Citation: "[The] first historically documented Kolowrat, recognised by historians as the founder of the family, is Albrecht of Kolowrat the Elder († 1391). [...] He married three times and fathered eight children, six of them sons, laying the foundations of one of the most ramified among Czech aristocratic families." that had a prominent role in the history and administration of their native Kingdom of Bohemia as well as the Holy Roman Empire and later the Habsburg monarchy as high-ranking officials and supporters of the Czech National Revival.
