Primislaus II. (Glogau)

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Primislaus II von Glogau (also Primko / Przemko von Glogau ; * 1301/1308 ; † 11 January 1331 ) was together with his four brothers Duke of Glogau and Lord of Greater Poland from 1309 to 1312 . From 1312 to 1318/19 he was together with his brother Johann , then until about 1323 together with his brother Heinrich IV. And then until his death in 1331 sole Duke of Glogau. He came from the Glogau branch of the Silesian Piasts .

Life

Primislaus parents were Heinrich III. von Glogau († 1309) and Mechthild († 1318), daughter of Duke Albrecht of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . Around 1324/25 he married Konstanze († 1360/63), a daughter of the Schweidnitz Duke Bernhard II. The marriage remained childless.

After the death of their father Heinrich III., Who, in addition to his Silesian possessions, was also master of almost all of Greater Poland , Primislaus and his brothers inherited in 1309 Heinrich IV († 1342), Konrad I († 1366), Johann († 1361) / 65) and Boleslaus († 1321) its areas. They administered this jointly until 1312 under the tutelage of their mother Mechthild von Braunschweig.

In order to prevent a fragmentation of their territories, the five brothers initially divided their inheritance into two parts on February 29, 1312. Primislaus and the eldest brother Heinrich IV. As well as the fourth-born brother Johann received the larger western area with the cities Steinau , Sagan , Grünberg , Crossen and Posen . Glogau , Beuthen and Freystadt also belonged to these three brothers , but they were initially assigned to their mother as personal belongings for her life . The second-born Konrad I and the third-born Boleslaus received the eastern area with the towns of Gnesen , Kalisch , Oels and Wohlau . They lost their Greater Poland territories as early as 1314 to the Polish duke and later King Władysław I. Ellenlang .

In 1318 Primislaus brother Heinrich IV protested at the same time for his brothers and other Silesian dukes against the collection of St. Peter's penny in the form of poll tax, which was not common in Silesia at that time . The objection to the papal chair in Avignon was rejected by the Pope. As the dukes continued to refuse to pay, an interdict was imposed on the diocese of Wroclaw . On June 23, 1323, Henry IV addressed the Pope on behalf of his brothers under the title "Duke of Silesia, Heir of the Kingdom of Poland, Lord of Glogau and Posen" and assured him that he and his brothers would pay the Peter pfennigs had now ordered in their lands. At the same time he asked the Pope for his protection in case the emperor or the Roman king wanted to extend their feudal sovereignty over Heinrich's and his brothers lands.

After the death of their childless brother Boleslaus / Bolko in 1322, the brothers divided the entire property again. Primislaus / Primko received Glogau, Heinrich IV. Sagan , Konrad I. Namslau and Oels and Johann received Steinau . Although Primislaus / Primkos brothers voluntarily transferred their territories in Breslau to the Bohemian King John of Luxembourg on April 29 and May 9, 1329 , whereby they were granted special inheritance privileges, Primislaus refused to do the same and also to become a Bohemian vassal . Perhaps that is why he succumbed to a poison attack by his subjects on January 11, 1331. Although his legal heirs were his brothers Heinrich IV. And Johann von Steinau and Primislaus / Primko's widow Konstanze was entitled to the city of Glogau as a personal asset, there were subsequent inheritance disputes over the Duchy of Glogau, which eventually led to its division into a "Bohemian-royal" and led a "ducal" half. The reason for this was that the brother Johann von Steinau had sold his right to the inheritance of half the Duchy of Glogau to the Bohemian King Johann von Luxemburg before Primislaus / Primko's death . It was not until 1342 that Heinrich V von Glogau , the son of Duke Heinrich IV of the same name, managed to get the half that his father was entitled to.

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