Yaroslav (Opole)

Jaroslaw (also: Jaroslaw von Oppeln ; Polish: Jarosław Opolski ; * between 1143 and 1163; † March 22, 1201 ) was Duke of Oppeln and Bishop of Wroclaw .

Origin and family

Yaroslav came from the Silesian Piast dynasty . His parents were Boleslaw I "the Tall One " and Wenzlawa ( Zvinislava ) from Kiev . After her death, Boleslaw married Adelheid, daughter of Count Palatine Berengar von Sulzbach . This marriage had four sons and two daughters, including:

• Heinrich I († 1238), Duke of Silesia and Senior Duke of Poland
• Adelheid, married to Margrave Diepold III. from Moravia

Life

It is not known whether Yaroslav was born while his father was exiled in Saxony or after his father's return in Silesia . After Boleslaw had chosen his son Heinrich, who came from his second marriage to Adelheid von Sulzbach, as the sole heir, Jaroslaw was indignant and fought against his father together with his uncle Mieszko I. He finally transferred the Opole region ( Silesia Opoliensis ) to him as a duchy for life in 1180 . In return, Jaroslaw had to undertake to enter the clergy.

After the death of the Wroclaw bishop Siroslaus in 1198, Jaroslaw was chosen as his successor. In the same year he consecrated the Church of St. James in Neisse . During his tenure, he supported the Silesian Hospitallers and called the Cistercians from Pforta , to whom he handed over extensive property near Leobschütz . With Pope Innocent III. he corresponded on the discipline of the clergy . The German settlement of the Ottmachau castellan , which belonged to the equipment of the Breslau bishops, was promoted by him.

After Yaroslav's death on March 22, 1201, the Duchy of Opole fell back to his father Boleslaw in accordance with the treaty. Since this in the same year on December 8th d. J. died, Yaroslav's uncle Mieszko conquered the Opole region a few months later and linked it permanently with his dominion. The area of ​​the Ottmachau castellan, which did not belong to the Opole region and whose sovereignty continued to belong to the duke, fell back to Duke Boleslaw.

literature

• Jan Copyc : Jaroslaus (Jaroslaw), Duke of Opole (1143 / 63–1201). 1198–1201 Bishop of Breslau. In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 , p. 107.
• Historical Commission for Silesia (Ed.): History of Silesia. Volume 1: Ludwig Petry , Josef Joachim Menzel, Winfried Irgang (eds.): From primeval times to the year 1526. 5th, revised edition. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1988, ISBN 3-7995-6341-5 , pp. 88-90.

predecessor	Office	successor
Siroslaus II.	Bishop of Breslau 1198–1201	Cyprian