Soběslav or Soběbor (c. 950 – 1004) was a

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nobleman, the brother of Saint

Adalbert of Prague Adalbert of Prague (, , , , ; 95623 April 997), known in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia by his birth name Vojtěch (), was a Czech missionary and Christian saint. He was the Bishop of Prague and a missionary to the Hungarians, Poles, ...

(Vojtěch), son of Střezislava and

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and a friend of Polish king, Boleslaus the Brave. He was equally powerful as the Přemyslid dynasty in his time, to whom he took a rather confrontational attitude. Even minting his own coinage, which had previously been the privilege of the Přemyslid court in Prague. Presumably the minting of coins began to take place after the episcopal election of Vojtěch. Likely in 995, fighting occurred between

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and Přemyslid dynasty soldiers. This prompted Soběslav to take his grudge against the Přemyslids to the Emperor. While he was in

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, on the 27th or the 28th of September, Přemyslid soldiers attacked the Slavník stronghold of

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killing all members of the Slavník dynasty present. Soběslav then took part in a Imperial expedition against pagan

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, and then went to Boleslaus the Brave to obtain sanctuary in

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. In 1004, Soběslav led the Charváts tribe and died on a bridge over the

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river in

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in a battle between a Polish force retreating after besieging

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, and an Imperial-cum-Bohemian expeditionary force.

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