Wenceslas I (Auschwitz-Zator)

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Wenceslas I of Zator (also Wenceslas Auschwitz-Zator * 1415/ 1418 , † 1465 ) was 1433 / 34-1445 Duke of Auschwitz and Tost and from 1445 to 1465 Duke of Zator . He came from the Teschen branch of the Silesian Piasts .

Origin and family

Wenceslas parents were Casimir I and Anna († 1426/33), a daughter of Duke Henry VIII of Glogau . Around 1450 he married Maria Kopczowska († after 1468) from Sewerien . Children came from marriage

  • Casimir II († 1490); ⚭ 1482 Machna († 1508), daughter of the Jägerndorfer Duke Nikolaus V († 1490)
  • Wenceslas II († 1484/87)
  • Johann V. († 1513); ⚭ 1475/77 Barbara († 1510), daughter of Duke Boleslaus II of Teschen .
  • Wladislaus († 1494); ⚭ Anna NN († 1494)
  • Sophie († around 1466)
  • Katharina († around 1466)
  • Agnes († 1465)

Life

After his father's death in 1433/34, Wenceslaus I took over for his brothers, Primislaus / Przemko III, who were not yet of legal age . and Johann IV. the reign over the inherited areas. When the division was not made until 1445, the area of ​​Zator was spun off for him, which became an independent duchy, which was a fiefdom of the Crown of Bohemia . Primislaus / Przemko III. took over the Duchy of Tost and Johann IV was now the sole Duke of Auschwitz.

After the end of 1437 the Bohemian Landtag elected the majority of the Habsburg Albrecht II as the successor to the Bohemian King Sigismund and a minority elected Casimir IV , the son of the Polish King Władysław III, who was not yet eleven . , he asked the Bishop of Wroclaw Konrad von Oels to recognize Casimir IV as King of Bohemia. The bishop refused on the grounds that only the right of inheritance was decisive for Silesia and thus the recognition of Albrecht II. After a Polish army raided Upper Silesian territories in September 1438, Wenceslaus I declared himself, on behalf of his brothers, for a conditional recognition of Kasimir ready; likewise Wenzel von (Troppau) -Ratibor . 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 . On their side were Wenceslas I and his brothers, who, however, were led by King Władysław III. were defeated. Subsequently they had to cede a castle to Poland and have the fortifications razed by Zator . In addition, Wenceslaus I had to pay homage to Zator in 1447 and recognize Polish sovereignty, which made him, and after his death in 1465 his sons, vassals of the Polish Crown .

The third-born son Johann V, who outlived his brothers and thus became the sole owner of the Duchy of Zator in 1494, sold it to Poland in the same year, whereby he was granted a lifelong usufruct. With his death in 1513 the lineage Zator of the Teschener Piast died out.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Žáček: Dějiny Slezska v datech. 2004, p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Wenceslaus I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenzel I. von Zator; Wenzel from Auschwitz-Zator
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Teschen and Zator
DATE OF BIRTH between 1415 and 1418
DATE OF DEATH 1465