Wenceslaus III of OÅ‚awa

Wenceslas III. of Ohlau (also Ludwig III of Legnica - Ohlau; . * 1400, † 1423 ) was from 1420 until his death in 1423 together with his younger brother Ludwig III. Duke of Liegnitz and Ohlau and gentleman on Nimptsch. He was a vassal of the crown of Bohemia and came from a branch of the Silesian Piast Legnica.

Life

His parents were Duke Henry IX. († 1417/20 ) and Anna († 1403 ), a daughter of the Duke of Teschen Przemislaus I.

After the death of his father 1419/20 Wenceslas III inherited. together with his younger brother Ludwig III. Ohlau and Nimptsch while Lüben and Haynau the oldest brother Ruprecht II obeyed. In the same year they paid homage to their ruler, the Bohemian King Sigismund.

Already in 1420 included the three brothers with the Liegnitzer Duke Ludwig II, who was a half-brother of her father, a contract of inheritance, with which they were to inherit her uncle in the case of children whose Wi death. At the 1424 carried out mutual Eventualhuldigungen Wenceslas III could. refused to participate because he had already died in 1423.

Since Wenceslas III. and also the 1431 deceased brother Rupprecht II left no descendants, got their entire estate to the youngest brother of Louis III. He led after the death of his Onkelen Ludwig II lengthy probate dispute by which the to 1469 continued Liegnitzer Lehnstreit was triggered.