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Adelaide of Meissen

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for help. In the German throne dispute, both the Hohenstaufen and Welf party alternating stood for her rights. In 1205 Adelaide could return to Prague for a while after Ottokar had signed an agreement with Philip of Swabia. Moreover, his first-born son with Constance of Hungary had died, and Ottokar
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issued by Philip of Swabia. Shortly after that, he repudiated his wife and also his adult son Vratislav. Ottokar was at least 40 at that time and risked losing the heir. Adelaide and her daughters again stayed in Meissen, while Vratislav became a mercenary in
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The Pope still used the pending lawsuit for leverage, but finally decided that the cessation of marriage was legal. Adelaide still struggled, though, in 1210, she had lost. She died one year later in her Meissen exile.
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Adelaide, however, had no intention to waive her rights nor to have her children considered as illegitimate. She began litigation in 1199, calling the Hohenstaufen family and
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and succeeded as Bohemian duke for the second time. He finally obtained the hereditary royal title according to the
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in this time. However, when Constance gave birth to another son, later king
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In 1199, King Ottokar divorced Adelaide, officially on the grounds of
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By the end of 1197, Ottokar came to terms with his younger brother
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Božislava (d. 6 Feb bef. 1238), married to Count Henry I of
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Adelaide was born about 1160 as the daughter of Margrave
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Shortly after the marriage, the couple could return to
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Vladislaus Henry: The Formation of Moravian Identity
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Index

Adelheid of Meissen
Adela of Meissen
Queen consort of Bohemia
Meissen
Margraviate of Meissen
Meissen
Ottokar I of Bohemia
Issue
Dagmar, Queen of Denmark
House
Wettin
Otto II, Margrave of Meissen
Hedwig of Brandenburg
Czech
German
House of Wettin
Queen of Bohemia
Ottokar I
Otto II of Meissen
Hedwig of Brandenburg
Ascanian
Albert the Bear
Přemyslid dynasty

Bohemia
Frederick
Moravian
Prague
Hohenstaufen
Henry VI

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