Piast 4

The senior branch inherited Silesia, which they subdivided relentlessly until it comprised several small states. Within a couple generations the Silesians drifted away from their Polish loyalties and came under the Bohemian (and, more generally, the German) ambit.

Wladislaw II "Wygnaniec", Pr of Cracow and Silesia (1139-45), *1105, +Altenburg 30.5.1159, bur Pegau nr Altenburg; m.1125/27 Agnes of Austria (+1160/63); they had issue:

A1. Boleslaw I "Wysoki" Duke of Silesia and Breslau 1163, *1127, +Lesnica 7.12.1201, bur Cistercians, Lubiaz; 1m: Krakow 1142 Swinislawa/Wiaceslava (+1155/63) dau.of Pr Wsewelod of Kiev; 2m: Christina N (+1204/08) /OR Adele von Sulzbach
- B5. [2m.] Henryk I "Brodaty" (Heinrich "the Bearded") Duke of Lower Silesia (1201-38), Cracow 1228, Great Poland 1234 and Opollen and Ratibor, *1165/70, +Krosno Odrzanske 19.3.1238; m.1188/92 [St.] Hedwig von Andechs (*ca 1174 +15.10.1243)
  - C1. Boleslaw, *1190/4, +1206/08
  - C2. Konrad, *1191, +Czerwony Kosciol pod Legnica 10/11.9.1213 or 4.9./4.11.1235/37
  - C3. Henryk II "Pobozny" Duke of Lower Silesia (1238-41), Cracow and Great Poland (1238-41), *1191/96, +k.a.Liegnitz 9.4.1241, bur Sw.Jakub Breslau; m.1214/18 Anna of Bohemia (+23.6.1265)
    - D1. Boleslaw II "Rogatka" Duke of Silesia (1242-78) and Liegnitz-Glogau (1248-78), *1220/24, +ca 25.12.1278; 1m: 8.5.-18.10.1242 Hedwig von Anhalt (+1259); 2m: after 1260 Alenta=Eufemia, dau.of Duke Sambor II of Pomerelia
      - E1. Henryk V "Gruby" (Heinrich V "the Fat") Duke of Liegnitz 1278, Jauern 1274 and Breslau 1290, *1248/50, +22.2.1296, bur Sw.Klara, Breslau; m.1277/79 Elzbieta of Great Poland (*1263 +28.9.1304)
        F1. Boleslaw III "Szczodry" Duke of Breslau, Liegnitz and Brieg (1311-42), *23.9.1291, +Brzeg n.O. 21.4.1352, bur Lubiaz; 1m: 1308/10 Margareta of Bohemia (*21.2.1296 +8.4.1322); 2m: 1326 Katharina Subic (+1358); for his issue see HERE
        F2. Henryk VI Duke of Breslau 1311, *18.3.1294, +24.11.1335, bur St.Clara, Breslau; m.Breslau 1310 Anna of Austria (*1280 +19.3.1327)
        G1. Elzbieta, *1311/12, +1328; m.before 10.1.1322 Duke Konrad I of Öls (+22.12.1366)
        G2. Euphemia=Ofka, *1312, +21.3.after 1384; m.before 29.10.1325 Duke Boleslaw I of Falkenberg (+1362/65)
        G3. Malgorzata, Abbess of St.Clara in Breslau 1372, *ca 1313, +8.3.1379
        
        F3. Wladislaw Duke of Liegnitz 1311, *6.6.1296, +13.1.after 1352; m.after 13.8.1325 (div before 13.1.1329) Anna of Masovia
        F4. Jadwiga, a nun at St.Clara, Breslau, +after 3.2.1343; m.1289/95 Otto of Brandenburg (+1295)
        F5. Euphemia, +VI.1347; m.ca 1300 Duke Otto II of Carinthia, Ct of Tyrol and Görz (+25.5.1310)
        F6. Anna, Abbess of St.Clara in Breslau, *1284, +2.10.1343
        F7. Elzbieta, Abbess of St.Clara in Breslau, +1357/58
        F8. Helena, a nun at St.Clara in Gnesen, +after 1299
      - E2. Boleslaw I "Wielki" Duke of Jauer and Schweidnitz (1278-1301), *ca 1270, +9.11.1301; m.1281 Beatrix of Brandenburg (*1270 +1312/16)
        F1. Boleslaw, *1285/90, +30.1.1320
        F2. Bernard "Stateczny" Duke of Schweidnitz (1301-26), *1288/91, +6.5.1326; m.ca 1310 Kunigunde of Poland (+1333)
        G1. Boleslaw "Maly" II Duke of Schweidnitz (1326-68), *V.1308/09, +28.7.1368, bur Krzeszow (Grüssau); m.after 1.6./ca 21.6. 1338 Agnes von Habsburg (+1392)
        G2. Henryk II Duke of Schweidnitz (1326-45), *after 1312, +after 14.8.1343; m.1338 Katharina d'Anjou (+ca 1355)
        H1. Anna, heiress of Schweidnitz and Jauer, *1339, +11.7.1362; m.Buda 27.5.1353 Emperor Charles IV de Luxembourg (*14.5.1316 +29.11.1378)
        
        G3. Konstancija, *1309/13, +1.2.1360-21.11.1363; m.II.1325-III.1326 Duke Premko of Glogau (+11.1.1331)
        G4. Elzbieta, *1314/15, +9.2.1348, bur Franciscans, Opole; m.before 6.5.1326 Duke Boleslaw II of Oppeln (+21.6.1356)
        G5. Beata, *1320/27, +after 9.4.1331
        
        F3. Henryk I Duke of Jauer (1301-46), *1292/96, +6.3.-15.5.1346; m.1319 Agnes of Bohemia (*15.6.1305 +4.1.1337)
        F4. Boleslaw II Duke of Münsterberg, *1300, +Ziebice 11.6.1341; m.before 21.11.1321 Guta (+1342) dau.of Louis of Savoy, Baron de Vaud
        G1. Nikolaus Duke of Münsterberg (1341-58), *1322/27, +23.4.1358; m.before 23.10.1343 Agnes (+1370) dau.of Landgrave Hermann von Leuchtenberg
        H1. Boleslaw III Duke of Münsterberg (1358-1410), *1344/48, +13.6.1410; m.before 26.3.1370 Euphemia (+26.8.1411) dau.of Duke Boleslaw of Kosel
        I1. Nikolaus, *1371/85, +9.11.1405
        I2. Jan Duke of Münsterberg (1410-28), *1380/90, +27.8.1428; m.8.5.1406-19.3.1408 Elisabeth (+27.12.1424) dau.of Emmerich Bebek
        I3. Henryk, +11.3.1420
        I4. Euphemia, *1370/85, +17.11.1447; m.1397 Gf Friedrich III von Öttingen (+23.1.1423)
        I5. Katarina, *1390/1400, +23.4.1422; m.ca 1410 Duke Premko of Troppau (+28.9.1433)
        I6. Agnes, +ca 1443
        I7. Jadwiga, *ca 1370, +young
        I8. Elzbieta, +young
        
        H2. Henryk, *1346/50, +after 8.8.1366/1370
        H3. Ludmila, +Rawa 1368/73, m.1360/66 Duke Ziemowit III of Masovia (+16.6.1381)
        H4. Agnes, Abbess of St.Clara in Strehlen, +1424/34
        H5. Jutta=Guta, Abbess of St.Clara in Breslau before 1380, *ca 1344, +2.9.1413
        H6. Katharina, a nun at St.Clara in Strehlen before 23.2.1358
        
        G2. Margareta, +after VIII.1368
        
        F5. Jutta, *1285/87, +15.9.1320; m.1299 Duke Stephen II of Lower Bavaria (+1310)
        F6. Elzbieta, *and +before 1300 /OR/ +1350/56; m.ca 1315 Wartislaw IV of Rugen (+1.8.1326)
        F7. Anna, Abbess of St.Clara in Strehlen 1327, *1298/99, +6.3.1332-24.6.1334
        F8. Katharina
      - E3. Bernhard "Skoczek", *1253/57, +25.4.1286
      - E4. Konrad, +young
      - E5. Jaroslaw
      - E6. Agnes, *1243/50, +13.3.1265; m.1259/60 Ct Ulrich I of Württemberg (+1265)
      - E7. Jadwiga, *before 1259, +after 1280; m.1265/70 Duke Konrad II of Masovia (+1294)
      - E8. Anna, bur Trzebnica
      - E9. Katharina, +after 1270, bur Trzebnica
      - E10. Elzbieta; m.ca 1268 Ludwig von Hakeborn
    - D2. Mieszko, *1223/27, +1241/42
    - D3. Henryk III "Bialy" (Heinrich III "White") Duke of Breslau (1248-66), *1227/30, +3.12.1266, bur St.Clara, Breslau; 1m: 2/8.6.1252 Judyta of Masovia and Kujavia (+1257/65); 2m: before 3.12.1266 Helena (+1309) dau.of Duke Albrecht I of Saxony
      - E1. Henryk IV "Probus" Duke of Breslau (1270-90), Poland (1288-90), *1248/57, +24.6.1290, bur St.Cross, Breslau; 1m: ca III.1280 Konstancia (+after 1287), a dau.of Duke Wladislaw of Oppeln; 2m: 1287/88 Mechtild (+ca 1298) dau.of Mgve ? of Brandenburg
      - E2. Jadwiga, *1252/56, +after 14.12.1300; 1m: 1271/72 Landgrave Heinrich of Thuringia (+1282); 2m: 1283 Ct Otto von Anhalt (+1304/05)
    - D4. Konrad I Duke of Glogau (1241-48), Bp of Passau 1249, *1228/31, +6.8.1273/74; 1m: winter 1249 Salomea (+1267/74) dau.of King Wladislaw Odonicz of Great Poland; 2m: 1271/74 Sophia (*1258/59, +Weissenfels 24.8.1318) dau.of Mgve Dietrich of Meissen; for his issue see HERE
    - D5. Wladislaw, Chancelor of Bohemia 1256/57, Bp of Passau 1265, Archbp of Salzburg (1265-70), *1237, +24/27.4.1270, bur Salzburg
    - D6. Gertruda, *1218/20, +IV.1244-47; m.ca 1232 Duke Boleslaw I of Masovia (*1208 +1248)
    - D7. Konstanze, *ca 1226, +21.2.1257; m.1239 Duke Kasimir I of Kujavia (+14.11.1267)
    - D8. Elzbieta, +16.1.1265; m.1244 Duke Premislaw I of Posen and Gnesen (+1257)
    - D9. Agnes, Abbess of Trebnitz after 1277, *1220/22, +12.5.after 1278
    - D10. Jadwiga, Abbess of St.Clara in Trebnitz, +3.4.1318
  - C4. a son, *before 25.12.1208, +1214/17
  - C5. Agnes, *ca 1190, +11.5. before 1214
  - C6. Sophia, *1188/90, +22/23.3. before 1214
  - C7. Gertrud, Abbess of Trebnitz, *before 1209, +6.12.1268
- B6. [2m.] Wladislaw, *after 1180, +4.6. before 1199
- B7. [1m.] Olga, *1155/60, +27.6.ca 1175/80
- B8. [2m.] Berta, *ca 1167, +7.5. after 1200 (?)
- B9. [2m.] Adelaida, *after 1165, +29.3. after 1213; m.1177/82 Duke Diepold II of Bohemia (+1190)
A2. Miezko I Duke of Oppeln and Ratibor, *1132/46, +1211; m.1170/78 Ludmilla N (+after 1210); for his issue see HERE
A3. Konrad Duke of Glogau, *1146/57, +1180/90
A4. Albert, +1168/78
A5. Richeza, *1130/40, +1185; 1m: 1152 King Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon (+1157); 2m: 1161 Ct Ramon Berenguer V of Provence (+1166); 3m: after 1166 Ct Albrecht von Everstein

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