Boček II Of Poděbrady
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Boček II of Poděbrady (also: ''Boček II of Kunštát and Poděbrady''; or or ; or or ; died: 1417) may have been treasurer or even chief treasurer of
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between 1377 and 1387. Between 1403 and 1408, he held the office of ("chief administrator") of Bohemia.


Life

It is not known when and where Boček II was born. His parents were Boček I of Poděbrady and Elisabeth of Lichtemburk (; ), a daughter of Henry of Lichtenburg at Žleby Castle. Boček was named after the founder of the
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branch of the House of Kunštát. Boček is sometimes called "the Elder", to contrast him with his son Boček III of Poděbrady, who was called "Boček the Younger". Boček II is first mentioned in a deed of 1375, about the division of the inheritance of his father, who died in 1373. Since Boček II was the first born, he inherited the larger part of his father's possessions, which were mostly in eastern Bohemia. In 1376 he received Lipnice as a fief from the King Charles IV of Bohemia. In 1377, he transferred the Lordship of Potštát to his wife Anna Elisabeth as a dowry. Between 1377 and 1387, he may have held the position of Treasurer or Chief Treasurer of Bohemia.This is questioned in recent research. See: Ondřej Felcman et al., p. 55 In 1387 Boček II and Půta II of Častolovice bought the Lordship of Skuhrov nad Bělou and Rychmberk Castle in the foothills of the Orlické hory mountains from the brothers Jan and Jaroslav of České Meziříčí. During the reign of King
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, Boček II was initially on his side, but later turned away from him. In 1394 he was among the
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who signed the initiative of the Margrave
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, a joint statement with which they turned against the king, who was eventually captured. Presumably in return for this support, Margrave Jobst gave Boček possessions in
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. In 1402 he supported King Wenceslaus again, in that he was against the candidacy of Wenceslaus brother
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. This is probably why he received the position of ''Oberstlandschreiber'' (chief administrator) of Bohemia in 1403. He also was chairman of the manorial court and member of the royal Council. Thanks to a mutual inheritance treaty from 1385 between Boček and his relative Gerhard of Kunštát, Boček II was able to strengthen his position in Moravia after Gerhard's death in 1406. From Gerhards he inherited among others
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, Bouzov,
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, Pyšolec Castle,
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, Týnec na Moravě and Velké Bílovice. He sold some of these possessions soon afterwards. In early 1415, Boček II signed a
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, in which the high Bohemian nobles protested against the capture of
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. Later that year, after Hus was burned at the stake, Boček was the third noble to sign a letter of complaint by the Bohemian nobility. Also in 1415, Boček acquired the Lordships of
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and Hummel in Eastern Bohemia from Henry of Lazan, in exchange for the South Bohemian Lordship of
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. Since the latter still belonged to Bohemia, Boček came geographically closer to the
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, which would be very important to his descendants and would serve as a county seat and seat of power to the sons of
George of Poděbrady George of Kunštát and Poděbrady (23 April 1420 – 22 March 1471), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad (; ), was the sixteenth King of Bohemia, who ruled in 1458–1471. He was a leader of the Hussites, but moderate and tolerant toward the ...
. They would become counts of Kladsko, and as Dukes of Münsterberg they would found the Silesian (Münsterberg-Oels) branch of the
Poděbrady family The Bohemian Poděbrady family () was a noble family in Bohemia, arising from the Lords of Kunštát. After Boček I of Poděbrady, Boček of Kunštát (d. 1373) had acquired the Lordship of Poděbrady by marriage, he called himself "Boček of ...
.


Marriage and offspring

Boček II was married with Anna Elisabeth Lipa (), a daughter of Henry of Leipa (). The couple had four sons: # John (; ; died circa 1408), married in 1398 with Elisabeth of Wartenberg () # Boček III of Poděbrady, (d. 1429) #
Hynek Boček of Poděbrady Hynek Boček of Poděbrady (also known as: ''Hynek of Poděbrady'' or ''Hynek Boček of Kunštát and Poděbrady''; or ; died 16 October 1426 in Nymburk) was a Bohemian-Moravian nobleman and follower of the Hussites. Life Hynek was a member ...
(d. 1426), married N. N. of Žerotín # Victor of Kunštát and Poděbrady (1403–1427), married Anna of Wartenberg ()


References

*Ondřej Felcman, Radek Fukala, ''et al.'': ''Poděbradové. Rod českomoravských pánů, kladských hrabat a sleszkých knížat''. Nakladatelství Lidové Noviny 2008, .


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Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bocek 02 Of Podebrady Podiebrad family 14th-century births 1417 deaths Year of birth uncertain 15th-century nobility from Bohemia