Bolesław the Elder

Bolko II of Falkenberg, also Boleslaw ( Boleslaw ) II of Falkenberg, Polish Bolesław ( Bolko ) Niemodliński, Czech Boleslav Falkenberský, (c. 1290/95, † 1362/65 ) was from 1313 until his death, Duke of Opole part Duchy Falkenberg. In 1327 he presented his country as a fief of the crown of Bohemia.

Origin and family

Bolko came from the Opole Silesian branch of the Piast dynasty. His parents were Bolko I of Opole and Gremislava or Agnes NN 1325 married Bolko Euphemia, daughter of Duke Henry VI Breslauer. Because of the close relationship had to be obtained for the marriage of a papal dispensation. The couple had children

  • Bolko / Boleslaw († 1367/68 )
  • Wenzel von Falkenberg ( † 1369 ) ∞ 1364 Euphemia († 1411 ), daughter of Duke Bolesław of Bytom
  • Heinrich von Falkenberg ( † 1382 ) ∞ 1372 Catherine, daughter of Margrave John Henry of Moravia
  • Margareta († 1399 ) ∞ 1354 Landgraf Ulrich III. of Leuchtenberg
  • Jutta ( † after 1378 ) ∞ 1359 Duke Nicholas II of Opava († 1365 )
  • Anna († 1365 ), Poor Clare in Wroclaw
  • Hedwig, Abbess of the Poor Clares Breslauer

Life

After the death of his father Bolko / Boleslaw I of Opole in 1313, the Duchy of Opole was divided for his three sons. Bolko, the eldest son, Falkenberg received with Oberglogau. His eponymous younger brother Bolko II received Opole and the youngest brother Albert was Strehlitz. From 1318 to 1326 Bolko of Falkenberg had also Wjelun he probably due to a dispute of his father Henry VI. with the Polish king Władysław I the Elbow- lost, the cause of the Henry VI. on May 5, 1326 was closed alliance with the Teutonic Knights. 1328 brought Bolko of Falkenberg Schurgast itself, which was fortified by him.

Politically sat Bolko böhm friendly policies of his father continued. This was on January 17, 1291, together with the Duke of Teschen Mesko I. Olomouc an alliance with King Wenceslas II closed in which committed the two Upper Silesian dukes, assist the King of Bohemia in the acquisition and enforcement of its rights and countries against anyone. This is probably why Bolko of Falkenberg was one of the Upper Silesian princes, the Czech king John of Luxembourg submitted voluntarily. As this was in 1327 on the train from Brno to Krakow on Upper Silesia, came to him Bolko of Falkenberg, Casimir I of Cieszyn and Wladislaus († 1351/55 ) of Cosel after Opava contrary. There they worshiped him on 18 and 19 February this year, assumed their lands as a fief of the crown of Bohemia and reached by connecting to the German Reich. The documents handed homage the king preserved the sovereignty of the princes, but gave himself up as the supreme judge over them and also called for an Army result in Silesia. Five days later, followed the example of the three princes in Bytom Lestko of Ratibor and John I of Auschwitz, the King of Bohemia also handed over their duchies as fiefs and worshiped him. Probably sold out of gratitude for King John 2000 marks the hitherto Moravian Prudnik to Bolko of Falkenberg.

Bolko / Boleslaw of Falkenberg died 1362 /65. His body was buried in the St. Anne's Chapel of the Franciscan monastery Opole. The succession as Dukes of Falkenberg took first together the sons Bolko, Wenzel and Henry. After the eldest son Bolko 1367/68 and the second-born Wenzel died in 1369, Heinrich von Falkenberg reigned until his death in 1382 alone.

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