Wenceslas (Troppau-Ratibor)

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Wenzel von Ratibor (also: Wenzel I. von Ratibor und Jägerndorf ; Czech: Václav IV. Ratibořský ; * around 1405 , † October 29, 1456 ) was 1424-1437 together with his brother Nikolaus V. Duke of Opava-Ratibor and Jägerndorf and from 1437 until his death sole Duke of Ratibor. He came from the Troppau-Ratibor family of the Troppauer Přemyslids .

Life

His parents were John II "the Iron" and Helene of Lithuania, a niece of the Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło . Together with his father and other Silesian princes, Wenzel fought on the Polish side in the so-called hunger war , which was waged between the Teutonic Order and Poland four years after the Battle of Tannenberg in 1414 and ended in October of that year with an armistice.

Although Wenzel and his older brother Nikolaus V were probably of legal age when their father died in 1424, their mother Helene von Lithuania probably took over the reign of their inheritance until 1428. In addition, until 1449 she was titled as Mistress von Pless , which was probably assigned to her as a personal property. Wenceslas and his brother Nicholas V ruled over the inherited territories together until 1437. When it was divided in 1437, Wenzel, who married in the same year, received the Duchy of Ratibor, while his brother Nikolaus V. took Jägerndorf, Freudenthal , Rybnik , Pless and Bauerwitz .

After the end of 1437 the Bohemian state parliament voted for the majority of the Habsburg Albrecht II as the successor to the Bohemian King Sigismund and a minority elected Casimir , son of the Polish King Władysław III, who was not yet eleven . , In September 1438 a Polish army attacked the Opole and Ratibor areas, devastating them. Thereupon Wenzel von Ratibor and Wenceslaus I von Zator and his brothers Primislaus / Przemko III declared themselves . von Tost and Johann IV. von Auschwitz prepared to conditionally recognize the eleven-year-old Casimir. However, in November 1438 all the Silesian princes and estates in Breslau paid homage to the elected King Albrecht II.

After the death of his brother Nicholas V in 1452, Wenzel von Ratibor took over the guardianship of his underage sons Johann IV. Ä. and Wenzel von Rybnik . Nevertheless, her stepmother Barbara Rockenberg ruled Ratibor, Jägerndorf, Freudenthal and Rybnik until 1464. From 1452 to 1462 she was mistress of Pless, which was probably due to her as a treasure.

Wenzel von Ratibor died in 1456. His body was buried in the church of the Ratibor Dominican monastery.

family

In 1437 Wenceslas of Ratibor married Margaret of Szamotuły († 1464), a daughter of the Meseritzer Kastelans Vincent von Szamotuły. Children came from marriage

  1. Johann III. d. J. († 1493), ∞ around 1478 Magdalena († 1501), daughter of the Opole Duke Nikolaus I.
  2. Katharina († around 1480), ∞ Włodko / Władisław von Danaborz († 1467)
  3. Helena († around 1480), ∞ Jan von Ostroróg († 1501), Palatine of Posen
  4. Anna († around 1480)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The census is given differently in the sources, as often no distinction is made between the Troppau and Troppau-Ratibor lines.
  2. ^ Rudolf Žáček: Dějiny Slezska v datech , p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Wenceslaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenceslas I of Ratibor and Jägerndorf; Václav IV. Ratibořský (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Ratibor and Jägerndorf
DATE OF BIRTH around 1409
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1456