STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2183, sig. 109-9/7 Page 84 · 84 of 105
A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2183, sig. 109-9/7
English Translation
79 845 dukes from Bohemia are baptized in Regensburg. In 846 Ludwig the German war against the Moravian Slavs and the war ends in 870 by the capture of the Moravians duke. The Mihrian principality is temporarily converted into a Franconian province and administered by Bavarian counts. A chronicle reports that in 895 all dukes appeared in Bühmen before Emperor Arnulf. This marks the affiliation of the Bohemian greats to the occidental-catholic realm (the emperor as champion of the chronicle). The activity of the Slavenapostel Cyrill and Method and relations to the Orthodox Byzantium are temporary episodes. The emergence of one's own Great-Mihrian empire is also only a short interim epoch. The year 950 is decisive. The weakness and inner turmoil of the empire, which could be exploited by Bohemian and Moravian greats for their interests, are over. Otto the Great appears. Mt. to him the attempts of the Ündependenzkampf der Pschemisliden against the German kingdom are ended. "Boleslaw I. As the contemporary historian Widukind reports, "it preferred to submit to such majesty as to suffer the most extreme destruction; he set himself under the flags, gave speech and answer to the king, and finally received forgiveness." It is no less remarkable that according to the judgment of the Czech historian Novotny, Boleslaw "would have set the national independence of his people in Frege, if he had not won the political prize in time." This not only made personal ties between King and Duke, as the Czech history describes it, but established ties of a state-law character. If, before 950 tri-butary relations, according to modern legal concepts, there existed, for example, international relations, then from 950 onwards, it was about marriage relations,