Vratislav II. Premysl († January 14th 1092) is crowned prince de Bohême the January 28th 1061 and king de Bohême in April 1085. He is the son of the prince Bretislav Ier of Bohemia and brother of Spytihněv II of Bohemia, of Conrad Ier of Bohemia duke of Brno, of Othon Ier the Beautiful duke of Olomouc and Jaromir, the junior whom one intended for the ecclesiastical career and for évêché of Prague.
Foreign politics
Vratislav II is the vassal one and the ally of the emperor Henri IV of the Holy roman Empire which it supports at the time of the Querelle of the Nominations, of the revolt of the Saxon ones. The pope Gregoire VII which continued his policy of surrounding directed against the emperor Henri IV enjoyed supports of the duke of Poland Boleslas II of Poland but the success of its plan depended on its skill to also gain the duke of Bohemia.The pope confirmed initially the privilege so much desired to carry the miter and the tunic granted to the predecessor of the duke Vratislav and it thanked that Ci for the regularity for the payment for the agreed tribute. It was that Vratislav II was proud of this particular privilege. Indeed his/her brother the Jaromir bishop caused him much trouble and he liked to irritate it while openly carrying his miter and his clothing during the religious ceremonies. The pope sought to be pleasant to the duke in his contentions with the bishop who pretended to be unaware of the new diocese created by Vratislav in Moravie in 1063. The prelate ends up taking the weapons to bring back to the diocese of Prague the Moravian possessions which had been alienated to him in favor of the new one évêché. Nevertheless all the efforts of the Saint Seat were vain; the Czech duke had chooses to grant its supports in Henri IV.
When the Saxon ones revolted against the emperor and ruined its projects of interventions in Poland Vratislav II came using Henri IV and its troops showed an exceptional bravery to the battle of Unstrut. Henri IV went until making of Jaromir known in Germany under the name of Gebhard his chancellor with the great satisfaction of his brother who got rid thus of a cumbersome prelate.
With the battle of Larchheilm Czech fought with such an obstinacy that they saved the honor of the overcome imperial army. It even succeeded in seizing the Gold Sword of the applicant Rodolphe de Rheinfelden duke of Souabe and candidate of the pope to the imperial throne. This sword was the trophy which one then carried in front of the Czech duke in the solemn special occasionss. When Henri IV besieged Rome in 1083 they were still Czech who soldiers of his army entered the first the eternal city.
While being the champion of an emperor excommunicated Vratislav II in the best terms with Gregoire VII was arranged to remain. There was perhaps an additional reason with the hostility of the duke towards the pope. Gregoire indeed categorically refused to grant to the Czechs the privilege to be able to say the liturgy in language slavonne.
In spite of this disappointment, Vratislav does not link its fate with the antipape of the emperor before the death of Gregoire and, even then, not losing sight of the fact its interest, it required to be exempted annual payment for the privilege to carry the miter, request which did not rain less of the world to the antipape.
Vratislav II also seems to have coveted the steps of Misnie and Lusace populated by Slavic tributes. However in spite of the promises of the emperor and the happy outcome of its combat against the rebellious margraves of these hostile territories to the empire Vratislav II finally does not succeed. When the threats launched by Poland and the Margraves were isolated it accepted the order of the emperor to return the territories to their German lords. It however preserved some possessions into Low Lusace of 1075 to 1086 and it hoped that the emperor would finish by him leaving this area in stronghold of the empire but in 1088 with its deeper spite Meissen was offered to the margrave of the Marche of the East saxonne Henri I {{er}}.
This fact cools considerably the heat of the king for the imperial cause and although it did not leave the service of Henri IV it abstained from now on granting a military aid to him.
In Bohemia
The tradition wanted that the Moravie is entrusted to the younger brother of the Czech prince and to the two younger brothers, Conrad and Othon obtains the load of Brno and Olomouc whereas with the Jaromir youngest child falls évêché of Prague, posts then prestigious and influential. But an enmity grows between the two brothers and Vratislav II founds évêché of Moravie with Olomouc, depend on the archbishop's palace of Mainz in order to counter and to weaken the capacity of his/her brother. The Empire and Rome are called as a referee of the conflict which is erased for a time with the nomination of Jaromir at the post of chancellor of Henri IV in 1077. The emperor enacts, with the Reichtag of Mainz in April 1085, the suppression of évêché of Olomouc, Moravie passes by again under the jurisdiction of évêché of Prague but Vratislav renews it can afterwards. Left in Rome to protest near the pope Urbain II, Jaromir dies in way (1090).
The last years of its reign are remembered by dynastic quarrels. Following the death, in 1086, of Othon Ier Beautiful of Olomouc, it entrusts the duchy of Olomouc to his/her son Boleslav, Vratislav II is seen countered by Conrad de Brno against which it raises an army carried out by his other wire, Bretislav which benefits from it to be turned over against his/her father. According to an old Czech feudal code, Vratislav II designates his/her Conrad brother like legitimate heir. Reconciled, Vratislav and Conrad demolish Bretislav which flees in Hungary.
He dies following a wound of hunting in 1092. Its thirty years reign is marked by the rise to power of Bohemia on the European political scene, that will remain of short duration.
Descent
Vratislav II had two wife:
in 1057 Adelaide of Hungary died in 1062 girl of Andre Ier of Hungary
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Judith died into 1086 which married in 1080 Ladislas Ier Hermann wire of the king de Pologne Casimir Ier the Restorer.
in 1062 Swatana died in 1126 girl of Casimir Ier the Restorer of which it had four wire and a second also baptized girl Judith.
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Boleslav duke of Olomouc in 1090 died in 1091
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dead Judith on December 9th, 1108 which married Wiprecht de Groitzsch
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