Frederick I of Liegnitz

Frederick I ( May 3, 1446 Brieg; † May 9, 1488 in Legnica ) was 1455-1488 Duke of Liegnitz and 1471-1488 Duke of Brieg. He was also Governor of Upper Lusatia 1471-1475, and in his death in 1488 Upper Governor of Silesia.

Origin and family

Friedrich came from the Legnica branch of the Silesian Piast dynasty. His parents were John I of Lubin († 1453) and Hedwig († 1471 ), daughter of Duke Louis II of Legnica and Brzeg and Elisabeth of Brandenburg.

On September 5, 1474, Friedrich married to Ludmilla, a daughter of the Bohemian King George of Podiebrad. The couple had three sons:

Life

When his father Johann I death of Frederick in 1453, who was supposed to start its successor as Duke of Liegnitz, was only seven years old. Even with the acquisition of the Duchy of Legnica in 1449 by Frederick's father came to inheritance disputes, which had been caused by the 1436 incurred Liegnitzer Lehnstreit, which was only released in 1469. After the death of John I in 1453, the City Council recognized, although the first seven years of Frederick I as Duke of Liegnitz on, but intended the Bohemian King Ladislaus Postumus and collect its Gubernator George of Podiebrad the Duchy. Therefore Friedrich arrived only in 1455 to the government of his duchy.

After the May 3, 1469 Matthias Corvinus was elected (counter ) King of Bohemia and reigned over Silesia, he enfeoffed Frederick I with the Duchy of Legnica, the same time almost all pledged to Opole areas were returned. Only by this investiture of decades Lehnsstreit was terminated. Although Friedrich maintained a good relationship with the in-laws Bohemian Podiebraden, he was also in the favor of King Matthias Corvinus. This intention to transfer Frederick I, the Office of the Higher Regional Captain for Silesia, but initially could not prevail against the princes and states themselves. After he had conferred on him in 1471 the office of the provincial governor of Upper Lusatia, succeeded him until 1488 to appoint Frederick I of Upper Governor of Silesia. A few months later Frederick I died at the age of only 42 years. The custody of the unemancipated children of Friedrich and Georg took over until 1499 Frederick widow Ludmilla.

Frederick's body was buried in the Carthusian monastery founded in 1423 Liegnitz, but in 1547 under Frederick III. was demolished. The bones of the interred there Liegnitzer Piast were transferred to the former St. John's Church, which now served as a palace church.

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