Wenceslaus of Krosno

Wenzel von Glogau (* 1389/97, † 1430/31 ) was from 1413 to 1418 together with his brothers Henry IX. and Henry X. Duke of (semi) Glogau and from 1418 until his death sole Duke of Crossen and Schwiebus. He came from a branch of the Silesian Piast Glogau.

Life

Wenzel's parents were Henry VIII and Catherine ( † 1420 ), daughter of the Duke of Opole Władysław II

When the father's death in 1397 Wenzel and his older brothers John I, Henry IX were. and Henry X. 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. After 1403, the oldest brother John I came of age, he assumed the regency at the same time for his younger brothers. 1413 the area of Sagan was spun off for John I, where he had to renounce the succession in Glogau share at the same time. This managed from 1413 Wenzel and his two brothers Heinrich and Heinrich X. IX. to 1418, first together. When performed in this year inheritance Wenzel Crossen and Schwiebus received.

1413 Wenzel fought on the Polish side with six other Silesian princes against the Teutonic Order. In 1420 he was present at the coronation of King Sigismund in Prague and worshiped him together with his brothers in the same year in Wroclaw. Like his brother Henry X. supported Wenceslas King Sigismund in the fight against the Hussites.

Wenzel died in 1430 or 1431st He was not married and had no children. His areas Crossen and Schwiebus inherited his brother Henry IX.