Konrad II the Gray

Conrad II of Oels (* 1338/1340, † June 10, 1403 in Trebnitzgrund ) was from 1366 until his death Duke of Oels and Cosel and from 1369 Duke of Bytom half. From 1394 he was Duke of half and from 1394 duke of all Steinau. He came to the Silesian Piast branch of Glogau.

Life

Conrad II parents were Conrad I of Oels († 1366) and his second wife Euphemia, daughter of Duke Władysław of Bytom - Cosel. In 1354 he married Agnes († 1371 ), daughter of Duke Casimir of Cieszyn I. The marriage came from the only son of Conrad III. († 1412/1413 ).

After the death of his father inherited the same name Konrad II, who had no other siblings, whose handsome possession. The guided by his father many years inheritance dispute over the inheritance of the Duke Bolesław of Bytom - Cosel, which was home like 1354/55 as a completed fief to the crown of Bohemia, was indeed already in 1355 to the effect resolved that Conrad I the Duchy Cosel was awarded. The outstanding dispute over the Duchy of Bytom, however, was only settled by Conrad I 's death in 1369. After half fell Bytom with the northern part of the Duchy of Bytom to Euphemia, the widow of Conrad I, the / 78 died 1376. From her it inherited her son Conrad II

During his reign, Conrad II was anxious that his country zoom by adding purchases. Already in 1370 he bought from Euphemia († 1411 ), daughter of his uncle Boleslaw of Bytom - Cosel, who with the cathedral Berger Duke Bolko III. was married, a part of Gliwice. From whose husband Bolko III. he acquired in 1379 and city precincts Kanth. The indebted Troppauer Dukes staggered him Hultschin 1385, Kranowitz and Zuckmantel which he combined with his duchy Cosel. Because of indebtedness sold him in 1394 of Glogau Duke Henry VIII Sperling Steinau half, the second half of 1397 also reached Conrad II.

1380 appointed Konrad II Benedictine monks of the Prague Emmaus Monastery in his town of residence oil. For the construction of the abbey and the monastery church he handed them a site on the northern edge of the city.

Konrad II died in 1403 in Trebnitzgrund. Successor and heir to the vast possessions was his only son Conrad III. , Which, however, died ten years later.