The March or Margraviate of Moravia, sometimes called the Bohemian march within the Holy Roman Empire, was a marcher state, sometimes de facto independent and varyingly within the power of the Duchy and later Kingdom of Bohemia. It comprised the region called Moravia within the modern Czech Republic.

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  • The March or Margraviate of Moravia, sometimes called the Bohemian march within the Holy Roman Empire, was a marcher state, sometimes de facto independent and varyingly within the power of the Duchy and later Kingdom of Bohemia. It comprised the region called Moravia within the modern Czech Republic. The march was originally established, like its fellow marches — Austria, Styria, Carniola, and Carinthia — in the first half of the tenth century on land that had formerly been part of Great Moravia, a Slav state. When the Magyars were successfully defeated and were no longer a threat in the second half of the 900s, a new threat in the north of Moravia appeared: that of the Bohemians. In 955, the Bohemian duke Boleslaus I allied with the Emperor Otto I to defeat the Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld. Following the victory, Boleslaus received Moravia. Boleslaus I of Poland annexed Moravia in 999 and ruled it until 1019, when the Bohemian prince Bretislaus recaptured it. Upon his father's death in 1035, Bretislaus also became the ruler of Bohemia. In 1054, Bretislaus decreed that the Bohemian and Moravian lands would be inherited together by agnatic seniority, although he also provided that his younger sons should govern parts of Moravia as vassals to his oldest son. After that date, the march of Moravia was a Bohemian possession bestowed as a quasi-independent appanage on the younger sons of the Bohemian sovereigns. This appanage was usually held by dukes. Because, of course, there were multiple younger sons at any given moment, the Duchy of Moravia was usually divided into two (varyingly) independent duchies (marches): Brno and Olomouc. Sometimes Znojmo too was the centre of a duchy. In 1182 Frederick Barbarossa intervened in Bohemian affairs to prevent any succession disputed by elevating Moravia to the status of a margraviate. This status was short-lived: in 1197, Vladislaus III of Bohemia resolved the succession dispute between him and his brother Ottokar by abdicating from the Bohemian throne and accepting the margraviate of Moravia as a vassal of Bohemia.
  • Moravské markrabství či Markrabství moravské byl v letech 1182–1918 oficiální název Moravy. Šlo o politický útvar vybavený v průběhu historie různou mírou autonomie s vlastním stavovským zemským sněmem (oficiálně ustaveným v polovině 14. století) a (později) zemským výborem.
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  • The March or Margraviate of Moravia, sometimes called the Bohemian march within the Holy Roman Empire, was a marcher state, sometimes de facto independent and varyingly within the power of the Duchy and later Kingdom of Bohemia. It comprised the region called Moravia within the modern Czech Republic.
  • Moravské markrabství či Markrabství moravské byl v letech 1182–1918 oficiální název Moravy. Šlo o politický útvar vybavený v průběhu historie různou mírou autonomie s vlastním stavovským zemským sněmem (oficiálně ustaveným v polovině 14. století) a (později) zemským výborem.
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  • March of Moravia
  • Markrabství moravské
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