Margaret of Bohemia (* 1296), daughter of the Bohemian King Wenceslas II and Judith of Habsburg, died 690 years ago, on April 8th 1322. From the age of 7 she was the wife of the 12-year-old Bolesław III of Legnica, and is remembered as a Bohemian princess and the princess of Legnica.
Her marriage was political, as the groom’s guardian and trustee of his lands was the Bohemian king and Margaret’s father, Wenceslas II.
Margaret was Wenceslas’ third daughter, and after the assassination of Margaret’s brother Wenceslas III (1306), her husband had little chance of attaining the Bohemian throne. However, to be fair, unlike her elder sisters and the widow of Wenceslas II, Elisabeth Richeza, Margaret did not get involved in the struggle for the throne.
Her husband Boleslav did not receive a dowry, but in 1308 took the Opava region instead. However, he enjoyed this for just 3 years. In April 1311 he made a pact with the new king, John of Bohemia, resigning his wife’s claim, and sold the Opava region back to Nicholas of Bohemia for 8,000 grzywnas on 11th June of that year. Thus Bolesław of Legnica became an ally of King John and in 1321−1322 was even the trustee of the Bohemian kingdom in the king’s absence. It was during this time that Margaret died, aged 26, after the birth of her third son. She was buried with him in the monastery in Zbraslav. But Bolesław moved on and in 1326 married Kateřina Šubić, daughter of the Croatian Ban Mladen II.
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