A woman taking a walk through a field in Kutnohorsk, a city 50 miles southeast of Prague, stumbled on a few silver coins that turned out to be the advance guard of one of the largest early medieval coin hoards ever found in the Czech Republic.

Authorities  ultimately unearthed more than 2,150 silver deniers minted by Bohemian rulers King Vratislav II. and princes Břetislav II. and Bořivoje II, between 1085 and 1107.

Too bad I'm past child siring years.  I'd shoot for another boy and name him Vratislav if I wasn't.  

Vratislav II was married three times. His first wife Maria died during premature childbirth. He married the second time in 1057 to Adelaide, daughter of Andrew I of Hungary, who died in 1061.^[10] They had:

• Vratislaus (-1061)
• Judith (1056/58-1086), married to Ladislaus I Herman,^[11] son of Casimir I of Poland
• Ludmila (-after 1100)
• Bretislaus II of Bohemia (c. 1060–December 22, 1100), Duke of Bohemia

In 1062, Vratislaus married a third time to Swatawa of Poland, a daughter of Casimir I of Poland.^[12] They had five children:

• Boleslaus (-1091)^[12]
• Bořivoj II of Bohemia (c. 1064-February 2, 1124), Duke of Bohemia^[12]
• Vladislaus I of Bohemia (-April 12, 1125), Duke of Bohemia^[12]
• Soběslav I of Bohemia (-February 14, 1140), Duke of Bohemia^[12]
• Judith (c. 1066-9 December 1108), married to Wiprecht II of Groitzsch

You go Vratislav!

The hoard was originally buried in a ceramic container, but over the centuries the vessel was destroyed by plowing. Archaeologists were only able to find the bottom of it, but it is evidence that this fortune in coins was amassed and buried in one deposit.

Due to the frequent battles for the Prague princely throne, the armies of individual rival princes repeatedly marched through today's Kutnohorsk Region.  Experts thing it is possible that the hoard represents cash for paying wages, or perhaps war booty.

I'm voting for war booty.  

Via the always good History Blog.