The Chronicle of the Czechs

Acknowledgments

ACKnoWleDGMenTs i undertook this as my “baby book” but was forced to complete it under unexpected, and frankly unjust, duress. Thus, while i still dedicate it to my girls, i owe a deep debt to the friends who came through in the crunch so selflessly. John Van engen, indefatigable and ever generous, read the first draft of the entire translation and much else besides, even at the expense of his own work. Jonathan lyon donated his expertise to identify the German noblemen Cosmas mentions. rachel Koopmans’s insights helped hone the introduction , as did input from Barbara Corrado Pope and erin rowe. Tom noble shepherded the volume into his series with enthusiasm and sympathy for the constraints imposed upon the project from outside. The unflinching support of my history Department colleagues in eugene kept my spirits up. i can only hope that this volume lives up to the faith that all these kind, smart people placed in it, and in me, at a juncture critical to both. At an earlier, more leisurely stage of the project, Tyler fall worked up preliminary translations of many chapters and thus helped get the translation truly under way. i must also thank Jitka sonková and the students in her slavic folklore class at the University of iowa; they read the first eight chapters of Book 1 in an early draft and provided helpful feedback on the translation’s accessibility. The readers for the Press, especially Piotr Gorecki, offered detailed comments that were of great help to the final editorial revision. steve Mcentee produced the beautiful maps. Many years ago now, Daniel sheerin taught me to read latin, coached me through Cosmas for the first time, and encouraged xi xii acknowledgMenTs me to undertake a translation someday. i will be glad if he is now chuckling at Cosmas’s pretensions as much as i remember him doing then. ian Mcneely, my inseparable companion in all things, helped with the babies, the book, and everything else. To say the very least, i thank him. Glogow Gniezno Meissen Magdeburg Verona Mainz Munster Cologne Trier Utrecht Regensburg Augsburg North Sea Adratic Sea Baltic Sea Bamberg Prague Olomouc Brno Nitra Esztergom Kamieniec Cracow E lbe R h i n e O der N y s a M o r a v a V i t a v a Danube Liège Litomerice Zatec Map 1. Central europe xiii Swin Meissen Gvozdec Donin Chlumec Litomerice Melnik Mlada Boleslav Hostivar Lsteni Zatec Ztibecna Krivoklat Stara Boleslav Rokycany Plzen Cham Wroclaw Elbe J i z e r a Ohre Mze Dyj e S v r a t k a Danub e H ron W a g M o r a va Ny s a Bobr Chynov Bechyne Netolice Doudleby Znojmo Pozsony Nitra Brno Olomouc Litomysl Chrudim Mt. Osek Habry Libice Lucice Dobenina Zercice Sadska Tynec Oldris Vraclav Banov Slivnice Sekyr Kostel Raabs Vranov Hradec Klodsko Kamieniec Niemcza Ryczyn Opocno Bardo Vysehrad Prague V l t a v a B O H E M I A M O R A V I A Map 2. The Czech lands xiv Ztibecna Libusin Prague Vysehrad Ohre Stadice Vlastislav Zatec Drahus Litomerice Libice Veliz V l t a v a Elbe Levy Hradec Mlada Boleslav Stara Boleslav Mt. Osek Map 3. Central Bohemia xv Bořivoj i vraTislav i václav i Boleslav i (d. 929) (929–967) Boleslav ii Doubravka Mlada/Maria strachkvas (Christian?) (967–999) (d. 977) Václav Boleslav iii jaroMír oldřich (d. y.) (999, d. 1037) (1004–12; d. 1037) (1012–37) BřeTislav i (1037–55) spiTihněv ii vraTislav ii conrad Jaromír/Gebhard otto (1055–61) (1061–92) (1092) Bp. Prague (d. 1086) (1068–90) BřeTislav ii Vratislav Judith ludmila Boleslav Bořivoj ii vladislav i soBěslav i oldřich lutold svaTopluk otto ii (1092–1100) (d. 1062) (d. 1091) (1100–7; (1109–17; (1125–40) (d. 1115) (d. 1115) (1107–9) (d. 1126) 1117–20) 1120–25) Břetislav svatava henry? figure 1. Přemyslid Genealogy (in accordance with the Chronicle) note: capiTals indicate dukes of Bohemia, with reign dates in parentheses. spiTihněv i xvi TaBle 1. Přemyslid Dukes of Bohemia Bořivoj i (ca. 894?) spitihněv i (?) Vratislav i (?) st. Václav i (?–929...