A stone’s throw from the east end of the Cathedral of Saint Vitus stands the smaller but no less significant Basilica of Saint George (Bazilika svatého Jiří). Founded in 920 by Duke Vratislav I, the basilica was one of the earliest Christian churches in Prague, acting as the burial-place of the Přemyslid dynasty until the early 11th century. Among its several notable tombs is that of Ludmila, the grandmother of Duke Wenceslas, whose murder in 921 made her Bohemia’s first Christian martyr. Not long after its foundation the church became associated with the Benedictine convent of Saint George, whose abbess was granted the unusual privilege of crowning successive consorts of Bohemia’s kings. Despite this historic role, the convent was dissolved