As a bishop, St. Adalbert promoted the political aims of Boleslav II (the prince of Bohemia in the 10th century) and extended the Roman Catholic Church’s influence beyond the Czech kingdom. He tried to improve church standards in the country but faced resistance among the nobility and was probably drawn into the growing feuds between the Czech kings and the Slavník princes of Bohemia (from whom he was descended). He later became a missionary along the Baltic coast, where he was martyred in 997.
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