Bolesław of Toszek

Boleslaw Tost (also Boleslaw / Boleslaw II of Bytom and Tost; Polish Bolesław toszecki; Czech Boleslav Bytomsko - Koselský; * 1280, † 1328 or 1329 ) was Duke of Upper Silesian Duchy of Bytom and since 1304 Duke of the Duchy part Tost. In 1321 he became Archbishop of Gran

Life

Boleslaw / Boleslaw was the eldest son of Casimir II and the Duke Beuthener Helena, whose origin is not known. They set him on the spiritual path. He was first mentioned on 10 January 1289 when he along with his father and his next younger brother Władysław the Czech King Wenceslas II paid homage and fealty took off. For the year 1294 it is detected as scholastics of Krakow, and three years later as a canon of the cathedral chapter Breslauer. During the lifetime of his father, who died in 1312, the territory of Tost was for him spun off as its duke it for the first time in 1304 in uncertificated and the sovereign rights exercised when he sold the Scholtisei the village Giegowicz at Tost with additional accessories to Peter Ratay. In a document issued in Breslau on April 5, 1306 document in which he is mentioned as a witness, he is known as Duke of Tost and Scholastikus of Krakow. In a written certificate on March 6, 1309, he testified that his knight Scarbimir 've sold the manor to the Knights Keltsch Jasco and Florian.

Um 1315 to Boleslaw went to the court of the Hungarian king Charles Robert of Anjou, who was married to Boleslaw 's sister Mary, who died in 1317. In 1320 he was sent by the king to the Cracow court, where he agreed with King Władysław I the Elbow- the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth with King Charles Robert of Anjou. This is probably why he was appointed on October 2, 1321 to the Archbishop of Gran.

Shortly before his death, he succeeded his younger brother Mieszko to give the episcopal throne of neutralinos. After his death in 1328, Boleslaw was buried in the Cathedral of Gran. The area of Tost inherited his brother Władysław, in turn, connected it with the Duchy of Bytom.