Silesia 1249-1273: Opava under Nicholas I in turquoise
Status
Silesian duchy Fiefdom of Bohemia Part of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (since 1348)
Capital
Troppau
Common languages
Czech, German, Polish
Religion
Roman Catholicism, Protestantism
Historical era
Middle Ages
• Partitioned from Moravia
1269
• Personal union with Racibórz
1337
• Partitioned from Racibórz
1377
• Further partitions
1424, 1433 and 1452
• Directly to Bohemia
1462
• Northern part to Prussia
1742
• abolished
1918
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Margraviate of Moravia
Czechoslovakia
Today part of
Czech Republic
Poland
The Principality of Opava (Czech: Opavské knížectví; Polish: Księstwo Opawskie) or Duchy of Troppau (German: Herzogtum Troppau) was a historic territory split off from the Margraviate of Moravia before 1269[1] by King Ottokar II of Bohemia to provide for his natural son, Nicholas I. The Opava territory thus had not been part of the original Polish Duchy of Silesia in 1138, and was first ruled by an illegitimate offshoot of the Bohemian Přemyslid dynasty, not by the Silesian Piasts like many of the neighbouring Silesian duchies. Its capital was Opava (Troppau) in the modern-day Czech Republic.
From 1337 onwards, the Přemyslid dukes also ruled the adjacent former Piast Duchy of Racibórz, whereupon Opava became united with the Upper Silesian lands. When the Opava branch became extinct in 1464, it fell back to the Bohemian Crown, from 1526 part of the Habsburg monarchy. In the final three centuries of its existence, the duchy was ruled by the House of Liechtenstein. It was dissolved with the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, but the title of Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf still exists, belonging to a present-day monarch, Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein. The Duchy of Jägerndorf (Krnov) was another of the Silesian duchies.
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