Wenceslaus II of Bohemia

Wenceslaus II (1271–1305), son of Ottokar II of Bohemia, inherited the crown when his father fell at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278. After years under Brandenburg regency he returned to Prague in 1283, married Judith of Habsburg in 1285, and took power in person after executing his stepfather Záviš of Falkenstein in 1290.

Wealth from the Kutná Hora silver mines produced the Prague groschen. Crowned king of Poland at Gniezno in 1300, he accepted the Hungarian crown for his son after the Árpád male line died out in 1301.

In 1304 he marched to Buda and brought his son and the crown back to Bohemia. He died in 1305, aged thirty-three.