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 | | In the 1138 will of Boles³aw Krzywousty (Boleslaus III the Wrymouth), Duke of Poland 1107-1138, Poland was divided into five provinces - Silesia, Mazovia with Cuiavia, Greater Poland, the part of Pomerania around the City of Gdañsk, the Sandomierz Region, and Lesser Poland, the 'senior palatinate', comprising the areas around Krakow, £êczyca, and Sieradz. |
 | | To prevent his four sons from quarrelling, Boleslaw granted one province to each of them, and the fifth one, the senior palatinate, was to be given to the eldest brother on the grounds of primogeniture. |
 | | When Waclaw II died suddenly in 1305 while his son Waclaw III was murdered in 1306, Lokietek exploited this and conquered the duchies of Sandomierz, Sieradz-Leczyca and Brzesc-Cuiavia. |
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