Duchy of Głogów
One of the Duchies of Silesia ruled by the Silesian Piasts.
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Głogów
City in western Poland.
In the course of the fragmentation under Duke Bolesław II the Bald and his younger brother, the Duchy of Głogów under Duke Konrad I was established in 1251.
Wołów
Town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland.
At that time Wołów belonged to the Duchy of Głogów, after 1312 to the Duchy of Oleśnica.
Krosno Odrzańskie
City on the east bank of Oder River, at the confluence with the Bóbr.
When the Duchy of Wrocław was finally divided in 1251, the town became part of the newly created Duchy of Głogów under Konrad I.
Żagań
Town in western Poland, on the Bóbr river, with 25,731 inhabitants (2019).
In 1251, it became part of the newly created Duchy of Głogów under Henry's grandson Konrad I.
John I Albert
John I Albert (Jan I Olbracht; 27 December 1459 – 17 June 1501) was King of Poland (1492–1501) and Duke of Głogów (1491–1498).
Ścinawa
Town and municipality on the Oder river in the Lower Silesian region of Poland.
After the partition of the Duchy of Głogów by Konrad's sons in 1273, Ścinawa became the capital of a duchy in its own right under the rule of Konrad II the Hunchback.
Silesian Piasts
The Silesian Piasts were the elder of four lines of the Polish Piast dynasty beginning with Władysław II the Exile (1105–1159), eldest son of Duke Bolesław III of Poland.
Bolesław established the duchy of Legnica, Konrad I Glogow, Henry III kept Wroclaw together with Ladislaus, who would become archbishop of Salzburg.
Sigismund I the Old
King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548.
Finally, his eldest brother Vladislaus II, King of Bohemia and Hungary, granted him the duchies of Głogów (1499) and Opava (1501), and in 1504 Sigismund became governor of Silesia and Lower Lusatia.
Duchies of Silesia
The Duchies of Silesia were the more than twenty divisions of the region of Silesia formed between the 12th and 14th centuries by the breakup of the Duchy of Silesia, then part of the Kingdom of Poland.
Konrad Spindleshanks (Konrad Laskonogi), the youngest, in 1177 also claimed his rights and received the Duchy of Głogów from his brother Bolesław, who after Konrad's death about 1180/90 again inherited it.
Duchy of Legnica
One of the Duchies of Silesia.
Furthermore, he came into conflict with his younger brother Konrad, who, originally predestined for an ecclesiastical career as Bishop of Passau, also demanded his distributive share and had to be paid off by Bolesław with the newly created Duchy of Głogów in 1251.