Johann I. (Munsterberg)

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Johann I von Münsterberg (Polish: Jan ziębicki ; † December 27, 1428 in Altwilmsdorf ) was Duke of Münsterberg from 1410 until his death.

family

Johann came from the line of the Silesian Piasts . His parents were Bolko III. von Münsterberg († 1410) and Eufemia, daughter of Duke Boleslaw von Beuthen and Cosel . Johann's siblings experienced adulthood:

Life

Memorial chapel for Duke Johann von Münsterberg

After the death of his father in 1410, Johann took over the government of the Duchy of Münsterberg together with his brother Heinrich II. In that year he was married to Elisabeth, widow of the Krakow castellan Spytek von Melsztyn, who died in 1424. After Johann's brother Heinrich died as a knight in Livonia in 1420 , Johann ruled alone. To counter the attacks of the Hussites to be prepared, joined Johann to combat in 1424 an alliance with the Glatzer Governor Puta d. J.

From the Hummelschloss , which at that time did not yet belong to the Glatzer Land, the Hussites undertook several raids into the Glatzer Land and Silesia over the next few years. During the ravaging procession of the Hussites in March 1428 through Silesia and the diocese , Johann fought alongside Putas the Elder. J. and saved Münsterberg from destruction by paying a large sum of money to the Hussites. In December 1428 the Hussites pitched a camp near Altwilmsdorf in order to seize the town of Glatz from there . Puta d. J., his father-in-law Albrecht von Kolditz , Wenzel II von Troppau and Johann von Münsterberg moved with their army to Altwilmsdorf to attack the Hussite camp. In the subsequent battle of Altwilmsdorf , which ended with the victory of the Hussites, Johann von Münsterberg was killed. With him the piastic branch of the Munsterberg dukes died out in the male line. His duchy fell back as a settled fiefdom to King Sigismund , who gave it to his loyal follower Puta the Elder on August 13, 1429. J. pawned.

Johann's place of burial is not known. In his honor, a memorial chapel was built at the presumed place of his death .

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