Piotr WÅ‚ostowic

Piotr Włostowic ( z), Piotr Piotr Włast or Włost, German Peter Vlast, surnamed Dunin (* around 1080, † 1153 in Wrocław ) was a Polish magnate, governor of Silesia and founder of churches and monasteries. His biography was later forms of glorification and legend.

Life

Piotr Włostowic came from the powerful and wealthy family of Łabędź ( "Swan" - the coat of arms of the family), or was their founder. The nickname Dunin or Duinus also encountered in the form Danus (Denmark ). However, it is uncertain whether Peter Danus was identical with Piotr Dunin Włostowic or a contemporary. In this case, two biographies were grown together into one. He was related to the Piast dynasty, and married Mary, the daughter of Grand Duke Sviatopolk II of Kiev.

Włostowics life was played out in the tension between three power conflicts: between the Piast dynasty and the Salic - Hohenstaufen Empire to Poland's sovereignty; between the four sons of Bolesław III. Wrymouth for precedence in Poland; and between the Polish dukes and the nobility of the country.

1117 made ​​Bolesław III. Włostowic the viscount in Breslau. Włostowic kept this office even after the accession to power of Władysław II in 1138. He strove to strengthen the country economically and religiously. After some time, he lost the confidence of the Duke Ladislaus II; may suspect this, which had to share the rule with three younger half-brothers, Włostowic to stand with our brothers in agreement, or he wanted to generally limit the nobility power. In 1145 Włostowic was captured in the Breslau castle. His eyes were gouged and ripped out the tongue, and so he was sent into exile.

Only when Władysław II was sold by his brothers, Włostowic could return to Breslau 1147. There, six years later he died.