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ná Hora, Mělník and, in 1257,
Malá Strana
in Prague. Through battles, marriage and dip-
lomacy, Otakar expanded his territories so that they stretched (almost) from the Baltic to the
Adriatic. In 1278, however, Otakar met his end on the battlefield of Marchfeld, defeated by
Rudolf of Habsburg.
The beginning of the fourteenth century saw a series of dynastic disputes - messy even by
medieval standards - beginning with the death of Václav II from consumption and excess in
1305. The following year, the murder of his son, the heirless, teenage Václav III, marked the
endofthePřemysliddynasty
(hehadfoursisters,butfemalesuccessionwasnotrecognized
in Bohemia). The nobles' first choice of successor, the Habsburg Albert I, was murdered by
his ownnephew,and when Albert'sson,Rudolf I,died ofdysentery not long afterwards, Bo-
hemia was once more left without any heirs.
