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Duke Boleslaw III Of Polen

Duke Boleslaw III Of Polen[1]

Male 1086 - 1138  (52 years)


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  • Name Boleslaw III Of Polen 
    Prefix Duke 
    Birth 20 Aug 1086 
    Gender Male 
    Death 28 Oct 1138 
    Person ID I64480  Cecilie Family
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2009 

    Father Duke Wladyslaw I Herman Of Polen,   b. 1043   d. 4 Jun 1102 (Age 59 years) 
    Mother Judith Of Bohemia,   b. 1058   d. 25 Dec 1086 (Age 28 years) 
    Marriage 1080 
    Family ID F27615  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sbislawa Swjatopolkowna Of Kiev   d. Between 1109 and 1112 
    Marriage 1103 
    Children 
     1. Wladislaw II Of Schlesien   d. 1159
    Family ID F27614  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2009 

    Family 2 Salome Von Berg-Schelklingen   d. 1145 
    Children 
     1. Agnieszka Of Polen,   b. 1138   d. 1182 (Age 44 years)
     2. Kazimierz II Of Masowien,   b. 1138   d. 1194 (Age 56 years)
     3. Richiza Swentoslawa Of Polen
     4. Duke Mieszko III Of Polen,   b. 1126-1127   d. 13 Mar 1202 (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F28111  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2009 

  • Notes 
    • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

      Boleslaus III on a painting by Jan MatejkoBoleslaus III the Wrymouth (Boleslaw III Krzywousty), (1086-1138) was duke of Poland from 1102. He was a son of Ladislaus Herman of Poland and Judith of Bohemia.

      He defeated the Pomeranians at the battle of Naklo in 1109, and took control of Pomerania between 1119 and 1123, regaining Polish access to the sea. He also defeated Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1109, in the Battle of Hundsfeld.

      Boleslaus also campaigned in Hungary from 1132 to 1135, but to little effect.

      First he married Zbyslava of Kiev, daughter of Sviatopolk II of Kiev grand duke of Kiev. They had one son:

      Ladislaus (b. 1105), King of Poland
      Second he married Salome von Berg-Schelklingen, with whom he had 14 children (6 sons + 8 daughters) from whom we know of 4 sons and 5 daughters:

      Boleslaus IV the Curly (b. 1125)
      Mieszko III the Old (b. 1126)
      Henry of Sandomierz (b. 1127)
      Casimir the Just (b. 1138)
      Rycheza of Poland (b. 12 April 1116), married to grandduke Volodar
      Dobronega of Poland (b. 1128), married Markis Dietrich of Niederlausitz
      Gertruda of Poland
      Judith of Poland (b. 1132), married Otto I of Brandenburg
      Agnes of Poland (b. 1137), married Mstislav II of Kiev
      Before his death in 1138 he announced the testament (Boleslaw the Wrymouth's testament) dividing his land between four of his sons. The "senioral principle" established in the testament stated, that at every time the oldest member of the dynasty was to have a supreme power over the rest and also control an indivisible "senioral part" - a vast stripe of land running N-S through the middle of Poland, with Krakow as the main city. Senior's prerogatives included also control over Pomerania, which was a fief of the Empire. The principle was quickly broken, which began an almost 200 years period of feudal dissolution in Poland.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1328] Schwennicke, Detlev, ES, (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt Verlag, 1980-), 2:120 (Reliability: 3).