The Vrshovici, a noble Czech (Bohemian) family and clan, are the third most powerful political force in newly Christianized Czechia (Bohemia), after the reigning Premyslidi and the contending Slavníki.

They are active in Bohemian conflicts with Poland, Hungary and the Kings and Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, and in the intermittent internal conflicts common for feudally fragmented regimes of this time.

Possessing such towns as Zatec and Litomerice, the Vrshovici have consanguinity with the Premyslidi and provide political services to them, when it suits Vrshovici goals.

A revolt in Bohemia organized in 1002 by Vrshovici grandees (along with Boleslaus's son-in-law) force Boleslaus to flee to …