Boleslaus (Beuthen-Cosel)

Boleslaus von Beuthen and Cosel (also Boleslaw von Beuthen and Cosel ; Polish Bolesław Bytomski ; Czech Boleslav Bytomsko-Koselský ; * around 1330; † 1354/1355 ) was Duke of Beuthen and Cosel . He came from the Beuthen branch of the Silesian Piasts .

Life

His parents were Duke Wladislaus von Beuthen and Cosel and his second wife Lukardis / Luitgard, daughter of Duke Pribislaw II von Parchim-Richenberg . In 1347 Boleslaus married the Moravian nobleman Margareta von Sternberg († 1365). The daughters came from marriage

• Elisabeth († after 1373); ∞ (1360/1363) the Teschen Duke Przemislaus I.
• Euphemia (around 1350/1352; † 1411); ∞ I: (1364) Duke Wenzel von Falkenberg († 1369); ∞ II: (1369) Duke Bolko III. of Münsterberg († 1410)
• Boleslawa / Bolka (* around 1351/1355; † around 1427/1428), Abbess of Trebnitz

After Boleslaus older stepbrother Casimir III. who had owned the partial duchy of Cosel since 1336/1337 and died between 1342 and 1347 unmarried and without descendants, Cosel fell to Boleslaus. After his father's death in 1352 he also inherited the Duchy of Beuthen and united both parts to form the Duchy of Beuthen-Cosel.

After the death of Boleslaus in 1354/1355, with which the Bytom line of the Silesian Piasts became extinct, an inheritance dispute arose over the Beuthen-Cosel inheritance, which had fallen back to the Crown of Bohemia as a settled fiefdom . The dispute, whose opponents were the dukes of Oels , Teschen and Opole , was only resolved in 1357 and 1369 by the Bohemian sovereign Charles IV .

literature

• Historical Commission for Silesia (Ed.): Geschichte Schlesiens , Vol. 1, Sigmaringen, 1988, ISBN 3-7995-6341-5 , p. 158.
• Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , pp. 21 and 369 and family tree on pp. 596–597.
• Rudolf Žáček: Dějiny Slezska v datech . Praha 2004, ISBN 80-7277-172-8 , pp. 84, 414, 423, 434 and 449.

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