JaromÃÂr (died 4 November 1038), a member of the PÃ Âemyslid dynasty, was Duke of Bohemia in 1003, from 1004 to 1012, and again from 1034 to 1035.
He was the second son of Duke Boleslaus II the Pious (d. 999). His mother may have been either one of his father's two wives: Adiva or Emma of MÃÂlnÃÂk.
In 1002, JaromÃÂr rebelled against the rule of his elder brother Boleslaus III, who had him castrated and expelled with his mother and his brother Oldà Âich to the Bavarian court at Regensburg. Nevertheless, Boleslaus was unable to secure the Prague throne, as he was deposed by the Bohemian nobility and his rule was taken over by his Piast cousin Vladivoj, backed by the Polish duke Bolesà Âaw I the Brave. Vladivoj also secured the support of King Henry II of Germany when he received the Duchy of Bohemia as a royal fief.
When Vladivoj died the next year, JaromÃÂr and Oldà Âich returned to Bohemia and JaromÃÂr was proclaimed duke by the Bohemian nobles. The Bohemian lands were occupied in turn by the Polish forces of Bolesà Âaw, who reinstated Boleslaus III as duke. After he ordered a massacre of the rival Vrà ¡ovci clan, however, he lost the support of the Polish ruler and was finally deprived of power. Meanwhile, JaromÃÂr had sought military backing from King Henry II. At Merseburg, he promised to hold Bohemia as a vassal of the king. This action definitively placed Bohemia within the jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1004, JaromÃÂr occupied Prague with a German army and proclaimed himself Bohemian duke. Nevertheless, the state he regained was a small one, as Polish forces still held Moravia, Silesia, and Lusatia. JaromÃÂr's reignâÂÂlike so many of the other early Czech rulersâÂÂwas a struggle to regain lost lands. He remained a loyal supporter of King Henry in the smouldering GermanâÂÂPolish War. Nonetheless, the German king took no action when, in 1012, JaromÃÂr was dethroned by Oldà Âich (who had him blinded) and forced once again into exile. In a surprise campaign, JaromÃÂr once again managed to depose Oldà Âich with the support of Emperor Conrad II in 1033, but his second reign was short-lived. A year later, Oldà Âich was restored by his son Bretislaus I.
JaromÃÂr was imprisoned at Lysá nad Labem and died on 4 November 1035 or 1038, a year after the death of his brother. He was assassinated by one of the Vrà ¡ovci clan. According to the Chronica Boemorum, "Kochan sent his executioner, and when the blind man was sitting on the toilet at night, emptying his stomach, he pierced him with a sharp spear from behind to the bowels of the abdomen".