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1255
 
Ottokar carried on a successful campaign in support of the Teutonic Knights against the heathen Prussians.  1
 
1260
 
After defeating the Hungarians, Ottokar took from them the province of Styria.  2
 
1269
 
Ottokar, taking advantage of the interregnum in the German Empire, extended his power over Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria.  3
 
1273
 
Election of Rudolf of Habsburg as king of Germany. Ottokar refused to recognize him. The Diet of Regensburg (1274) therefore declared all Ottokar's acquisitions void. The king, supported by the Hungarians and by some of the Bohemian nobility, attacked Ottokar, who agreed to give up all but Bohemia and Moravia, and to recognize Rudolf's suzerainty even over these.  4
 
1278
 
New war between Rudolf and Ottokar. Ottokar was decisively defeated on the Marchfeld (Aug. 26) and killed.  5
 
1278–1305
 
Rule of Wenceslas (Vaclav) II, a boy of seven, for whom Otto of Brandenburg at first acted as regent.  6
 
1300
 
Wenceslas was elected and crowned king of Poland.  7
 
1301
 
His son, Wenceslas, was elected king of Hungary (ruled to 1304).  8
 
1305–6
 
Wenceslas (Vaclav) III. He gave up the claim to Hungary and was murdered while en route to Poland to suppress a revolt of the nobles. End of the Premyslid line. (See Bohemia)  9
 
 
 
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