Jaromír (after 1035 – 26 June 1090) was the Bishop of Prague from 1068, when he was appointed by his brother,

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. The two were both sons of Duke

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In 1063, Vratislaus established a diocese at

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and raised John, a monk of

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, to the see. Jaromír was resentful of the loss of tithes and fiefs and the brothers entered into a long rivalry. Jaromír even attacked the new bishop of Olomouc and carried off by force of arms the relics which had been removed from Prague to the new see. Vratislaus, for his part, spited his brother by wearing his episcopal vestments—an honour conferred by the pope for the price of 100 marks per annum—in his brother's presence at

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sent the

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Rudolph to hold a diet in Prague in response to the conflicts surrounding the new see. Jaromír did not attend and was deposed. Gregory VII summoned the bishops to

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. At an Easter synod in 1074, Jaromír confessed his ill-treatment of John, but refused to yield Podvin. Gregory ordered that Vratislaus should remove his brother by force if necessary. Jaromír was an ally of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV during the

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. Jaromír was appointed chancellor by Henry and took the name Gebhard in 1077. In 1085, John died, and a '' Reichstag'' convened in

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to suppress the

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n see, re-uniting it to Prague by Jaromír's insistence. Vratislaus fell out with Henry over the loss of

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and raised his chaplain Wecel to Olomouc as Bishop Andrew I. Jaromír went to Rome to protest to

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. He was preparing to fight Wecel at

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when he died.

Ancestry

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