Conrad VII. (Oels)

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Konrad VII. Von Oels (also Konrad VII. "The old white one" , Latin Conradus Albus ; * around 1396 , † February 14, 1452 in Breslau ) was from 1412 to 1450 partly together with his brothers Herzog von Oels , Cosel , Steinau as well half Bytom . He came from the Glogau branch of the Silesian Piasts .

Life

Konrad was the fourth born son of Duke Konrad III. von Oels († 1412) and the Jutta / Gutha († 1416/19), whose origin is not known. In 1437 he married Katharina NN, who died in 1449. The name and origin of his second wife, whom he married in 1450, are not known.

Konrad VII had four brothers who also had the first name Konrad, which is why they are referred to by individual surnames to differentiate them, as well as two sisters. Although Conrad VII was given to the Cracow court by his father , where he served as page to Queen Anna von Cilli , he fought with his own troops in the Battle of Tannenberg on the side of the Teutonic Order in 1410 . He got into Polish captivity, from which he was presumably freed after his father and brother Conrad IV. "Senior" in 1411 participated in the First Peace of Thorner . During the so-called hunger war , which in 1414 was again waged between the Teutonic Order and Poland and in October d. J. was ended by an armistice, Konrad VII fought together with other Silesian princes on the Polish side. Three years later, his youngest brother Konrad VIII “the boy” went to Marienburg to become a knight of the Teutonic Order.

After the death of the father Konrad III. In 1412 Konrad VII and his brothers Konrad V. "Kanthner" , Konrad VI. "Dechant" and Konrad VIII. "The boy" initially under the tutelage of their eldest brother Konrad IV. "Senior"; he initially took over the joint government over the duchies of Oels, Cosel and Steinau and half of Beuthen. Even after the formal division of the paternal inheritance in 1416, the brothers managed some of their territories jointly. Since Konrad IV. "Senior", Konrad VI. "Dechant" and Konrad VIII "the boy" belonged to the clergy, the brothers Konrad VII "the old white" and Konrad V. "Kanthner" exercised the regency and were therefore beneficiaries of the inherited possessions.

After the eldest brother Conrad IV. "Senior" became Bishop of Breslau in 1417 , he bought Kanth from himself and his brothers by virtue of his office, which had belonged to the Dukes of Oels since 1379 and which he pledged to the cathedral chapter to cover the financial needs of his brothers and sisters to reduce the episcopal canteen. In 1431 the brothers Konrad "the old white" and Konrad V. "Kanthner" founded a Minorite monastery in Cosel . In 1434 they acquired Konstadt from Duke Ludwig II of Liegnitz .

Like their episcopal brother Konrad IV. “Senior”, Konrad “the old white” and Konrad “Kanthner” also fought the Hussites . In 1428 they tried unsuccessfully to prevent their devastation in the Duchy of Opava . On April 4, 1431 they attacked Gleiwitz , which was occupied by the Hussites and where religious talks were taking place in which Siegmund Koribut, a nephew of the Lithuanian prince Witold , was involved. Presumably for this reason the Hussites undertook a raid in 1432 in the Duchy of Oels, which they had largely spared until then, but were defeated by the two Konrads near Steinau . Together with their brother Konrad IV Senior, other dukes and the cities of Breslau , Schweidnitz and Neisse , they certified on September 13, 1432 that they owed 10,000 shocks of groschen for the cities of Nimptsch , Kreuzburg and Ottmachau still occupied by the Hussites .

Emperor Sigismund rewarded her efforts in the fight against the Hussites in his capacity as King of Bohemia in 1434 by transferring the customs duties from Hundsfeld and Hünern . In 1437 he confirmed to them the enfeoffment of their territories in full , so that the Bohemian sovereign would not have the right to revert if the childless Konrad "the old white man" died . After Konrad “Kanthner” died of the plague two years later, Konrad “the old white” took over the guardianship of his underage sons Konrad IX. "The black" and Konrad X. "the young white" .

In the disputes that followed the death of the Bohemian King Albrecht II in 1439 about his successor between the queen widow Elisabeth of Luxembourg and the Polish-Hungarian king Władysław III. Conrad VII was the only one of the Silesian princes to support the candidacy of the Jagiellonian . It should not be so much political considerations as the personal contrast to his episcopal brother Konrad IV. "Senior" as well as to his ward Konrad IX. and Konrad X., all of whom supported the Austro-Bohemian party. Conrad VII raged against his two wards since the death of their father Konrad "Kanthner" in 1439, because they demanded the surrender of the entire paternal inheritance. In order to reinforce this demand, Conrad VII was imprisoned in 1444 by his brother Konrad IV "Senior" in Neisse .

In contradiction to the total enfeoffment agreed and confirmed in 1437 by the Bohemian sovereign, the childless Conrad VII intended to transfer his territorial shares to the Dukes of Sagan , who were the great-nephews of Konrad's late sister Euphemia , who with Albrecht III. von Sachsen-Wittenberg had been married. After he also refused after the death of the Dowager Duchess Margarethe in 1449/50, Wohlau her personal belongings to her sons Konrad IX. and Conrad X., they captured him. They forced him to resign from the government and had him Ausgedinge in Breslau. He died there two years later. His burial place is unknown.

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SURNAME Conrad VII.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conrad VII the old white man; Conradus Albus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Oels, Cosel, Beuthen and Steinau
DATE OF BIRTH around 1396
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1452
Place of death Wroclaw