Background
He was born at Hasištejn Castle near Kadaň, Bohemia.
He was born at Hasištejn Castle near Kadaň, Bohemia.
After 1483, he became provost of Vyšehrad in Prague and between 1490-1491 he travelled to the Holy Land and Egypt, earning the nickname "the Czechoslovakian Ulysses". He was elected the bishop of Olomouc, but he was refused by the Pope. After this, he lived with a few of his writer friends in his "tusculum", Hasištejn Castle in north-eastern Bohemia.
Lobkovic was an author of philosophical prose, letters, and verses, amongst them a satire on Bohemian national life: Ad sanctum Venceslaum satira (1489).
He was a successful essayist and poet, and became poeta laureatus. He was the younger brother of January Hasištejnský z Lobkovic.
He died at Hasištejn Castle in 1510.