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Jindřich Zdík

c. 1083–1150 · 12th century

Jindřich Zdík (c. 1083–1150) was Bishop of Olomouc from 1126 and a leading churchman of 12th-century Bohemia. He moved the see to the castle at Olomouc, where he built a new cathedral and a Romanesque bishop's palace, and he helped found the Premonstratensian monastery of Strahov in Prague. A supporter of church reform and of the crusades, he took part in the Wendish Crusade of 1147.

Jindřich Zdík — Image: Michal Maňas · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Duchy of Olomouc

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