Jindřich Břetislav was the Czechduke from 1193 to 1197. Being the bishop of Prague he also gained the title of the prince of the Empire.
He was a distant relative of Premysl I Ottokar. He gained the Czech throne with the help of the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, which also dethroned him in 1197 and passed the throne to the brother of Premysl Ottokar, Vladislav Jindrich.
His early years were passed amid the anarchy which prevailed everywhere in the country, after several struggles, in which he took part, he was recognized as ruler of Bohemia by the emperor Henry VI in 1192.
In 1197 Otakar forced his brother, duke Vladislav Jindrich, to abandon Bohemia to him and to content himself with Moravia.
Although a subject of the Holy Roman Empire, the Bohemian King was to be the leading electoral prince of the empire and to furnish all subsequent Emperors with a bodyguard of 300 knights when they went to Rome for their coronation.
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