Duchy of Rybnik

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The Duchy of Rybnik (Czech Rybnické knížectví ; Polish Księstwo Rybnickie ) was founded in 1437 as a part of the Duchy of Jägerndorf . It was under the reign of the Troppau-Ratibor tribe of the Troppau Přemyslids until 1474 . The place of residence was the city of the same name Rybnik .

history

The area of ​​the later Duchy of Rybnik initially belonged to the Duchy of Ratibor , which came to the Premyslid Dukes of Opava after the death of Duke Lestko , with whom the local branch of the Silesian Piasts expired in 1336 . In 1377 this was divided into the principalities of Troppau, Ratibor and Jägerndorf.

As the first Duke of Rybnik, the Jägerndorfer Duke Nikolaus V , who also belonged to Freudenthal , was named after 1437 . After his death in Rybnik in 1452, his younger son Wenzel followed him in 1464 as Duke of Rybnik , who also owned Sohrau and Pleß . He was captured by the rival king Matthias Corvinus during the armed conflict between Bohemia and Hungary in 1474 and his property was handed over to Duke Viktorin . Probably after Wenzel's death in 1478, Rybnik, Sohrau and Loslau, came to Johann IV. Ä. von Jägerndorf and after his death in 1483 to his widow, who dubbed Rybnik, Sohrau and Loslau as mistress . After their death, it again fell to the Duchy of Ratibor, which, according to an inheritance agreement, fell to Duke Johann II of Opole after the death of the last Ratibor Přemyslid Duke Valentin in 1521 . Since the Opole branch of the Silesian Piasts expired with this in 1532, Rybnik fell together with Opole as a settled fiefdom to the Crown of Bohemia , which had been in the possession of the Habsburgs since 1526 .

Rybnik Castle, built 1776–1778 on the site of the 14th century castle.

The now sovereign Rybnik was acquired by Ladislaus II Popel von Lobkowitz in 1575 as the Rybnik rule . The Rybnik estate, which consisted of the town of Rybnik and 13 villages, remained in his family until 1638. After further changes of ownership, it fell to Prussia after the First Silesian War in 1742, like most of Silesia .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Geschichte Schlesiens, p. 218, whereby the widow's name is not mentioned. According to cs: Jan IV. Krnovský , Johann IV. Was not married, not even according to the genealogy web link.