Przemislaus III. (Teschen-Tost)

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Przemislaus III. von Tost (also Primislaus / Przemko III. from Teschen-Tost , Primislaus / Przemko III. from Teschen-Auschwitz ; according to another count also Primislaus / Przemko II. from Teschen-Auschwitz ; Czech Přemysl III. Osvětimsko-Zátorský ; * around 1425 ; † 1484 in Tost ) was 1433 / 34–1445 Duke of Auschwitz , 1445–1484 Duke of Tost and 1445–1465 Duke of Gleiwitz . He came from the Teschen branch of the Silesian Piasts .

Life

Wenceslas parents were Casimir I and Anna († 1426/33), a daughter of Duke Henry VIII of Glogau .

In 1463 Przemislaus / Primislaus married Machna († 1468/72), a daughter of the Opole Duke Nicholas I , who brought the Ujest bishop's estate pledged to the Opole dukes as a dowry . The marriage had the only daughter Margaretha , who was born in 1467/68 and died in 1531. She was abbess of the Wroclaw Poor Clare Monastery .

When his father died in 1433/34, Primislaus and his younger brother Johann IV were not yet of legal age. Therefore, her older brother Wenceslaus I took over the guardianship of them and the government over the inherited areas. When the division took place in 1445, Primislaus received the Duchy of Tost with Gleiwitz, while for Wenceslaus I the area of Zator was spun off, which became an independent duchy. The duchy of Auschwitz, reduced in size, was given to the youngest brother Johann IV.

In the armed conflict over the Bohemian succession to the throne after the death of King Sigismund in 1437 between the mostly elected Habsburg Albrecht II and the not yet eleven-year-old Casimir IV , a son of the Polish king Władysław III. , a Polish army devastated Upper Silesian areas in order to force the Silesian princes to recognize Kasimir IV. Thereupon Primislaus' brother Wenceslaus I declared himself ready at the same time on behalf of his brothers for a conditional recognition of Kasimir IV. However, in November 1438 all the Silesian princes and estates in Breslau paid homage to the elected King Albrecht II. After his death in 1439, the struggle for the Bohemian succession flared up again. They were from the Polish King Władysław III. against Elisabeth von Luxemburg and her followers, who upheld the claims of their son Ladislaus Postumus , who was born in early 1440 . Primislaus III was also on their side. and his brothers, who, however, of King Władysław III. were defeated. Subsequently they had to cede a castle to Poland and have the fortifications razed by Zator . In addition, Primislaus had to pay homage to Zator's brother Wenceslaus I in 1447 and recognize Polish sovereignty, which made him, and after his death in 1465 his sons, vassals of the Polish Crown .

After Duke Wenceslas I of Teschen had sold the Duchy of Sewerien to the Krakow Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki in 1443 without the consent of Primislaus and his brothers , a conflict developed between him and Primislaus, which was only resolved in Krakow in 1447. It flared up again in 1450 after Primislaus and his troops besieged the episcopal palace in Krakow in 1450. Thereupon Polish and / or episcopal troops invaded the Toster area and devastated it.

In 1452 Primislaus supported his brother John IV in his war with the Polish King Casimir IV. Although they pleaded guilty in 1453, Primislaus continued to attack Polish merchants who were passing through his Toster area. In the same year a peace agreement was reached in Gliwice , with which Primislaus had to agree to the sale of the Duchy of Auschwitz by his brother Johann IV to Casimir IV. In 1465 Primislaus sold Gleiwitz to his brother Johann IV.

After the death of King George of Podebrady in 1471, Primislaus and his brother John IV supported the election of the Jagiellonian Vladislav II. At the end of July 1471 they accompanied him along with other Silesian princes on his way from Krakow to the coronation of the king in Prague. Since both the Opole region and Moravia were devoted to the opposing king Matthias Corvinus , they had to take the detour via Auschwitz , Troppau , Neisse and Glatz . Subsequently Primislaus and his brother Johann IV were fought by Matthias Corvinus. Finally, in 1469, they paid homage to him in Olomouc.

Primislaus, who had lived in Tost since 1445 , died there in 1484 without male descendants. His body was buried in St. Peters Church in Tost. His little duchy of Tost was drawn in by Matthias Corvinus as a settled fiefdom and transferred to his son Johann Corvinus .

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  1. ^ Rudolf Žáček: Dějiny Slezska v datech. 2004, p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Przemislaus III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Primislaus III. from Tost; Primislaus III. from Auschwitz-Tost; Primislaus II of Teschen-Auschwitz; Przemko von Tost; Přemysl III. Osvětimsko-Zátorsky (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Auschwitz and Tost
DATE OF BIRTH around 1425
DATE OF DEATH 1484
Place of death Tost