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Doubravka of Bohemia
Doubravka of Bohemia, Dobrawa (Czech: Doubravka Přemyslovna, Polish: Dobrawa, Dąbrówka; c. 940/45 – 977) was a Bohemian princess of the Přemyslid dynasty and Duchess of the Polans by her marriage to Mieszko I of Poland.
She was the daughter of Boleslaus I the Cruel, Duke of Bohemia, whose wife may have been the mysterious Biagota, and had been already divorced or widowed by the time she married Mieszko.
According to near-contemporary sources, Doubravka urged her Polish husband to accept baptism in 966, the year after their marriage. Modern historians believe, however, that the change of religion by Mieszko was one of the points discussed in the Polish-Bohemian agreement concluded soon before his marriage with Doubravka. Her role in his conversion is not considered now to be as important as it is often represented in medieval chronicles.