Mieszko (Bytom)

Mieszko von Beuthen (also Mestko / Mesko von Beuthen ; Polish Mieszko bytomski ; Czech Měšek Bytomsko-Koselský ; * 1295/1300; † 1344 in Veszprém ) was Duke of Bytom . 1328–1334 he was Bishop of Neutra and 1334–1344 Bishop of Veszprém and prior of the Hungarian Province of St. John. He was also Chancellor of the Hungarian Queen Elisabeth . He came from the Beuthen branch of the Silesian Piasts .

Life

Mieszko was the youngest son of Duke Casimir II of Bytom and Helena, whose origins are unknown. They designated him for a spiritual career. After the death of his father in 1312, his older brothers kept the estates that were transferred to them during his father's lifetime: Boleslaus was Duke of Tost , Wladislaus was Duke of Cosel , later von Beuthen and Ziemowit was first Duke of Beuthen and from 1337 Duke of Gleiwitz . Mieszko, who probably got the Duchy of Sewerien , was already a member of the Order of St. John in 1313 and two years later became prior of the Hungarian Province of St. John.

Since Mieszko's sister Maria was married to the Hungarian King Karl I. Robert , her brothers also maintained good relations with the Hungarian royal court, with which they remained connected even after Maria's death in 1317. Mieszko's brother Boleslaus probably lived at the Hungarian royal court since 1315 and was appointed Archbishop of Gran in 1321 . Shortly before his death in 1328, he succeeded in getting Mieszko to take the bishopric of Neutra , although the cathedral chapter there opposed it. Presumably in the same year Mieszko renounced the office of Johanniterprior and in favor of his brother Wladislaus from the Duchy of Sewerien. Since the resistance of the Neutra Cathedral Chapter against him continued in the following years, he was appointed to the bishopric of Veszprém on the recommendation of the Hungarian Queen Elisabeth in 1334 . In the same year he was appointed Chancellor of Queen Elisabeth. 1342 he participated in the coronation of the Hungarian king I. Ludwig part. His body was buried in the Veszprém Cathedral.

literature

• 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. 145 and 149.
• Rudolf Žáček: Dějiny Slezska v datech. Nakladatelství Libri, Praha 2004, ISBN 80-7277-172-8 , pp. 414 and 506.

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