Charles IV of Bohemia founds the archbishopric of Prague
1344
Eager to free his Bohemian kingdom from German ecclesiastical oversight, Charles persuaded Clement VI to elevate Prague to an archdiocese independent of the Mainz metropolitan. He laid the cornerstone of the new Gothic cathedral on Hradcany hill the same year. Bohemia would become the cultural heart of the empire under his rule.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.