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Litauen und die Könige von Böhmen (von den letzten Přemysliden bis zu Karl IV.)

Title in English Lithuania and the Czech kings (from the last Přemyslids to Charles IV.)
Authors

JAN Libor

Year of publication 2019
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Studia historica Brunensia
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/143191
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/SHB2019-2-1
Keywords history; the Middle Ages; kings of Bohemia; Lithuania; Teutonic Order; crusades; diplomacy
Description Přemysl Otakar II was the first of the Czech Přemyslid kings to turn his attention to Lithuania. By the way, the Bishop of Chelm of the Teutonic Order Heidenreich stayed at his court, who in 1253 crowned the Lithuanian prince Mindaugas. The king enlisted the help of the Teutonic Knights against the Prussians at the turn of 1254/1255 and for the second time 1267/1268, when the eventual Christianization of Lithuania also played an important role in his eventually unsuccessful plans to establish a metropolis in Olomouc. Three times (1329, 1336/1337, 1344/1345) the knightly King John of Luxembourg marched against the Lithuanians together with the Order of the Teutonic Knights and divisions from Western Europe. Undoubtedly an interesting moment is the letter of Charles IV. to Grand Duke Algirdas of April 21, 1358, when he addressed him as the “monarch of the mundi” with an offer of baptism.

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