Bernhard II (Schweidnitz)

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Bernhard II of Schweidnitz (* around 1288 ; † May 6, 1326 ), Lord of Fürstenstein and Jauer , was Duke of Schweidnitz-Jauer from 1301–1326 .

Origin and family

Bernhard came from the Silesian Piast family . His parents were Duke Bolko I of Schweidnitz and Beatrix († 1316), daughter of Margrave Otto V of Brandenburg . Bernhard's siblings included:

  • Heinrich I († 1346)
  • Bolko II († 1341)
  • Judith / Jutta († 1320), married to Stephan I. von Niederbayern
  • Elisabeth († after 1341), married to Duke Wratislaw IV of Pomerania
  • Anna († 1332/34), abbess in Strehlen

Bernhard had been married to Kunigunde († 1333), daughter of the Polish king Władysław I, a cubit from the Kujaw Piast family , from around 1310 . The children come from the marriage:

After Bernhard's death, his widow Kunigunde married Duke Rudolf I of Saxony-Wittenberg in 1328 .

Life

After the death of his father Bolko I in 1301, his sons Bernhard, Heinrich and Bolko were still minors. Therefore they were initially under the guardianship of their uncle Hermann von Brandenburg , who entrusted this task to his captain Hermann von Barby ( barboy ). After the death of the guardian Hermann von Brandenburg in 1308, the meanwhile mature Bernhard ruled the duchy at the same time for his younger brothers. Heinrich came of age in 1312 and received Jauer, which again became an independent duchy, Bolko received Münsterberg in 1321 , whose line of ducal he founded. The Duchy of Schweidnitz fell to Bernhard.

Together with eight other Silesian dukes, Bernhard complained to the Holy See in Avignon in 1320 about the introduction of St. Peter's penny in the Breslau diocese in the new form of per capita tax, which until then had been levied per family. In 1322 Bernhard and other Silesian knights fought during the Battle of Mühldorf together with the Bohemian King John of Luxembourg on the side of the Wittelsbachers under Ludwig IV of Bavaria .

Duke Bernhard was a great patron of I. from his father Bolko founded monastery Grüssau . After his death he was buried in a high grave in the choir of the monastery church, which was relocated in 1661/62, presumably because it interfered with the liturgical celebrations. In 1738, Bernhard's bones were transferred to the new princely chapel .

The Duchy of Schweidnitz fell to Bernhard's son Bolko II in 1326.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Ambrosius Rose: Grüssau Monastery . Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-8062-0126-9 , p. 29
personal data
SURNAME Bernhard II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernhard II of Schweidnitz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Schweidnitz, Lord of Fürstenstein and Jauer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1288
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1326