Bolko V. (Opole)

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Bolko V. (also Boleslaus V. von Opole , Boleslaw V. von Opole ; Polish Bolko V opolski ; Czech Boleslav V. Opolský ; * around 1400; † May 29, 1460 ) was 1437–1460 Duke of Opole and 1425–1460 Duke von Klein Glogau , and 1455–1460 Duke of Falkenberg and Strehlitz . As a supporter of the Hussites , he participated in their raids in Silesia .

Family and origin

Bolko came from the Opole branch of the Silesian Piasts . He was the first-born son of the eponymous Duke Bolko IV and Margaretha von Gorizia .

Around 1418 he married Elisabeth, a daughter of Elisabeth von Pilitza from her marriage to Wincenty Granowski. This marriage came from Bolko's only son Wenceslaus, who died around 1453. After the marriage with Elisabeth was dissolved around 1450, Bolko married Hedwig, daughter of Heinrich von Biese, a year later.

Life

As early as 1425, his father transferred the area of Klein Glogau to him , so that Bolko V subsequently dubbed Klein Glogau and Prudnik as Duke of Opole and Lord . When a Hussite army stormed Klein Glogau on March 13, 1428, Bolko managed to protect it and his father's territory from further attacks with a treaty. Then he went over to the Hussites and confiscated church property. The collegiate monastery in Klein Glogau ( Oberglogau ) he held up its income. When Dobeslaus Puchala and Siegmund Koribut, a nephew of the Lithuanian prince Witold , invaded Upper Silesia with a Polish troop in the first half of March 1430 , Bolko V was the only Silesian prince to join them. Together with Puchala he conquered Kreuzburg and besieged other Silesian cities. After the Hussites took Rybnik during a raid in the Waag Valley in March 1433 , they handed it over to Bolko V., from whom the Opava Duke Nicholas V took it again two months later . Bolko was the only Silesian prince who did not join the peace alliance ( Landfrieden ), which was concluded in September 1433 . He also refused to recognize Emperor Sigismund as King of Bohemia.

After the death of his father in 1437, Bolko and his brothers Johann, who died two years later, and Nicholas I took over the reign of the Duchy of Opole. In 1443 Bolko protested against the sale of the Duchy of Sewerien by the Teschen Duke Wenceslaus I to the Krakow Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki , because he was of the opinion that he was entitled to Sewerien under inheritance law. Like the taborite Jan Kolda von Žampach and the Glatzer pawnbroker Hynek Kruschina von Lichtenburg , Bolko V. also turned to robber barons from the 1440s and attacked goods and merchant trains.

After 1454 Bolko acquired the two-thirds share of the Duchy of Opava from Duke Ernst , which he administered as the guardian of the children of his older brother Wilhelm , who died in 1452 . He did not join the Silesian League of princes and several cities, which met on April 16, 1458 in the presence of Bohemian representatives in Breslau . The federal government rejected the Bohemian electoral monarchy and also did not want to recognize the election of Georg von Podiebrad as a non-orthodox king. In contrast, Bolko confessed to being a supporter of King George.

Since Bolko died without any descendants, he was followed by his only surviving brother, Nicholas I , who continued the Opole line. He had to cede the share of Troppau acquired by Bolko V. to King George of Podebrady, who was able to strengthen his influence in Moravia and Upper Silesia.

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  1. ↑ Information according to pl: Bolko V Husyta
personal data
SURNAME Bolko V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boleslaus V .; Boleslaw V .; Bolko V opolski (Polish); Boleslav V. Opolský (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Oppeln, Falkenberg, Strehlitz and Klein Glogau
DATE OF BIRTH around 1400
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1460