Casimir II (Teschen)

Casimir II of Teschen (Czech Kazimír II. Těšínský , Polish Kazimierz II cieszyński ; * between 1448 and 1453 ; † December 13, 1528 ) was Duke of Teschen from 1477–1528 , Duke of Glogau from 1474 and Lord of Pless from 1480–1517 . 1497-1504 and 1507-1517 he held the position of top provincial governor of Silesia and then until his death in the Office of the Regional Governor of Opava , which was his inheritance rights.

Origin and family

Casimir II came from the Teschen branch of the Silesian Piasts . His parents were Duke Boleslaus II and Anna Bielska († 1490), daughter of the Moscow voivode Fyodor Belsky.

Before February 15, 1480 Kasimir married Johanna, a daughter of the Opava Duke Viktorin from his first marriage to Margarete, a daughter of Hynek Ptáček von Pirkstein . The sons came from marriage

• Friedrich († 1507)
• Wenceslas II († 1524)

Life

Since Casimir was only four years old when his father died in 1452, his uncle Przemislaus II was appointed his guardian. In 1460 he transferred the rule of Bielitz to Casimir . After Przemislaus II died in 1477 without male descendants, Kasimir was the sole representative or head of the Teschen family branch and took over the reign of the entire Duchy of Teschen.

After the death of the Bohemian King George of Podebrady , Casimir and other Silesian princes were among the companions of the future King Vladislav II , who left Krakow on July 25, 1471 to go to Prague for election. Although he was one of the followers of Vladislav II, he was able to keep his property even after the Peace of Olomouc , with which Silesia fell to the opposing king Matthias Corvinus in 1479 . In 1480 he acquired the rule of Pleß from his father-in-law Viktorin von Podiebrad, for which he was released from the feudal relationship with the king in 1500 and converted to an allod and which he was therefore able to sell to the Upper Hungarian mining entrepreneur Alexius Thurzo in 1517 for 40,000 gold guilders .

After Corvin's death in 1490, Casimir was appointed governor of Silesia by King Vadislav II in 1491. During the Silesian Prince's Day in 1497, which met in Neisse , the Opole Duke Nicholas II carried out an attack on Casimir II. Although the attack failed, Nicholas was sentenced to immediate death by the city court in Neisse and beheaded. The background to the fact is not known.

In 1501 Casimir did not succeed in getting his older son Friedrich to act as coadjutor of Bishop Johann IV Roth against the Breslau cathedral chapter . Likewise, he did not succeed in fighting the robbery in all of Silesia. Therefore, King Vladislav II transferred the office of governor of Silesia to his brother Sigismund in 1504 . In the same year Kasimir was involved, together with the Bohemian Chancellor Albrecht von Kolowrat and the Oberlandeshauptmann Sigismund, in the conclusion of the so-called Kolowratschen Treaty , with which the legal affiliation to Bohemia should be strengthened. In future, in addition to Silesians, members of the other countries of the Crown of Bohemia were to become bishops and canons of Wroclaw and be allowed to receive ecclesiastical fiefs. Nevertheless, in 1506, Johannes V. Thurzo from Hungary was elected to succeed the late Bishop Johann IV. Roth.

After Sigismund's coronation as King of Poland in 1506, his successor as Governor of Silesia was again Casimir II. In addition, he received the hereditary governor of Opava and the lifelong usufruct of the Duchy of Glogau , which he however sold to Friedrich II of Liegnitz .

He granted numerous privileges to the cities of his duchy. In 1492 and 1512 he approved two more annual fairs for the city of Pless. In 1482 he made Schwarzwasser town and in 1491 he granted him town charter valid in the duchy. As a result, it came back from the rule of Pless to the Duchy of Teschen.

Casimir II died in 1528. As he survived his two sons, his four-year-old grandson Wenceslaus III inherited his property . Adam , who was under the tutelage of his mother Anna and his future father-in-law Johann von Pernstein until 1545 . The orphaned office of governor of Silesia was given to Karl I. von Münsterberg .

literature

• Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , p. 411 f. and 491 and family tables on pp. 598-599.
• Gottlieb Biermann : History of the Duchy of Teschen. 2nd, revised edition. Karl Prochaska publishing house and court bookstore, Teschen 1894.
• 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. 190, 217, 223, 227 f. and 229-234.
• Moritz Landwehr von Pragenau: History of the city of Teschen (= sources and representations on Silesian history. Vol. 18). Edited by Walter Kuhn. Holzner, Würzburg 1976, ISBN 3-7995-6136-6 .
• Rudolf Žáček: Dějiny Slezska v datech. Nakladatelství Libri, Praha 2004, ISBN 80-7277-172-8 , pp. 119, 124-126, 136, 419, 441 and 450.

Web links

• Genealogy Teschen
• Genealogy Belski
• Genealogy Podiebrad

predecessor	Office	successor
Przemislaus II.	Duke of Teschen 1477–1528	Wenceslaus III Adam