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Zdeněk Lev Of Rožmitál
Zdeněk Lev of Rožmitál (, ; – 14 July 1535) was a Bohemian nobleman. He belonged to the estate of the Lords (''páni''), the highest rank of the Bohemian titled nobility, and held the offices of High Judge and High Burgrave of Prague. He was a member of the aristocratic Lev of Rožmitál family and was one of the most influential noblemen in the country during the reign of Kings Vladislaus II and Louis II. Life His father, Jaroslav Lev of Rožmitál, was a brother-in-law of King George of Poděbrady. Zdeněk belonged to the Catholic party in the Czech peerage. When he was 26 years old, he took part in public negotiations with the Hungarian king. From 1498 to 1504 he was a viscount of Karlštejn. In 1504, he was appointed the High Court Judge of the Kingdom of Bohemia and 1507 he was finally appointed as High Burgrave of Prague. In this position, Zdeněk administered Bohemia, as King Vladislaus II spent most of his time in Hungary. He primarily represented t ...
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Lev Of Rožmitál
Lev of Rožmitál (, ) was a Bohemian nobility, Bohemian noble family. They named themselves after the Rožmitál Castle. They held the castles Rožmitál pod Třemšínem Castle, Rožmitál, Blatná and Buzice. History This family came of an ancient and noble Buzici clan – boyars, members of higher Slavic nobility. Omeljan Pritsak concluded in research about the Attila clan of the Hunnic Empire that the religious suffix 'sig' when combined with Hunnic 'Buz' would mean "Wild Boar like-man", a symbol in the family emblem. In addition she thinks that the movement of the Slavs in Europe is accompanied under the leadership of the ruling class of Huns, whose language gradually melted into Slavonic. Greatest power has the family in the 15th century. In the days of King George of Poděbrady, of King Vladislaus II of Hungary and his successor King Louis II of Hungary, they were one of the most influential families in the Kingdom of Bohemia. The last effort to keep the power of the family ...
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