George I (Münsterberg-Oels)
Georg I. von Münsterberg (also: Georg I. von Podiebrad ; Czech: Jiří z Minstrberka ; * October 2, 1470 in Lititz ; † November 10, 1502 in Oels ) was duke in the Silesian principalities of Münsterberg and Oels and Count von Glatz .
Life
Georg was a grandson of the Bohemian King George of Podebrady . His parents were Heinrich d. Ä. von Münsterberg and Ursula von Brandenburg , daughter of Margrave Albrecht Achilles .
After Georg's brother Albrecht had been married to a daughter of the Sagan Duke Johann II in 1487 , the younger brothers Georg and Karl were married with daughters of Johann II in 1488 in a double wedding . Georg's wife became Hedwig (1476–1524).
After the death of their father in 1498, the three brothers Albrecht, Georg and Karl ruled together, each living on his own farm: Albrecht in Glatz , Georg in Oels , Karl in Münsterberg and from 1530 in the newly built castle in Frankenstein . Although the three brothers sold the Grafschaft Glatz to their later brother-in-law Ulrich von Hardegg as early as 1501 , they kept the title of Count von Glatz for themselves and their descendants until the Münsterberg lineage of the Lords of Podiebrad in the male line in 1647.
Georg was a great sponsor of the spa facilities in Bad Landeck . Soon after the death of his father, he arranged for the Georgenbad there to be built with a house and the St. George's Chapel. In 1501 he issued the first bathing regulations for Landeck.
literature
- Josef Joachim Menzel: Johann II. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 487 f. ( Digitized version ). (Secondary entry)
- Hermann Markgraf: Johann II. (Duke of Glogau and Sagan) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 402-409. (Additional entry in the article Johann II., Duke in Silesia and Lord of Sagan)
- Arno Herzig , Małgorzata Ruchniewicz : History of the Glatzer Land . Hamburg-Wrocław 2006, ISBN 3-934632-12-2 , pp. 54–59
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| SURNAME | George I. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | George I of Podebrady; Jiří z Minstrberka |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Imperial Prince, Duke of Münsterberg and Oels, Count of Glatz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1470 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lititz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1502 |
| Place of death | Oils |