Přemek of Opava

I am the first owner of the Opava Castle!

And who am I?

My name is Přemek I of Opava (1365 – October 28, 1433)

I was born as a posthumous child. 1 442 / 5 000This means that I was born only after the death of my father, Duke Nicholas II of Opava and Raciborz. My mother was Judith Falkenberg, a Piast woman from Silesia.

My great-grandfather was the Czech king Přemysl Otakar II.

Due to the debts inherited from my ancestors, I was forced to pledge the Hradec Castle when taking over the fief and build a new one adjacent to the Opava city walls.

During my reign, I tried to stabilize the feudal power in the Opava region and develop trade and the prosperity of the cities.

As a nobleman from the inner circle of King Sigismund of Luxembourg, I participated in the First Crusade alongside him.

After the transfer of the government of Moravia to Albrecht Habsburg and the siege of Opava by the Hussites in 1431, I allowed preaching under both in my country, and I also promised all my sons to start receiving communion from the chalice within a year.

I was the last member of a family that made a significant mark in the history of the Czech Crown.

I married three times and fathered ten children, five sons and five daughters.

I died in Hradec and was buried in the ancestral necropolis in the Opava Minorite monastery near the Church of the Holy Spirit.