Heinrich (Oppeln-Falkenberg)
Heinrich von Falkenberg (also Heinrich von Oppeln-Falkenberg ; * around 1340 ; † 14 September 1382 ) was Duke of Oppeln and from 1362/65 Duke of Falkenberg . He was a feudal man of the Crown of Bohemia and came from the Opole branch of the Silesian Piasts .
Life
Heinrich's parents were Bolko II von Falkenberg and Euphemia, a daughter of the Breslau Duke Heinrich VI.
After the death of his father in 1362/65, Heinrich's eldest brother Boleslaus / Bolko took over the reign of the Duchy of Falkenberg for both the second-born Wenceslas and the youngest brother Heinrich.
After the older brother Boleslaus / Bolko followed his father in death in 1367 or 1368, Heinrich and Wenzel ruled together. However, Wenceslaus died in 1369 without any descendants. Heinrich, then only 16 years old, was the sole ruling Duke of Falkenberg from 1369. A short time later he signed a contract of inheritance with his cousins, the Opole dukes Wladislaus II and Bolko III. , which was confirmed in March 1372 by the Bohemian sovereign Charles IV . The inheritance contract stipulated that the Duchy of Falkenberg should fall to the Dukes of Opole in the event of Heinrich's childless death.
From 1371 Heinrich led a long-term dispute with the Breslau bishop Preczlaw von Pogarell about the right to live in the episcopal castle Jauernig .
In 1372 Heinrich married Katharina, a daughter of Margrave Johann Heinrich von Moravia . 1373 he gave Oberglogau the Magdeburg Law , and on 24 February 1379 he donated to the local parish church of St. Bartholomew a collegiate four prelacies and nine Kanonikaten and a Kollegiatsschule.
Heinrich, who preferred Oberglogau as his place of residence, died in 1382. He was buried in the collegiate church of St. Bartholomew at the side of his wife, who had been buried there four years earlier. With him the direct line Falkenberg of the Opole Piasts died out.
Despite the existing inheritance contract with the Dukes of Opole, Charles IV's son and successor Wenceslaus tried to transfer the Duchy of Falkenberg to his honored court judge and diplomat Primislaus I von Teschen after Heinrich's death . However, because of the opposition of the Dukes of Opole, he could not prevail.
literature
- Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 365f. and family tree on pp. 596–597.
- Rudolf Žáček: Dějiny Slezska v datech. Libri, Praha 2004, ISBN 80-7277-172-8 , pp. 415 and 496.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heinrich von Falkenberg; Heinrich von Oppeln-Falkenberg; Henryk niemodliński (Polish); Jindřich Falkenberský (Czech) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duke of Opole and Falkenberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1340 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1382 |