Up to three crowns

The last expansion of the Overheads (1278-1301)

Josef Žemlíčka

Only a versatile analysis can answer many questions relating to King Wenceslas II, who was crowned king of Poland in the autumn of 1300 and negotiated the Hungarian crown for his son next year.

Was it a phenomenal achievement, or was it the source of the problems that lined the last years of Václav's reign? And what was before that? Did Václav have such a skilled advisor and diplomats, or did the happy coincidence help? And what role did the silver of the Czech mountains, which was feared abroad?