The original name of one of the oldest settlements in the Czech Republic was "Hradec" (the Castle); "Králové" (of the queen) was affixed when it became one of the dowry towns of Elisabeth Richeza of Poland (1286–1335), who lived there for thirty years, having been the second wife of two Bohemian Kings, Wenceslaus II and then Rudolph I of Habsburg. In Latin, the "Castle of the Queen" was called "Grecz Reginae", the original German "Königingrätz" was shortened to Königgrätz by 1800. It remained a dowry town until 1620.