GUGLIELMA OF BOHEMIA

Fresco in church of Saint Andrew in Brunate (Como, Italy)
Guglielma of Bohemia blessing Maifreda da Pirovano with Andrea Saramita

The model of Guglielma is Bianca Maria Visconti
The model of Maifreda is Maddalena Albricci

Guglielma of Bohemia was born in Bohemia around 1210 as Vilelmina Blanchena Premysil. She was the daughter of the king of Bohemia Ottokar I Premysil and Constance of Hungary. She arrived in Milan (Italy) around 1260 and died there on May 24th 1281. She was buried as a Saint in Chiaravalle Abbey, not so far from Milan. On 1300 the Holy Inquisition declared her an heretic. So they took her from the grave and burn her body. She was a silent pope of the Catholic Church. Her successor was pope Maifreda da Pirovano, a cousin of Matteo I Visconti.