Wenceslaus III of Bohemia
Wenceslaus III Premyslid (
Czech Václav), (
October 6,
1289 -
August 4,
1306). King of
Hungary (
1301 -
1305). King of
Bohemia (
1305 -
1306). Wenceslaus III was the son of
Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia and
Poland and Judith von Habsburg, the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor
Rudolf I. His father accepted the crown of Hungary on his behalf in 1301. Wenceslaus III was unable to assert his power in Hungary and relinquished the crown to Otto, Duke of
Bavaria, in
1305. Wenceslaus III, however, wanted to claim his hereditary right to the Polish throne, but was murdered in
Olomouc,
Moravia on August 4, 1306 while on his way to
Poland to be crowned. Wenceslaus was the last of the
Premyslid rulers of Bohemia. His sister, Elizabeth (Eliska), heiress of Bohemia, married
John "The Blind" of Luxembourg.
See also: Kings of Hungary, Dukes and Kings of Bohemia