itself and possibly integrate it into Poland. This failed on the one hand because he received little support from the Bohemians, who apparently already saw themselves as a separate tribe, and on the other hand because the German King Heinrich II demanded that Bolesław receive Bohemia from his hand as a fief. Bolesław did not want to accept this, whereupon Heinrich intervened and in 1004 reappointed Jaromír as reigning duke. After a campaign by Heinrich, during which Bohemian townspeople drove out Polish occupations and the residents of Prague opened the town gates to Heinrich, Jaromir was able to take possession of the principality again.

He remained a loyal ally of Heinrich over the next few years, for example during the campaigns against the Milzener in 1004 and against Poland in 1005 and 1010. Heinrich did not intervene when Jaromír was overthrown and castrated by his brother Oldřich in 1012 and fled to Bolesław in Poland of all places had to. In 1012 Heinrich even refused Jaromir's personal request for reinstatement.

In 1033, Emperor Konrad II had Oldřich deposed and Jaromír reappointed the ruling duke. Shortly thereafter, however, the imperial policy turned back in favor of Oldřich. Konrad allowed him to return and did not intervene when he had Jaromir captured and blinded in the spring of 1034. After Oldřich's death in November of the same year, he renounced the succession and stood up for his nephew Břetislav I. A little later he was murdered by supporters of the Wrschowetze.

literature

• Zdeněk Fiala : Přemyslovské Čechy. Český stát a společnost v letech 995-1310 , Prague 1965

predecessor	Office	successor
Bolesław IV. Chrabrý	Duke of Bohemia 1004-1012	Oldrich
Oldrich	Duke of Bohemia 1033-1034	Břetislav I.