Bolko II. (Opole-Falkenberg)

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High grave Bolkos von Falkenberg (left) and his brother Bolko II. Von Opole in the St. Anne's Chapel in the Opole Franciscan monastery

Bolko II. Von Falkenberg , also Boleslaw (Boleslaus) II. Von Falkenberg , Polish Bolesław (Bolko) Niemodliński , Czech Boleslav Falkenberský , (* around 1290/95; † 1362/65) was Duke of the Opole Duchy from 1313 until his death Falkenberg . In 1327 he subordinated his land to the Crown of Bohemia as a fief .

Origin and family

Bolko came from the Opole branch of the Silesian Piasts . His parents were Bolko I. von Opole and Gremislava or Agnes NN. Around 1325 Bolko married Euphemia, a daughter of the Breslau Duke Heinrich VI. Because of the close relationship, a papal dispensation had to be obtained for the marriage . Children came from marriage

Life

After the death of his father Bolko / Boleslaus I of Opole in 1313, the Duchy of Opole was divided for his three sons. Bolko, the eldest son, received Falkenberg with Oberglogau . His younger brother Bolko II of the same name received Opole and the youngest brother Albert received Strehlitz . From 1318 to 1326 Bolko von Falkenberg also owned Wjelun , which he presumably because of a dispute between his father-in-law Heinrich VI. lost with the Polish King Władysław I. Ellenlang , the cause of which was that of Henry VI. on May 5, 1326 concluded alliance with the German Order of Knights . In 1328 Bolko von Falkenberg took Schurgast , which was fortified by him.

Politically, Bolko continued his father's pro-Bohemian policy. On January 17, 1291, he and the Teschen Duke Mesko I concluded an alliance with King Wenceslaus II in Olomouc , in which the two Upper Silesian dukes undertook to assist the Bohemian king in the acquisition and enforcement of his rights and lands against everyone . Presumably for this reason Bolko von Falkenberg belonged to the Upper Silesian princes who voluntarily submitted to the Bohemian King John of Luxembourg . As this 1327 on a train from Brno over Upper Silesia to Kraków was Bolko came to him from Falkenberg, Casimir I of Cieszyn and Wladislaus († 1351/55) of Cosel according Opava contrary. There they paid homage to him on February 18 and 19. J., subordinated their countries as a fiefdom of the crown of Bohemia and thereby achieved annexation to the German Empire . With the certificates of homage that were handed out, the king preserved the sovereignty of the princes, but placed himself as the chief judge over them and also demanded army succession in Silesia. Five days later, the example of the three princes in Bytom, Lestko von Ratibor and Johann I von Auschwitz , followed, who also gave their duchies to the Bohemian king as fiefs and paid homage to him. Probably out of gratitude, King Johann sold the previously Moravian Prudnik to Bolko von Falkenberg for 2000 marks .

Bolko / Boleslaus von Falkenberg died in 1362/65. His body was buried in the St. Anne's Chapel of the Opole Franciscan monastery. The successors as dukes of Falkenberg were initially jointly taken over by the sons Bolko, Wenzel and Heinrich. After the eldest son Bolko died in 1367/68 and the second-born Wenzel in 1369, Heinrich von Falkenberg ruled alone until his death in 1382.

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SURNAME Bolko II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boleslaus II .; Boleslaw II .; Bolesław Niemodliński (Polish); Bolko Niemodliński (Polish); Boleslav Falkenberský (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Falkenberg (1313–1362 / 1365)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1295
DATE OF DEATH between 1362 and 1365