John of Bohemia
King of Bohemia · Historical Figures · Lived 1296 to 1346 · aged 50
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Something wrong?A medieval king who ruled Bohemia and Luxembourg, then rode blind into the Battle of Crécy at fifty and died in the melee - a century before gunpowder made such gestures obsolete.
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Born 10 August 1296, John became Count of Luxembourg in 1313 and King of Bohemia in 1310, also holding a titular claim to Poland. He lost his sight around 1336 but continued to campaign and govern. On 26 August 1346, a decade into blindness, he entered the Battle of Crécy and was killed in the fighting. Luxembourg remembers him as a national hero; the Czech lands remember him less for his own reign than as father to Charles IV, who became one of Bohemia's greatest kings and a leading Holy Roman Emperor.
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