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Hynek Berka Of Dubá
Hynek Berka of Dubá ( cs, Hynek Berka z Dubé; c. 1297 – 1348) was a Bohemian knight and founder of the Berka of Dubá aristocracy line. In 1320 he had the Kokořín Castle built. Relatives * Adam Berka of Dubá *Zbyněk Berka of Dubá Zbyněk Berka of Dubá ( cs, Zbyněk Berka z Dubé; 1551 – 6 March 1606) was a Catholic cleric, cardinal and the tenth Archbishop of Prague. He was member of the Berka of Dubá family. He was grand master of the religious order of Knights of t ... References 14th-century Bohemian people {{Czech-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohemia
Bohemia ( ; cs, Čechy ; ; hsb, Čěska; szl, Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic. Bohemia can also refer to a wider area consisting of the historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown ruled by the Bohemian kings, including Moravia and Czech Silesia, in which case the smaller region is referred to as Bohemia proper as a means of distinction. Bohemia was a duchy of Great Moravia, later an independent principality, a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire, and subsequently a part of the Habsburg monarchy and the Austrian Empire. After World War I and the establishment of an independent Czechoslovak state, the whole of Bohemia became a part of Czechoslovakia, defying claims of the German-speaking inhabitants that regions with German-speaking majority should be included in the Republic of German-Austria. Between 1938 and 1945, these border regions were joined to Nazi Germany as the Sudetenland. The remainder of Czech territory became the Second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Greek ''hippeis'' and '' hoplite'' (ἱππεῖς) and Roman '' eques'' and ''centurion'' of classical antiquity. In the Early Middle Ages in Europe, knighthood was conferred upon mounted warriors. During the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior. Often, a knight was a vassal who served as an elite fighter or a bodyguard for a lord, with payment in the form of land holdings. The lords trusted the knights, who were skilled in battle on horseback. Knighthood in the Middle Ages was closely linked with horsemanship (and especially the joust) from its origins in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berka Of Dubá
Berka of Dubá ( cs, Berka z Dubé) was a cadet branch of a Bohemian noble family of Lords of Dubá established by Hynek Berka of Dubá (1249–1306). It held estates in what is today the Czech Republic and Saxony in Germany throughout the Middle Ages. Domanial Houska, Bělá pod Bezdězem, Bezděz, Lemberk, Dubá, Zákupy, Milštejn, Tolštejn, Kokořín, Kuřívody, Berštejn, Mühlberg (until the 15th century), Herrschaft Hohnstein (Saxony) – given in exchange for Mühlberg to the House of Wettin in 1443. End of line After the Battle of White Mountain on 8 November 1620, many of the members were expelled together with the King Frederick I and domanials were confiscated. One of the family members, loyal to the Emperor Ferdinand II, was created an Imperial Count in 1637. Line died off in the 18th century, some descendants of expellees after the Battle of White Mountain remained in Sweden and in Saxony during 18th and 19th centuries. Notable members * Zbyněk B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokořín Castle
Kokořín Castle ( cs, Hrad Kokořín) is a castle located in Kokořín in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It was built in the first half of the 14th century by order of Hynek Berka of Dubá. It was heavily damaged during the Hussite Wars and stood in ruins until the reconstruction campaign of 1911–1918. It was nationalized in 1948 and has been designated a national cultural landmark since 2001. The Kokořínsko – Máchův kraj Protected Landscape Area takes its name from this castle. History In 1426, Hussites, Hussite troops captured and destroyed the castle. After the Hussite Wars, the castle often changed owners (in the 15th century, Řitka from Bezdědice and the Lords of Klinštejn, Klinštějns, in the 16th century, the Beřkov family from Šebířov and Kaplířová). Since 1544 it was listed as deserted.Dvořáček, P.: Putování po hradech a zámcích, Olomouc 2000, p. 92. Its fate was made even worse by the decision of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Berka Of Dubá
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including ''adam'', meaning humankind; in God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and lists his descendants from Seth to Noah. The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations in later Judaism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbyněk Berka Of Dubá
Zbyněk Berka of Dubá ( cs, Zbyněk Berka z Dubé; 1551 – 6 March 1606) was a Catholic cleric, cardinal and the tenth Archbishop of Prague. He was member of the Berka of Dubá family. He was grand master of the religious order of Knights of the Cross with the Red Star. Biography Zbyněk Berka of Dubá was born in Dřevěnice in 1551, the son of Zdeněk Berka of Dubá and his wife Katharina Haugwitz. Being born into the House of Berka of Dubá, he was a member of the Bohemian nobility. He was educated with the Jesuits at Prague and Olomouc. He then attended the University of Kraków, where he received a licentiate in theology. Next, he studied at the University of Ingolstadt, receiving a doctorate in theology. He was ordained as a priest in Prague in 1574. Shortly thereafter, he became a canon of Salzburg Cathedral, St. Vitus Cathedral, Stará Boleslav Cathedral, Olomouc Cathedral, Litoměřice Cathedral, Regensburg Cathedral, and Oetting Cathedral. In 1574, he became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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