Wenzel (Jägerndorf-Rybnik)

Wenzel von Rybnik (also Wenzel II von Jägerndorf and Rybnik , Czech Václav V. z Rybnika a Pštíny , Polish Wacław III Rybnicki ; * around 1440; † (23 January / 23 June) 1479 in Glatz ) was from 1452 to 1464 Duke of Jägerndorf and from 1464 to 1474 Duke of Rybnik . He came from the Troppau-Ratibor family of the Troppauer Přemyslids .

Life

Wenceslaus was the younger son of Duke Nicholas V of Jägerndorf and Ratibor , who was an opponent of the Hussites . Since Wenzel was not of legal age when his father died in 1452, he was initially under the tutelage of his uncle Wenzel von Ratibor († 1456) and his stepmother Barbara von Rockenberg. In 1460 she handed over the property to Wenzel and his older brother Johann IV. Ä. († 1483). The brothers ruled the Duchy of Jägerndorf together until 1464 and then divided it in such a way that Johann Jägerndorf, Freudenthal and Loslau received, while Wenzel Rybnik with Sohrau and Pleß were spun off.

During the armed conflict between Bohemia and Hungary for supremacy in Bohemia, Wenceslaus supported the Bohemian King Vladislav II . Therefore, he became the victim of a coalition formed by the Hungarian rival king Matthias Corvinus , which the Opava Duke Viktorin and his brother Heinrich d. Ä. as well as Primislaus II. von Teschen, Nikolaus II. von Opole and his brother Johann II. belonged. Wenceslaus was overthrown in 1474, captured by King Matthias Corvinus and passed on to Heinrich the Elder. Ä. handed over by Münsterberg. His brother Viktorin received Wenceslas possessions, but lost them in 1479 or later.

Duke Wenzel, who was not married and left no heirs, died in 1479 in Glatz prison .

literature

Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical places . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , pp. 456–459 and family tables on pp. 600–601.
Rudolf Žáček: Dějiny Slezska v datech. Libri, Praha 2004, ISBN 80-7277-172-8 , pp. 116, 424 and 443.

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genealogy

Individual evidence

↑ The census is given differently in the sources, as often no distinction is made between the Troppau and Troppau-Ratibor lines.

personal data
SURNAME	Wenceslaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wenzel von Rybnik; Wenzel von Jägerndorf and Rybnik; Wenceslaus II of Troppau-Ratibor; Václav V. z Rybnika a Pštíny (Czech); Wacław III Rybnicki (Polish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Duke of Jägerndorf and Rybnik
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1440
DATE OF DEATH	1479
Place of death	Bald

[1] The census is given differently in the sources, as often no distinction is made between the Troppau and Troppau-Ratibor lines.