Bohemia is in Central Europe and is part of the present Czech rebublic. Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic or Slovakian state. ( Eastern Europe was indeed restructured after the fall of Soviet Structuring.) The song is unusual among Christmas songs for the following reason. It is written in the past tense, All of the action seems low-key and there is something morbid about it. It is an historical fact That Wenceslaus, for whom the song was named, was assassinated! Whether this took place on the day after Christmas ( the feast of Steven, who WAS a martyr!) is not known. The song has a rather weak denouement that never mentions the King and his aide ( in some versions it"s a female aide de camp!) returning to the Palace after their good deed. Near Prague, in Bohemia (now part of Czechoslovakia)
Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907-935), was not actually a king. However, after his death the king of the Ottoman Empire conferred the title on him. There was also a King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia who lived three centuries later but he has no relevance to the Christmas Carol.
Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907--935), was not actually a king. However, after his death the king of the Ottoman Empire conferred the title on him. There was also a King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia who lived three centuries later but he has no relevance to the Christmas carol.
Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907-935), was not actually a king. However, after his death the king of the Ottoman Empire conferred the title on him. There was also a Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia who lived three centuries later but he has no relevance to the Christmas carol.
Good King Wenceslas was the King of Bohemia, which sits more or less in the territory of the current Czech Republic.
Actually, he was not a king but the Duke of Bohemia.
Good King Wenceslas was the duke of Bohemia in the 10th century.
He was not actually a king, but a Duke of Bohemia.
Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen - December 26.
Apparently, Wenceslas never married.
Bohemia which is in the modern Czech Republic
Although the exact date is not specified in the carol, Good King Wenceslas stepping out is typically associated with the Feast of Stephen, which is celebrated on December 26th.
King Wenceslas asked for logs of wood to give to a poor peasant during a harsh winter in the Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas."
Good King Wenceslas - 1994 TV was released on: USA: 26 November 1994
Duke of Bohemia was his title. He was not a king.
Good King Wenceslas
No, he was not a king. Wenceslaus I, or Wenceslas I, was the duke of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935, purportedly in a plot by his own brother, Boleslav the Cruel.