Bohemiae Regnum Electiuum THAT IS A PLAINE AND TRVE RELATION OF the proceeding of the STATES of BOHEMIA from the first foundation of that Prouince by Free Election of Princes and Kings vnto FERDINAND the eighteenth King of the house of Austria WHEREIN IS EVIDENTLY MANIfested that the first Princes were Elected and no true and simple Hereditary Succession esta blished nor practised in all that time containing about 900. yeares Taken out of vnpartiall and Classicque Authors ESDRAS 1.4.37.38 All other things perish in their vnrighteousnesse But Truth it endureth and is alwaies strong it liueth and conquereth for euermore MDCXX A PLAINE AND TRVE RELATION OF the proceeding of the States of BOHEMIA THE Triumph that I heard sung aloud of the strength and solidnesse of argument in a little Information sent abroad almost in the darke to beguile the friends thereof Maintaining the Kingdome of Bohemia to be successiue and by consequence rightly descended to the house of Austria at first so farre preiudiced mee as to thinke so much confidence and boldnesse was supported with great probability of truth And I confesse that little pile as it stands compacted and involued hath in it selfe a faire show vntill it bee taken in peeces and searched at the Corner Stones Desire of mine owne satisfaction first made me curious to looke into the best Records of Story of that Country I found the Authors such as without exception for their quality iudgement and meanes to know the truth no dispaffionate man could refuse They doe relate barely what was done and practised without fore-thinking to decide a question which in their times could not be fore-seene and was the least part of their designe and therefore their witnesse as vn-concerned therein is of more authority When I had informed my selfe I learned of Saint Paul to settle my Brethren who for want of my leisure could not intend such a perplexed search and might for zeale and loue of truth be miscarried with that which was first propounded to them for truth I doe not intend to answer the Informatoâ— from point to point but to warne you that he hath taken aduantages and forcibly drawne into his purpose fragments and pieces the whole whereof would be too heauy for his foundation and as his stuffe is so are his vses and applications wrested made crooked not one grown Timber among them I haue therfore vndertaken in a plaine Narration to shew the first Election of the Princes of Bohemia the continuance and practice of Free Election vnto Ferdinand of Austria 34. from Breâ—tâ—l â—2 That not one in all that series of so manie Princes and Kings did succeed in right of Inheritance simply nor did dare so to claime an admittance to that Scepter In which discourse I desire you to consider not so much the efficacy of euery proofe of Election singly which notwithstanding is an irrefragable euidence as the whole file and thred purpose and practice of the States and free people of that Kingdome for power and affection may sometimes obscure and slacken the stiffnesse but yet in euery age and change more or lesse the right hath broken forth and stood for it selfe I haue not thought it fit to trouble you with latter times in which the house of Austria hath beene preferred and haue claimed a succession of right from a succession of Loue and so haue lost their best title It is euident in all Electiue kingdomes that the Sonne of the Father hath beene chosen for hee was already set vpon the stage and was borne Candidatus So was it often practized in the Empire without preiudice to the right of Election in any family when there vvas iust cause to change As Galba noted of Augustus I lle in Domo successorem quae siuit ego in Republica Tac. hist lib. 1. But if that Electiue succession be pretended and an answere heere expected I say it is out of my purpose who wade only in the History of former ages and it is more proper for them to satisfie who can search the Archiues and Records of their owne Acts but for a generall answere we propound that we dare ioyne issue euen in these and be iudged by the Registers of the publike assemblies vpon euery Election and by the Defesall and Reuersall letters giuen by those Princes of Austria their own Acts acknowledging the free Election and good will of the States of Bohemia sine vlla alia obligatione To lay our owne foundation sure and conspicuous I first present this definition of a Kingdome successiue That the Crowne and all the Rights of Regality doe de Iure descend vnto the next Prince or Princesse of the bloud Royall in right Line And that it is as great an Interruption of succession that a younger House bee preferred as that a Stranger and that the States and people haue no right to put by or refuse the next in bloud vpon any pretence and these rules establish and limit a Kingdome successiue But that this Canon hath neuer taken place nor beene practised by the Bohemians I shew in these fiue Conclusions 1. That the first Princes of Bohemia were Elected and the forme of their Election recorded 2. That the practice of Election hath continued so that the Yonger Brethren haue beene preferred before the Elder the Vncle before the Nephew sonne to the elder brother the Cosen of the yonger House before Cosen of the elder the Husband of the yonger sister before the Husband of the elder 3. Meere stangers before daughters and sisters of the last Kings and before any of the Bloud 4. The power and practice of deposition or reiection in case of misgouernment or want of due Forme in Election 5. That almost all the Kings that haue immediatelie succeeded their Fathers haue beene Elected and Crowned during the Fathers life or chosen Marquesses of Morauia a step to the Crowne by the authority of the Father in possession or for his merit and memory dead so that no such succession hath been pure de Iure but ayded and grounded vpon other rights then of succession All which examples and Rules doe diametrally oppugne and ouerthrow the pretence of Hereditary Succession and consequently proue for there is not one Prince without the reach of one of these Rules Bohemiae Regnum esse Electinum Crocus after Zechius who setled his Colonies in Bohemia was made there Iudge by the people for his vertue Geor. Barthold Boh pia pag. 11. Crocus vir Iustus magnae apud Bohemos tunc temporis opinionis authoritatis princeps dilectus est vir hic fuit Iudiciorum in deliberatione discretus Cosm Prag Chron. pag. 4. ad quem tam de proprijs tribubus quam ex totius prouinciae plebtbus velut apes ad alueria ita omnes ad dirimenda conuolabant Iudicia Crocus had three daughters Kari eldest Tethka second Lubossa third and yongest Cosm Prag pag. 4.5 6. This last for her wise dome was by the
aderat variantibus as yet no mention make of any right in the daughters Tobias Bechinus who fauoured the strangers sons of Albert to crosse the aduerse party who would not accept them saith Quando non alium Regem quam Boemum creare libet Regiaque progenies in Boemia planê deficiat reuert amur ad Pagum stadium vnde Primislaus ex rustico priamus in Boemia factus est Princeps atque indidem nos quoque Regem nobis adciscamus Yet that was not his desire but onely to diuert the Election which vtterly ouerthrowes the pretended Contract with the house of Austria for hee being of that party should haue pleaded it if he had knowne it or had thought it of force not haue returned to an originall Election which fully annihilated the Contract but it seems Tobias knew nothing of it And so hee also reiects the sisters for that was his end esteeming them no heyres though they were ex progeniê Regia concluded they might lawfully elect a stranger in bloud This motion was reiected not that they might elect a stranger but because the other side vnderstood his craft that he would obtrude a German hatefull to the Bohemians and so he was commanded without further Prefaces to nominate one in a faire Election He as Chamberlayne of Boheme prefers first Rodolph and then his brother Fredericke sonnes of Albert Quo audito Crussina Lychtemburgus Quousque tandem inquit nobis ingeres tuos Germanos Regum nostrorum parricidas nec plura locutus stringit gladium Thobiam transfodit The next day the two sisters Anna married to Carinthia Elizabeth a maid come into the Court not as heyres or ant ve sui haberi rationem ne velut alienae a Regno praetereantur And Henry the Husband of Anne vvas chosen King but he could not hold it for the Emperour stood for his Sonne not by a Contract but as preuayling in Election and vpon that onely grounds his Title to place him by force Caefare alacriter instante ne filius sâ—ns qui priores partes in suffragijs tulerat posteriores in Regno acquirendo ferret He enters Bohemia vvith an Army Henry of Carinthia and his wife giue way and so he fortifies the election of Rodolph and Crownes him a meere stranger in bloud or other title but the Election pretended Rodolph dies Dubrauius reekons Fredoricke as elected other doe not and Henrie of Carinthia returnes with his Wife In which interim the Emperour endeuors the Election of Fredericke his second sonne but is slaine before hee could effect it and then these were receiued with great Ioy After three or foure yeares the Bohemians grew weary of Henries gouernment and sent Ambassadors to Henry of Luxenburgh then Emperor to send his sonne Iohn to marry Elizabeth the yonger sister to Anne and Wenceslaus the seuenth and that they would elect him King The Emperor accepts it and married Iohn at Spire The Bohemians deposed Henry for ill gouernment as Bartoldus notes Geor. Barthold pag. 24. Hunc Boemi sibi Regem deligunt sed quia male administrauit miserune ad Caesarem Henricum sextum Legatos suos So was Iohn of Luxenburgh Elected a stranger also in bloud for he could pretend no right by his wife in Succession Anne the elder sister liuing Concerning the contract made betweene Boheme and Austria the elder stories speake nothing of it Albert of Austria declared not the pretence Dubrau p. 180. but strengthens the Election of his owne sonnes by making a faction by mariage of Elizabeth the widdow of Venceslaus And Hieronimo Canini in his history of the Election of the Roman Kings Hieron Canini pag. 211. cites that such an accord was made That for want of heyres in eyther House the other should succeed but withall notes Encore que le Royaume soyt a l'Election des Barons des seigneurs du pays which beeing cleerely confessed an accord made betweene them for their owne aduantage to the preiudice of the freedome of Bohemia could not be auaileable nor was euer confirmed by practice in succession Iohn of Luxenburgh is chosen and is a great Prince he begins indeed to seeke to establish the Kingdome in his Lyne and in his life-time practiseth to exchange it with Lewis Duke of Bauare which it is like he affected to leaue them to the fortune of Election which is a taeite confession of the right in the States to Elect when it was reuealed to the Bohemians they tooke it in so ill part that hee should by a secret practice infringe their liberty or seeme to haue right to obtrude a King vpon them at his choyce that they almost reuolted against him and would not be reconciled vntill a copy of the treaty was shewed that he did nothing but with reseruation of the consent of the States to confirme it The words of Dubrauiuâ— are considerable Dubrau p. 193. Sed longè omnium maximuÌ„ odiuÌ„ sibi ab omnibus or dinibus conflauit inchoatâ cuÌ„ Lodonico permutatione qua regnuÌ„ pro Bauariae principatu commutare voluit At Boemi in deteriorem partem interpretati funt quasi illos Rex vendere Germanis prodcre cuperet Ergo omnes in vnum conspirant vt pereant potius quam non perdant illos qui ad exitium Patriae corum immineant At que haec turba maior visa quam vt pacart vel ipso rege praesente potuerit nisi pacata esset spes de retinendo ei regno decollabat So that this feare of Iohn confesseth a forfeiture and a power to depose him and then hee procures the Emperor to come in person to the Confines of Bohemia where at the towne of Luticium the Emperor thus excuses the King Illic in maxima Bohemorum frequentia Regem illorum de tam graui suspitione qualem de illo haberent testimonio suo expurgat pactionemque illis quam cum Rege inire caeperat scriptum ostendit in qua diserte aperteque appositum erat ita illaÌ„ ratam firmam fore si communi Bohemorum assensu confirmata fuerit So iealous were they then of their right that nothing could appease them but the sight of his owne agnition of the validity of their consent in transferring the kingdome Iohn caused his sonne Charles Dubrau P. 201. to bee admitted Marquesse of Morauia in his life time an halfe election as in the Empire the King of Romans and a step to the kingdome And indeed he was so fauoured of the Bohemians for his valour witte and skill in tongues that his admittance was easily procured yea hee was so fauoured of the Bohemians Idem 202. that his Father suspected and feared him Soone after hee was chosen King of the Romanes at Bon and now it was not easie for the Bohemians to refuse him if they would for he preuailed in vniuersall loue Charles in his life laboured all he could to settle the Kingdome in his issue and to that end in confirming the
sons Rodolph and Fredericke To vnfold all these Contradictions we must returne to the truth of Story These neither of his sisters had nor claimed right But the Bohemians alwaies respectiue to the descendents of their Kings first Elected the husband of Anne the eldest and after reiecting him for misgouernment called in Iohn of Luxenburgh And though they gaue him Elizabeth to bee his Wife they plainly chose him for their King Next he tells vs Ibid. Wenceslaus the sonne of Charles at three yeares of age was Crowned King by his Fathers Command absque vlla requisitione statuum That negatiue is not proued and I aske no more Inference against it and that which it concludes quod Iure successionis then his owne words his Father commanded it which if you make gentler and say as the truth is he desired it wee are agreed for to command it if he had right was vnnecessary to entreat and procure it not so hauing no right I omit his boldnesse contrary to good authority Idem pag. 3. to auerre that Albert of Austria claymed the kingdome in right of Elizabeth when it is euident that Sigismund at his death presented him to the States by vehement words of recommendation and the imputation cast vpon the Ashes of Podiebrad whom indeed hee hates for against his Election stands no exception and descend to the onely clayme that the daughters were true heyres to proue which he auerrs that Cassimir of Poland pretended right to the Kingdome at the Election of Podiebrad which is vtterly false and that Podiebrad preuailed by a faction of a few against the more powerfull of the States which is in it selfe absurd brands Pope Calixtus his approbation for neuer was any King chosen with more vniuersal applause But admit all that true the Conclusion to be proued is That the Kingdome did descend in right to a Daughter and so after Podiebrad the sonne of Cassimir was admitted to vse his owne words The kingdome did returne to the ordinary succession de Iure was it ordinary that the younger did succeed Was not Anne married to the Duke of Saxe the Elder and heyre if there were a right of Succession Was Anne deposed by any Emperour or any Decree against her if not what clayme had the sonne of Elizabeth against his Aunt and her issue And how by the right and vigour of their priuiledges did the kingdome appertaine to the younger in bloud But we see these daughters Titles pieced up to confirme the claime of Ferdinand by Anne the sister of Ladislaus which hee at his owne Election durst not trust vnto Lastly he preferres to vs the Letters or Bulls of Fredericke Charles Ferdinand and Vladislâ—us to entaile the Kingdome to the Princes of the bloud but none of these to the next in bloud which formes a succession but at large that any of the bloud may be chosen and to that of greatest force which seemes exclusiue when none of the bloud shall remaine the words following are or by any other meanes when the Crowne shall bee voyd which must needs be by death of any in possession But we say that in the golden Bull of Charles he not onely excepts his Kingdom of Bohemia and the right of the States to choose their King whomsoeuer they will Onaph Aurea Bulla 431. in any vacancy but also confirmes that right so that no Constitution Regall nor Imperiall Aurea Bulla pag. 481. shall bee of force against it and this in words direct and vehement So that whatsoeuer could follow for the aduantage of any particular House could not preiudice an Ancient and Fundamentall Right of a whole Kingdome and the practice hereof is the safest and best Interpretor I haue presented the Truth naked and simply If it do any man seruice I am glad if not I am glad that I haue learned it for my selfe FINIS
people chosen a Princesse or Iudge There fell out a controuersie betweene two Bohemians about the limits of their ground which Lubossa ended by sentence The party displeased and condemned being enraged renounced the Iudgement disdaining it from that sexe and thereby tooke occasion to demand a man to gouerne Lubossa was vnwilling to let goe the Reynes and first threatens what and how violent the dominion of man would proue Geor. Birtbold pag. 11. after disswades by force of many arguments Ad haec vulgus confuso exult at clamore omnes vno ore Ducem sibi poscunt dari which when she could not auoyd she cunningly propounds a free Election by letting loose an horse that should stay before a man eating at an Iron table which was agreed vnto and then she sayes Ite demum vt quem vos cras eligatis in Dominum ego assumam mihi in maritum This horse stood still before Primislaus who was eating his dinner vpon his plough share and so he is chosen The first form of Election Cosm Prag p. 6. and the forme of Election recorded to bee by salutation of all the people they all all cry out Domina nostra Lubosso plebs vniuersa mandant vt cito venias c. te Ducem te Iudicem te Rectorem te Protectorem te solum nobis in Dominum eligimus Here are three Elections in the first foundation and one Reiection of Lubossa confirmed and the forme recorded To wade deeper into the first times is vnnessary onely one obseruation of Cosma Pragensis Pag. 20. Dubrau li. 7. pag. 54. an 1002. that Vlricus the eighteenth Prince who had no issue by lawfull marriage saw by chance at a Well a handsome maide washing named Boâ—â—na vpon whom he cast affection and begat a sonne called Breceslaus Vlricus had put out his brother Iâ—ronâ—irs eyes yet hee tooke his Nephew before whom hee was in right of bloud and presented him adsedem principalem situt semper in electione ducis faciunt c. which proues hee was Elected and the continuation of Election declared in those words sicut semper in Electione To proceed to times better knowne and to an estate better setled and to looke downward from Brecislaus the 22th Prince or as Cosma Prag the ninteenth of Bohemia we shall finde no succession from Father to Son nor from Brother to Brother regular but the fittest to gouerne or the best beloued euer chosen by the Bohemians Brecislaus had fiue sonnes Spitigneus 1 Vratislaus 2 Conradus 3 Otho 4 Iaromirus 5. Spitigneus the eldest succeeded but by Election vpon recommendation of his Father Cosm Prag pag. 30. an 1055 Post Brecislai obitum filium eius primogenitum nomine Spignen omnes Bohemiae gentes magni parui communi Consilio voluntate pari elegunt sibi in Ducem cantantes kyrieleizon After his death Vratislaus his brother was chosen pag. 33. omnibus Boemis fauentibus He had also sixe sonnes Breceslaus 1 Boleslaus 2 Boriuorius 3 Vladislaus 4 Sobieslaus 5 Henricus Bishop of Olmunts 6 All these should haue succeeded the Father in rule of succession but Conradus the Vncle was chosen Duke Hee had two sonnes Vdalricus or as Cosma Prag calls him Oalricus and Leopoldus or Lutoldus Now in true succession one of these must succeed the Father Conrad but now the Bohemians returne to Brecislaus their Cosin German and eldest sonne to Vratislaus and yet they returne not to him as in right Dubran p. 78. Nam diu ambigebant ordines num Brecislaum ab exilio adregnum paternum reuecarent an domi aliquem ex fratribus eius qui regnaret After the death of Brecislaus they againe skippe his three sonnes Vladislaus Henricus and Theobaldus who should succeed and also the next elder brother and Boriuerius the yonger is chosen Now Vdalricus Cosm Prag pag. 54.55 or Oalritus the first sonne of Conrad thinkes himselfe wronged to bee twice neglected in the Election and complaines to the Emperour at Ratisbon sollicits him by prayers by friends by money to helpe him to the kingdome possessed by his Cozen Borinoy Dubran pag. 84 Ibid. The Emperour takes his money and lends him some succors Sed hac conditione vt liberum sit Bohemis aut Vdalricu at Boriuorium habere Principem vtrum videlicet borum magis idoneum habilemque approbauerint But when it came to a declaration to what end hee would vse these aydes to clayme the kingdome by right hee dares not but enterprets himselfe Dat sibi Dncatus insignia vexillum which were due to him by bloud had hee beene the youngest of the family Sed in Ducem elegendi obtentum ponit in arbitrio Boâ—horum But the Bohemians refuse his claime made by his Embassadors and adhere to their first Election of Boriuoy and defeat Oalricus and all his pretences in battaile Boriuoy had a sonne called Iaromirus who should haue succeeded had that right taken place but Suatopulcus gets in by fauour and by the relapse of the people deposeth Boriuoy This man was Cozen German to Boriuoy of a younger house the sonne of Othe the fourth sonne of Brecislaus the two and twentieth This Suatopulcus was not long after reiected Borinoy againe receined And hee againe the second time deposed and thrust out and Suatopulcus restored so continued Prince to his death He had a son called Henry baptized by the Emperour Cosm Prag pag. 57. and brought vp by him yet hee being slaine in the Campe Othoniger his brother was Elected Prince The Emperor comming to see and lament the dead body of Suatopulcus and to appease the people who it seemes feared lest he would obtrude vpon them a Successor against their will Pag. 60. adstantibus immensis Boemis concessit vt quemcunque voluissent suorum ex filijs principum sibi in Ducem cligerent There was the Sonne of Suatopulcus aliue for any thing appeares many of the grand-children of Vratislaus the first King and foure and twentieth Prince before Otho in the right of Succession yet Weseck of Morauia intercedes that he may be chosen Duke him also Henry the Emperour fauours before the sonne and his owne God-sonne and the people being most Morauians approue the Election and presently in the Campe admit him for their Prince crying Kyrieleyzon and in foure daies brought him to Prage Dubrau pag. 90. at which Dubrauius sayes the Bohemians tooke offence Questi sâ—nt de electione in Castris factâ contra Maiorum Instituta moremque veterem And Cosma Pragensis sayes he was refused as he was â— Quod quia sine consensu Boemorum Episcopi efficere conabantur frustratur eorum temeritus Sacramenta olim exhibita in medio consilio recitantur And Vladislaus the brother of Boreuoy was Elected vt Iura Principatus Iure adoptata Cosm Prag pag. 60. that is by lawfull Election omnibus ascentientibus obtineret This Vladislaus was younger brother to Boreuoy long since deposed and now
hee complaines and Otho the brother of Suatopulcos renewes a pretence First Boreuoy treates by his Embassadors to perswade his yonger Brother to resigne Responsom huic a Vladislao huiusmodi retulit non esse rem priuatam quam Boriuorius peteret Dubrau p. 91. sed ad vniversi populi suffragium illam pertinere proin haud ab vno fratre sed ab omnibus ordinibus principatum esse ambiendum The Bohemians adhere truely to their owne Election ouerthrew Otho in Battaile Cosm Prag pag. 62. and after Vladislaus by the Emperours deliuery gets Boreuoy into his power and all his friends Hee dyes and Sobieslaus his yongest brother is chosen Otho niger againe pretends quia aetate prior esset but is reiected Sobieslaus had foure sonnes Vladislaus the first Dubrau p. 9â— Sobieslaus the second Vdalricus the third Wenceslaus the fourth These should haue succeeded the Father if succession had preuailed but Vladislaus his Nephew the sonne of his Brother Vladislaus euen by the fauor of Sobieslaus his Vncle against his owne Children and by the Emperors helpe was designed Prince of Bohemia and by the Emperor crowned the second King But the Bohemians because hee was yonger in yeares then Conrad his Cozen Germane the sonne of Leopold son of Otho And because his Election was not formall Dubrau p. 10â— ac Caesaris potius quam Boemorum Principem quando non in Bohemia sed in curia Caesaris Princeps sit creatus Throno deijciunt in locum eius Conradum substituunt But the Emperour Fredericke fauouring Vladislaus restor'd him by force and his sonne Fredericke succeeded but was after also expulsed and Vdalricus the third sonne of Sobieslaus the 30th Prince chosen his elder brethren being neglected He was Cozen German halfe remooued from Fredericke He dying his next elder brother Sobieslaus succeeded and now Fredericke had againe gotten possession was againe expulled After which Conradus the sonne of Leopold forenamed was a new declared Prince of Bohemia suffragijs primorum or dinum Dubrau P. 126. Fredericke was againe restored and Conrad expulsed and then Fredericke dying though hee had fower brethren aliue Albert Suatopulk Premislans and Vladislaus which should all haue taken place in true succession Conradus was in his absence declared Prince ab ordinibus Bohemia Dubrau p. 130. After his death Venceslans the son of Otho niger younger brother to Suatopulcus his Cozen but preferred before many neerer the Succession was Elected Prince Him Primislaus expulsed but fearing his returne hee quitted Prage And Wenceslaus in his returne died leauing a Sonne called Spitigneus vacante principali sede Henricus the second Sonne of Brecislaus the sixe and twentieth Bishop of Prage diem comitiorum habendorum Praga indicit Dubrau P. 132. candida tumque in illo principatus pro spitigenio pupillo agit Boemi parumper deliberantes ipsum Henricum vnanimi assensu magnaque voce Principem Boemiae pronuntiant Heere also was a succession interrupted by the free Election not onely Spitigneus the sonne of the last Wenceslaus reiected because a childe but Henry preferred before all the Sons of Vladislaus the second King of Bohemia Henry not long after falls sicke and assembles all the Nobility declaring vnto them his desire to resigne the Principality of Bohemia Dubr u p. 134. Datque ill is potestatem eligendi Principis quemcunque voluerint but the Bohemians hoping on his recouery would not proceed to a new Election and so he remained Prince to his death Being dead de successione in comitijs ab ordinibus variatum Dubrau p. 135. at last they Elected Vladislaus yonger brother to Primislaus once before in possession and fift sonne of Vladislaus the second King two elder Brethren at least aliue He resigned in fiue moneths to Primislaus his brother who was Elected Prince Dubr Genealog Page 139. being of the second venter by the Landgraues daughter and his elder brethren and their children for any thing appeares being refused And this Priâ—â—slaus was crowned the third King of Bohemia by the Emperour Philip at Mentz de omnium quae aderant sententia Anno 1199. Thus it is euident from Bretislaus the 22. to this Primislaus Ottocarus the thirtieth in which are seuenteene changes no kinde of succession hath taken place but that the yonger brother that beene preferred before the elder the vncle before the Nephew the yonger house before the elder and many Princes deposed for misgouernment or want of forme in true election After Primislaus foure Kings are pretended to succeed to Wenceslaus the seauenth King But Primislaus causeth his sonne Wenceslaus to be crowned in his life-time and Dubrauius notes it pag. 139. that he was carefull of his owne house Exin rebus suis domi intentas Venceslaum silium etiamsi puerum regem coronat which hee needed not haue done had he Ius successionis and was easie for him to doe being in possession When hee died his friends concealed it and his sonne Ottocarus entred with an army and so was admitted Idem 157. Propter frequentiam comitatus qui eum ex Austria Styria Morauia comitabantur ita plerisque metuendus quia armatus vener at Hee was Marquesse of Morauia established in his Fathers life time and because hee was not then admitted to the Crowne by Election it seemes he entred armed which hee needed not doe to his Inheritance He was slaine in the battell of Laua and his sonne Venceslaus a Childe was admitted in his Infancy in honour of the Father ex consensu omnium Ordinum Idem 16â— cura fouendi illius ad Marchionem Brandeburgum The Marquesse abuseth the trust and carries him away At 15. yeares of age he is restored to the Bohemians for a summe of mony not till now was he chosen King which I inferre out of Dubranius Idem 169. Inter catera ab omnibus acclamantum est Aduenisti tandem desiderabilis quem tam diu ex pectabamus Ottogari ô inclytaproles which insinuates the loue of the father nihil videlicet tum Otthogari nomine clarius nihil ad conciliandum omnium ordinem fauorem efficacius which implyes the Election by the States although the reason be rendred why they chose him for loue of the father yet still their fauour was the formall part of his admission Wenceslaus the 7. The stories mention not the manner his Admission King succeeded the Father in him ended the ancient Race of their Princes in all these no succession of right established He had 3. sisters Iudith eldest Anne Elizabeth the first married to Rupertus of Nassau the Emperors son the second to Henry of Carinthia the third yet a maid Dubrau p. 179. The States assemble in the Bishop of Prages house ad ius comitioruÌ„ summaque contentione de Rege eligendo certant alijs perigrinuÌ„ regem penitus aspernantibus alijs inter Rodulphum Caesaris Alberti filiuÌ„ Henricum ex Carinthia qui praesens