England and Czecholslovakia Royal Blood Lines...?

Question

There is a rumour in my family that my great-grandmother was once in line for the throne in Czecholslovakia (now the Czech Republic/Slovakia), and that my grandmother from England was related to English royalty. Is there any way I could find this information, and perhaps get a list of potential heirs to eiter throne (the more the better), or perhaps a royal family tree, without having to pay different websites?

Answer 1

She would have been either Moravian or Bohemians--there was no "Czech Republic" at that time.  Each region had royalty.  In fact, King Wenceslas (of Christmas music fame) is a kind from the area--Moravian I think (Prague for sure).

These royalty have been out of the country for a long time--you could go through the names on the registries, but England would be even more difficult.  There IS a list of the top 40 or so in line for the English Throne--can't remember where I saw it though.  I'm sure it's not royalty but rather a regional noble, like a lord and lady situation.  There were many more of those.

Answer 2

You wouldn't have to pay any websites. The native royal family of Bohemia (which had absorbed the once-independent Moravia back in the 10th century) was the Przemyslid dynasty. The last king of this line was Wenceslas III who died in 1306. For lack of a male heir the crown of Bohemia then went to his sister Elizabeth, who had married John of Luxembourg. The Luxembourg dynasty gained the title Holy Roman Emperor, but after a few generations they too no longer had a direct male heir so the inheritance went in 1438 to a female, Elisabeth, who married Albert von Habsburg. From then on the Habsburg descendants of Elisabeth and Albert owned Bohemia as well as Austria (plus Hungary and an awful lot of the rest of central and eastern Europe) right up until the last Habsburg emperor renounced all his thrones and titles in 1918.

So since 1438 nobody has been "in line for the throne in Czechoslovakia" unless they were the direct heir to the head of the House of Habsburg. The current head of the House of Habsburg is Otto von Habsburg, son of the last Habsburg emperor, Karl I. If anybody is in line for the Bohemian and Moravian throne, he is.

Answer 3

I am shaky on my European history, but wasn't the region formerly known as Czechoslovakia part of the Austrian empire? I think your family has a great story, but nothing to support it in history