Duchy of Tost

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The Duchy of Tost (Polish Księstwo toszeckie ; Czech Tošecké knížectví ) was detached from the Duchy of Bytom at the beginning of the 14th century . The place of residence was the city of the same name, Tost, which today belongs to the Polish Voivodeship of Silesia .

history

Tost Castle

The area of ​​Tost initially belonged to Duke Boleslaw I of Silesia . In 1202 Duke Mieszko of Ratibor conquered it together with the Opole region . After the death of Opole Duke Wladislaus I in 1281, the area of ​​Tost came to the newly founded Duchy of Beuthen , whose first Duke was Casimir II . He was the first Silesian duke to honor the Bohemian King Wenceslaus II in Prague on January 10, 1289. At the same time, with the consent of his sons, he took over his land as a fiefdom of the crown of Bohemia . During his lifetime he spun off the Tost area from the Duchy of Beuthen for the eldest son Boleslaus , who was titled Duke of Tost as early as 1304 and presumably resided at Tost Castle until 1320 . After his death in 1328, the Duchy of Tost inherited his brother Wladislaus , who in turn linked it with the Duchy of Bytom.

After the Bytom branch of the Silesian Piasts died out in 1355, Tost came to the Duchy of Teschen in 1357 after a protracted inheritance dispute , with which it remained connected until 1484. Primislaus III. , Son of Kasimir von Auschwitz , resided in Tost from 1434 until his death in 1484. In 1497 the Duchy of Tost was acquired by the Opole Duke Johann II , with whom the Opole branch of the Silesian Piasts expired in 1532. Together with Opole it fell as a settled fiefdom to the Crown of Bohemia, which had been ruled by the Habsburgs since 1526 .

Reign of Tost-Peiskretscham

The now sovereign property of the former Duchy of Tost was pledged in 1557/58 by Emperor Ferdinand I together with Peiskretscham and eight villages to the Barons von Redern , who acquired the resulting Tost-Peiskretscham rule in 1593 from the Bohemian King Rudolf II . From 1638 to 1707 and again from 1752 to 1759 the Tost-Peiskretscham estate belonged to the Count Colonna . 1718–1752 it was owned by Count Franz Kottulinsky and from 1759–1791 by Counts Friedrich Wilhelm and August Wilhelm Sigismund von Posadowsky. Then it belonged to Joseph von Eichendorff's father Adolph Freiherr von Eichendorff until 1797 , who was followed by Count Gashin . They sold the estate to the von Guradze family in 1841.

Dukes of Tost

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