Slavník
{{Short description|10th-century Bohemian noble}}
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Slavník (died 981){{Cite book|last=Charvát|first=Petr|title=The Emergence of the Bohemian State|publisher=Brill Academic Publishers|year=2010|isbn=978-90-47-44459-6|location=Leiden|pages=181}} was a Bohemian nobleman, and the founder of the Slavník dynasty.{{cite book|author1=Cosmas (of Prague)|author2=Lisa Wolverton|title=The Chronicle of the Czechs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZG7igBN41oUC&pg=PA77|year=2009|publisher=CUA Press|isbn=978-0-8132-1570-9|pages=77–8}}
Biography
Slavník rose to power during the reign of Boleslaus II of the Přemyslid dynasty. Slavník controlled significant estates within central Bohemia, and was overlord of the site of Libice nad Cidlinou.{{Cite book|last=Charvát|first=Petr|title=The Emergence of the Bohemian State|publisher=Brill Academic Publishers|year=2010|isbn=978-90-47-44459-6|location=Leiden|pages=180-181}} Slavník was possibly of White Croatian origin.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}
Family and issue
He had several children by his wife Střezislava. Six of his sons are known by name:
- Soběslav (his heir)
- Saint Adalbert
- Spytimír
- Pobraslav
- Pořej
- Čáslav
He had also a son named Radim Gaudentius by another woman (probably a concubine). According to Chronica Boemorum, Slavník was a happy man all his lifetime.