The Duke of Silesia was the sons and descendants of the Polish Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth. In accordance with the last will and testament of Bolesław, upon his death his lands were divided into four or five hereditary provinces distributed among his sons, and a royal province of Kraków reserved for the eldest, who was to be High Duke of all Poland. This was known as the fragmentation of Poland. Subsequent developments lead to further splintering of the duchies.
At the beginning of the 14th century, fourteen independent Duchies existed in Silesia: Brzeg, Wrocław, Świdnica, Jawor, Ziębice, Głogów, Ścinawa, Żagan and Oleśnica in Lower Silesia; Koźle, Cieszyn, Bytom, Niemodlin, Opole, Strzelce, Racibórz and Opava in Upper Silesia and the ecclesiastical Duchy of Nysa. Between 1327 and 1329 most dukes accepted the overlordship of Bohemian king John of Bohemia, who acquired the right of succession for all of these duchies. In the coming centuries all branches of the Silesian Piasts died out, and with the death of George William, Duke of Liegnitz the dynasty ceased to exist.
The DukeofSilesia was the sons and descendants of the Polish Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth. In accordance with the last will and testament of Bolesław,...
(Polish: Henryk II Pobożny; 1196 – 9 April 1241) was DukeofSilesia and High Dukeof Poland as well as Dukeof South-Greater Poland from 1238 until his death...
March 1238) was a Polish duke from the Piast dynasty. He was DukeofSilesia at Wrocław from 1201, Dukeof Kraków and High Dukeof all Poland – internally...
German: Oberschläsing; Latin: Silesia Superior) is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region ofSilesia, located today mostly in Poland...
was a member of the Silesian branch of the royal Polish Piast dynasty. He was DukeofSilesia at Wrocław from 1266 as well as the ruler of the Seniorate...
by an 1137 agreement with the Bohemian duke Soběslav I. In the west Lower Silesia bordered on the German March of Lusatia (later Lower Lusatia) and the...
Duchies ofSilesia were the more than twenty divisions of the region ofSilesia formed between the 12th and 14th centuries by the breakup of the Duchy of Silesia...
he was Dukeof Głogów from 1499, Dukeof Opava from 1501, and governor ofSilesia from 1504 on behalf of his brother, King Vladislaus II of Bohemia and...
as King of Bohemia, the Austrian Emperor also retained the title ofDukeof Upper and Lower Silesia, as can be gathered from the grand title of Emperor...
death of King Casimir III the Great. Branches of the Piast dynasty continued to rule in the Duchy of Masovia (until 1526) and in the Duchies ofSilesia until...
Austrian Silesia, officially the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, was an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Habsburg monarchy (from 1804...
Burgrave of Nuremberg, Count of Hohenzollern, DukeofSilesia and of the County of Glatz, Grand Dukeof the Lower Rhine and of Posen, Dukeof Saxony, of Angria...
(1653–1677), Count of Auersperg, DukeofSilesia-Münsterberg (1615–1677) Johann Ferdinand, 2nd Prince of Auersberg (1677–1705), DukeofSilesia-Munsterberg (1655–1705)...
the Pious, the DukeofSilesia. The first invasion's intention was to secure the flank of the main Mongolian army attacking the Kingdom of Hungary. The...
serves as the symbol of the historical and geographical regions of the Silesia, and Lower Silesia, and as one of the symbols of the Silesian people, is...
Silesia (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany...
The coat of arms of Lower Silesia, and simultaneously ofSilesia, shows a black eagle with silver crescent with cross in the middle on its chest (the...
In the second half of the 2nd millennium B.C. (late Bronze Age), Silesia belonged to the Lusatian culture. About 500 BC Scyths arrived, and later Celts...
(1105–1159), DukeofSilesia, sometimes known as Ladislaus I the Exile Vladislaus II, Dukeof Bohemia (c. 1110–1174), who reigned as King Vladislaus I of Bohemia...
member of the Silesian Piasts, was DukeofSilesia at Wrocław from 1248 until his death, as co-ruler with his brother Władysław. He was the third son of the...
Władysław was granted Silesia as his hereditary province and also the Lesser Polish Seniorate Province at Kraków according to the principle of agnatic seniority...
heads of state of Poland. Currently, the president of Poland is the head of state of the country. See: Poland in the Early Middle Ages Most of these rulers...
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