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Birth:          ABT  984 of Praha, Bohemia
Death:          1052 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C5%BEena_(K%C5%99esinov%C3%A1)
Božena (Kresinová) (died after 1052) was the second wife (and probably earlier the 
mistress) of Duke Oldrich of Bohemia and mother of Bretislaus I of Bohemia.

Meeting of Oldrich and Božena[edit]

The historian Cosmas of Prague recorded the legend of Oldrich and Božena, in his 
Chronica Boëmorum ("Chronicle of the Bohemians"). According to the legend, the 
young (and married) Oldrich set out on a hunt and travelled to Peruc. There, he spied 
a beautiful peasant girl, Božena, by a well known today as Božena's Spring[1] and was 
immediately entranced by her.

Oldrich abandoned his hunt and took Božena back to Prague, where she eventually 
gave birth to his illegitimate son Bretislaus. In the legend, Oldrich's first meeting with 
Božena took place in sight of the Oldrich Oak.

Božena was indeed the savior of the Czech House of Premysl. Oldrich had two 
brothers, but one of them, Jaromír, was castrated by the eldest sibling, Boleslaus III. 
Boleslaus himself was imprisoned in Poland, possibly having only a daughter. Thus 
Oldrich was the one Premyslid able to have a son and heir. His first wife is thought to 
have borne no children.

Božena's low birth is alluded to in the chronicle of Cosmas, which states that Oldrich 
first met her "riding through the village". The illegitimate birth of her son Bretislaus to 
a low-born mother is believed to have made it necessary for him to resort to abduction 
when he later sought to marry a noble bride (Judith of Schweinfurt). At any rate, she 
was held to be a peasant woman already by the author of the early 14th-century 
Chronicle of Dalimil.

Parents
____ Kresina (ABT  950 - )
----- ----- ()

Siblings
____ Bozena (ABT  984 - 1052)

Marriage To ____ Udalrich (Oldrich) (ABT  975 - 9 Nov 1034)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Boleslaw (Boleslav) II "the Pious" (ABT  935 - 7 Feb  999)
OF MELNIK Emma (Hemma) (ABT  930 - 1005)

Children by ____ Udalrich (Oldrich) ABT  975 - 9 Nov 1034
____ Bretislaw (Bretislav) I "the Warrier" (ABT 1005 - 10 Jan 1055)

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