Wenceslas (Sagan)

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Wenceslas of Sagan (* between 1420 and 1434; † April 29, 1488 in Breslau ) was the non-ruling Duke of Sagan . He came from the Glogau branch of the Silesian Piasts .

Life

Wenzel was the third-born son of Duke Johann I von Sagan and the Scholastica von Sachsen-Wittenberg (1391–1463), a daughter of Elector Rudolf III. Since he was still a minor when his father died in 1439, he and his youngest brother Johann II were initially under the tutelage of their eldest brother Balthasar .

Since Wenzel suffered from a handicap, when the Duchy of Sagan was divided up in 1449/50, his younger brother John II, who received the Priebuser land that had belonged to Sagan since 1413, had to commit himself to providing Wenzel's financial support. On the other hand, the two older brothers Balthasar and Rudolf received the Saganer share and had to use it to support their widowed mother and sisters.

Because of his handicap, Wenceslas did not take part in political events. From 1454 he was under the tutelage of Johann II. After Balthasar died in 1472, Johann II reunited Priebus with the Duchy of Sagan, which he sold to the Saxon Duke Albrecht the Brave in the same year . He had to commit to taking over an annuity for Wenzel. In 1476 Wenceslas waived his inheritance claims to the ducal half of Glogau for 400 Hungarian guilders . In the same year he entered the monastery at the St. Barbara Church in Wroclaw. In his will drawn up in 1478, he determined his fortune for the construction and furnishing of this church. His body was buried there in 1488.

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