Dubé

The Lords of Dubá were a lineage of the Ronovci, one of the oldest noble families of Bohemia whose power base lay around Česká Lípa. Taking their name from their seat at Dubá, they spread into the Boleslav region and held castles such as Houska, where Hynáček of Dubá is recorded in 1316.

The house produced several branches, above all the Berka of Dubá, founded by Hynek Berka of Dubá between 1249 and 1306. The Berkas counted Zbyněk Berka of Dubá, archbishop of Prague from 1592 to 1606, among their members.

After the defeat of the Bohemian estates at the White Mountain in 1620, the Berkas were raised to imperial counts in 1637. The line died out in the Czech lands early in the eighteenth century, its exiled descendants continuing in Saxony and Sweden.