Libuše
Sign in to savethumb|Libuše and Přemysl, sculpture by [[Josef Václav Myslbek (1881), today in Vyšehrad]] , Libussa, Libushe or, historically Lubossa, is a legendary ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty and the Czech people as a whole. According to legend, she was the youngest but wisest of three sisters, who became queen after their father died; she married a ploughman, Přemysl, with whom she founded the Přemyslid dynasty, and prophesied and founded the city of Prague in the 8th century.
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thumb|Libuše and Přemysl, sculpture by [[Josef Václav Myslbek (1881), today in Vyšehrad]] , Libussa, Libushe or, historically Lubossa, is a legendary ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty and the Czech people as a whole. According to legend, she was the youngest but wisest of three sisters, who became queen after their father died; she married a ploughman, Přemysl, with whom she founded the Přemyslid dynasty, and prophesied and founded the city of Prague in the 8th century.
==Legend== thumb|upright|"Libussa Goth. Reg." ("Libussa, Queen of the Goths") from [[Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum (1553)]] thumb|"Princess Libuše prophesies the glory of Prague" ([[Joseph Mathauser)]] Libuše is said to have been the youngest daughter of the equally mythical Czech ruler Krok. The legend goes that she was the wisest of the three sisters, and while her sister Kazi was a healer and Teta was a magician, she had the gift of seeing the future, and was chosen by her father as his successor, to judge over the people. According to legends she prophesied from her castle at Libušín, though later legends say it was Vyšehrad.