Sophia of Dyhrn

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Sophia von Dyhrn (also called von Dohre / n or de Dere ; * 1255/1257; † 1323 ) was a German mistress and by marriage Duchess of Liegnitz . Her only son Jaroslaw von Liegnitz was the cousin of Duchess Agnes von Habsburg , sister-in-law of King Albrecht I (HRR) .

Life

Sophia von Dyhrn with her husband Duke Boleslaw II.

Sophia was born as the daughter of Konrad von Dyhrn and his wife Elisabeth von Haugwitz . Her family was of a knightly class and came from the Meissnian nobility , who had also been wealthy in the Silesian Duchy of Glogau since the 13th century .

Around 1270, when she was 15 or 13, she had a love affair with Duke Boleslaw II of Liegnitz , who had been married to Adelheid (Euphemia) von Pommerellen since 1261 . This marriage broke up because of the relationship between the duke and Sophie von Dyhrn and officially ended with its annulment in 1275. Duchess Adelheid, who gave birth to the duke's daughter, left her husband and fled to Danzig .

Around 1277 Sophia married Duke Boleslaw II in a morganatic marriage . The marriage did not last longer than a year, as Duke Boleslaw died in 1278. The marriage had only one son, Yaroslav, who died in childhood.

After her husband's death, Duchess Sophia lived in Poznan in Greater Poland , where she married an unknown Polish nobleman for the second time. The duchess died around 1323.

Peter von Pitschen (1328-1389), canon at the Brieger Kollegiatstift St. Hedwig, described Sophia von Dyhrn in his "Chronica principum Poloniae" as a wicked adulteress and generally a woman of the worst kind, who with witchcraft so enchanted the Duke that he could no longer live without her .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 407.
personal data
SURNAME Sophia of Dyhrn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mistress, later Duchess of Liegnitz
DATE OF BIRTH around 1255
DATE OF DEATH 1323