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- Vratislaus I or Wratislaus I (Czech: Vratislav I) (c.888 ? February 13, 921), Duke of Bohemia (915 ? 921), was the younger brother of Spytihnev I and the son of Borivoj I.
Vratislaus had two sons, Wenceslaus and Boleslaus (also called Boleslaw I). Strezislava, the wife of the important Bohemian nobleman Slavnik (founder of Slavnik's dynasty), is also by some historians supposed to be a daughter of Vratislaus. He was married to Drahomira, a Bohemian duchess, she is the mother of Boleslaus I of Bohemia. It is not certain that Drahomira is the mother of the elder son Wenceslas.
Drahomira's homeland was around Brandenburg, a castle near present-day Berlin. She was princess of the Havolans. The Hevelli or Hevellians (sometimes Havolane; German: Heveller or Stodoranen; Polish: Hawelanie or Stodoranie; Czech: Havolan? or Stodoran?) were a Slavic tribe who lived around the river Havel in the Havelland area of Brandenburg in eastern Germany from the 8th century onwards.
The Chronicle of Fulda reports that in 900 the Bavarians attacked Moravia in alliance with the Bohemians. Vratislaus died (possibly in 919, although 921 is more often conjectured) in battle against the Magyars. After Vratislav's death, Drahomira and her mother-in-law, Ludmila, divided the government of Bohemia. The elder son, Wenceslaus, was brought up by his grandmother, Ludmila, who raised him as a Christian.
Popular history depicts Ludmila as a restrained and pious woman, but it is likely that the political demands of government called for more energy and worldliness than history records. Wenceslas was one of the main reasons for the eventually fatal discord between Drahomira and Ludmila. According to some legends, having regained control of her son, Drahomira set out to convert him to the old pagan religion. According to other legends she was herself a Christian. Very little is known about her rule.
A dispute between the fervently Christian regent and her daughter-in-law drove Ludmila to seek sanctuary at Tetin castle near Beroun. Drahomira, who was trying to garner support from the nobility, was furious about losing influence on her son and arranged to have Ludmila strangled by hired assassins, Tunna and Gommon, at Tetin on September 15, 921. When Wenceslas came to power he sent his mother into exile, though he later called her back. Drahomira died sometime after 935.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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888 - 921 (~ 33 år)
