Wenceslaus of Żagań

Wenzel von Sagan ( 1420-1434 *, † April 29, 1488 in Breslau) was not reigning Duke of Sagan. He came from a branch of the Silesian Piast Glogau.

Life

Wenzel was the third-born son of Duke John I of Sagan and Scholastica of Saxony -Wittenberg (1391-1463), a daughter of the Elector Rudolf III. Since he was still a minor when her father 's death in 1439, he got together with the youngest brother, John II, first under the tutelage of the eldest brother Balthasar.

As Wenzel was suffering from a disability, had to in the 1449/50 division of the Duchy of Sagan made ​​his younger brother Johann II, who received the since 1413 Sagan belonging Priebuser country, commit to Wenceslas financial supply. In contrast, the two older brothers Balthasar and Rudolf received the Saganer share and it had the support of her widowed mother and her sisters contest.

Because of his disability Wenzel did not participate in the political process. From 1454 he was under the tutelage of John II After Balthasar died in 1472, John II Priebus reunited with the Duchy of Sagan, but in the same year he sold the Courageous to the Saxon Duke Albrecht. This had to commit to acquire an annuity for Wenzel. 1476 renounced Wenzel for 400 Hungarian florins to his hereditary rights to the ducal half of Glogau. In the same year he entered the monastery at St. Barbara's Church in Wroclaw. In his 1478 will, he established certain his fortune for the construction and equipping of the church. There, in 1488, his body was buried.