Pentecost Peace of Glatz

The 1137 Pentecostal Peace of Glatz ended the Bohemian-Polish wars and established a permanent border between Silesia , Bohemia and Moravia . It was completed in the then Bohemian city ​​of Glatz .

prehistory

In the 10th century, Bohemia took a leading position politically in Central and Eastern Europe. Therefore, the Přemyslid Vratislav I managed to take Moravian and Central Silesian territories into possession, which his son Boleslav I was able to expand.

A serious conflict arose at the end of the 10th century when the Piast Duke Mieszko I and his son, Bolesław I the Brave , conquered large parts of Silesia. The fall of power in Poland with the death of Bolesław in 1025 made it possible for the Bohemian Duke Břetislav I to invade Silesia again and claim the conquered territories.

Because of the ongoing disputes, Henry II obtained a compromise peace at the Quedlinburg Court Congress in 1054 , which left Poland in the occupied parts of Silesia and imposed an annual tribute to Bohemia. The strategically important region of Kłodzko remained with Bohemia.

Nevertheless, Silesia remained a permanent theater of war in the following decades. Eventually the disputes and repeated incursions of the Bohemian Duke Sobieslav to Poland and vice versa of the Polish Duke Bolesław III. Crooked mouth to Bohemia through the mediation of Emperor Lothar III. ended with the Pentecostal Peace of 1137.

In addition to Bohemia's relinquishment of sovereignty over Silesia, a clear border line was also established. The Glatzer Land and parts of the Golensizenland south of the Zinna River ( Leobschütz , Jägerndorf and Troppau ) remained in Bohemia.

The Whitsun Peace of Glatz was ceremonially sealed in the Silesian town of Nimptsch at the Nimptsch Castle . On this occasion, Bolesławs III took over. Son and successor Władysław II. Sponsorship of the youngest son of Duke Soběslav I, Wenceslaus II .

literature

• Joachim Bahlcke : Silesia and the Silesians . ISBN 3-7844-2781-2
• Ludwig Petry among others: History of Silesia. From prehistoric times to 1526 . Vol. 1, Sigmaringen 1988, ISBN 3-7995-6341-5

Web links

• http://www.grafschaft-glatz.de/kultur/kultur02.htm
• http://www.kulturwerk-schlesien.de/kulturspiegel/staedte/portraits/art77,174.html?fCMS=07fde159b55ac74fb793c80056cbb33b

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Žáček: Dějiny Slezska v datech . Praha 2004, ISBN 80-7277-172-8 , p. 26.