The duke was murdered by his younger brother, Boleslaus the Cruel, whose epithet apparently was not a sufficient warning sign.
Wenceslas was posthumously made a king by Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great, and is the subject of the 19th century English carol Good King Wenceslas, which was based on a slightly earlier Czech poem.
The cathedral was given a Gothic makeover in the 1300s and 1400s, and again in the late 1800s. It was allowed to run down during communist rule but was restored from 2004-7.
The facade is suitably imposing, but the inside is decoratively very restrained compared with many Roman Catholic places of worship in central Europe.
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