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Who was Ludmila?
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Who was Ludmila?
The wife of the first historically known Czech monarch from the Přemyslov family, Bořivoje I., came from the land of the Sál Serbs and was the daughter of their prince Slavibor. She was born sometime after 850 and was married to Bořivoj I before 875. It can be assumed that the marriage of Ludmila and Bořivoj was closely related to the Great Moravian foreign policy, which at that time achieved a notable diplomatic success in peace negotiations with the East Franconian Empire in Forchheim. Legends a hundred years younger speak of Ludmila's baptism in Moravia, Archbishop Methodius is often cited as the baptizer. At the same time, the possibility cannot be ruled out that it was in the power and ecclesiastical center of Great Moravia that the marriage of the prince of the Czechs, Bořivoj, with the daughter of the prince of the Serbs, Ludmila, took place, and this could have completed the annexation of both territories under the Great Moravian administration.
Ludmila and Bořivoj are considered to be the first historically known Czech royal couple and, as the first known generation, they are the great-ancestors of the Czech monarchs until the liquidation of the Czech kingdom in the autumn of 1919. However, the fact that most of the Czech queens married to the Prague throne have Ludmila and Bořivoj among their ancestors is also very interesting. This fact indicates a very high level of interconnectedness and kinship between the majority of European royal families, as the wives of the Czech kings came from almost all European countries. It is for this reason that the overview of Czech queens begins with Saint Ludmila, as she can be considered the great-grandmother of the Czech kings and, with a few exceptions, also the great-grandmother of all Czech queens.
Saint Ludmila, however, was not only the great-grandmother of the Czech monarchs, but also became the first Czech saint after her martyrdom. After the death of her husband just before 890, she focused on raising her children, of whom we only know the names of Spytihněv and Vratislav. Two decades later, according to legends, she was also supposed to take part in the education of her grandson, the later prince and saint Wenceslas. In doing so, she allegedly got into a dispute with her daughter-in-law Drahomíra, who resolved it by sending assassins. Today, it is difficult to reconstruct the real course of events, but it cannot be denied that a similar story of a dispute between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law on Wednesday? It really played out in Europe in the 10th century. But it did not happen until the 1980s, when the actors in the dispute over the upbringing of the young emperor Ota III. were his mother Theofano and grandmother Adelheid. Since the period of this dispute almost exactly coincides with the period of creation of the first Ludmila legends, it cannot be ruled out that it was the relationship between Theofano and Adelheid that inspired the author of the legend. In any case, Saint Ludmila died on September 15, 921 in Tetín at the age of sixty, by the hand of a murderer.
