when it was awarded by
Emperor
Henry II
to
Bishop Albuin I of Brixen.
Bled Castle
was first mentioned in a 22 May 1011
deed in which Henry II donated it to Albuin's successor, Bishop Adalberon of
Brixen. With Carniola, Bled was ceded to
Rudolph
of Habsburg
after he defeated
King Ottokar II of Bohemia
at the
Battle on the Marchfeld
in 1278. From 1364 until 1919, Bled
(Veldes) was part of the
Duchy of
Carniola, except for a stint between 1809 and 1816 as one of the
Napoleonic
Illyrian Provinces
After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary in 1918, Bled came under the rule of
the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and became a summer domicile of the
ruling House of Karađorđević, a
tradition that President Josip
Broz Tito continued, when he
built
