Jan I of Żagań

Was 1403-1413 Duke of ( semi / herzoglich ) Glogau and from 1413 until his death in 1439 the Duke of Sagan Johann I von Sagan († April 12, 1439 Johann I von Glogau - Sagan; ; * 1385 ).

Origin and life

John I came from a branch of the Silesian Piast Glogau. His parents were Duke Henry VIII and Catherine († 1420 ), daughter of the Duke of Opole Władysław II

When the father's death in 1397 and his younger brothers Johann Heinrich IX. , Henry X. and Wenzel were still a minor. Together with her ​​mother, she took over the regency over the undivided inheritance of their father, but were initially under the tutelage of her uncle Rupert I of Legnica. 1403 Johann reached the age of majority and assumed the regency over Sagan and Duke of Glogau, at the same time for his younger brothers. 1413, now an independent area of Sagan was spun for him, where he also had to renounce the succession in the ducal share of Glogau. This managed from 1413 his brothers Henry X., Heinrich IX. and Wenzel to 1418 continue to work together.

Like his brothers paid homage to Johann 1420 in Breslau the Bohemian ruler Sigmund, whom he assisted in the fight against the Hussites. In 1428 he stood in front of a Silesian- oberlausitz between army with which he unexpectedly in Jawor came across the Hussites, thereby Johanns troops disbanded. On January 23, 1429, therefore, he concluded with the Saxon dukes and the Upper Lusatian Six Towns League an association for the protection against the Hussites.

Due to the resignation of John to the succession in Glogau, was the second-born brother Henry IX. Sole heir of the territories of Henry X., who died in 1423 on a mission trip to Flensburg and Wenceslas, who died in 1430/31. This led to war between Johann I and Henry IX. , Which feuded before. Although the federal government in 1429 closed tried to mediate between the brothers, there was no reconciliation. Nevertheless, Johann had to make do with Sagan.

John died in 1439 and bequeathed Sagan to his four sons Balthasar, Wenzel, Rudolf and Johann II They divided it into two halves, but had to enter into foreign armies to earn a living. Be the envy of and the fight against his brother Johann Heinrich IX. , Of the great Duchy of Glogau ruled alone, was continued by Johann's eponymous son John II in a cruel manner.

Marriage and issue

Between 1405 and 1409, Johann I. married with Scholastica († 1462/63 ), a daughter of the Elector Rudolf III. of Saxe- Wittenberg. The couple had children:

  • Balthasar († 1472 ), Duke of Sagan, ∞ 1 with Agnes NN ( † 1460 ); ∞ 2 1469 with Barbara, daughter of the Duke of Teschen Boleslaw II
  • Rudolf ( † 1453), Duke of Sagan
  • Wenzel ( † 1488 ), Duke of Sagan
  • John II († 1504), Duke of Sagan and at times of Glogau; ∞ at 1461 Catherine ( † 1505 ), daughter of Duke Wilhelm Troppauer
  • Anna († 1437 ) ∞ Count Albrecht III. of Lindow -Ruppin († 1460 )
  • Hedwig († 1497 ) ∞ 1432 Prince Bernhard VI. of Anhalt- Bernburg († 1468 )
  • Margarethe († 1491 Salzderhelden ), ∞ 1 1435 Volrad Graf von Mansfeld († 1450 ); ∞ 2 Heinrich XI. of Hohenstein -Wittenberg († 1454); ∞ 3 1457 Henry III. of Brunswick- Grubenhagen († 1464 )
  • Barbara († 1476 )
  • Scholastica ( † around 1489 )
  • Agnes († 1475 )
Silesian Piasts Henry VIII the Sparrow Henry IX the Older Henry X Rumpold Wenceslaus of Krosno Wrocław Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg Balthasar of Żagań Bolesław II, Duke of Cieszyn Rudolf of Żagań Wenceslaus of Żagań Jan II the Mad William, Duke of Opava Anhalt-Bernburg Henry III, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen Integrated Authority File
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