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 Boleslaus I of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bolesław I Chrobry ('Boleslaus the Brave') (966/967 - 1025) of the Piast family, son of Mieszko I and of his first wife, the Czech princess Dobrawa, ruled as duke of Poland from 992 to 1025 and reigned as King of Poland in 1025.
In 984 Boleslaus married Rikdaga, the daughter of Riddag (Rikdag, Ricdag), the margrave of Meissen.
Boleslaus was the first Polish King, since during his rule Poland became a Kingdom, despite the fact that some of the Polish rulers before 1295 never received a crown.
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 Encyclopedia: Boleslaus III of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Boleslaus III the Wrymouth (Polish: Bolesław III Krzywousty), (1086-1138) was duke of Poland from 1102.
Bolesław IV Kędzierzawy Boleslaus IV the Curly (Polish: Bolesław Kędzierzawy) - high-duke of Poland (1146-1173) Born: 1120 Poland Died: 1173 Poland Parents: Boleslaus III the Wrymouth, duke of Poland, and Salome von Berg-Schelklingen, daughter of Henry duke of Berg Maried to: Russian pricess Wierzchoslawa...
Władysław III Laskonogi Wladislaus III Spindleshanks (Polish: Władysław III Laskonogi) was the duke of the Greater Poland province and the high duke of the whole Poland in 1202-1206 and 1227-1228.
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 Wenceslaus III of Bohemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wenceslaus III Premyslid (Czech and Slovak Václav, Hungarian Vencel), (October 6, 1289 – August 4, 1306) was the king of Hungary (1301 - 1305) and king of Bohemia (1305 - 1306).
Wenceslaus III was the son of Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia and Poland, and Judith von Habsburg, the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf I.
Wenceslaus III, however, wanted to claim his hereditary right to the Polish throne, but was murdered under mysterious circumstances in Olomouc, Moravia on August 4, 1306 while on a campaign to Poland.
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 Boleslaus III of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boleslaus III the Wrymouth (Polish: Bolesław III Krzywousty; 1085–1138) was duke of Poland from 1102.
Boleslaus III was thus the brother-in-law of emperor Henry IV.
The "senioral principle" established in the testament stated that at all times the oldest member of the dynasty was to have supreme power over the rest and also control an indivisible "senioral part": a vast strip of land running N-S through the middle of Poland, with Kraków as the main city.
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 John III Sobieski, King of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John (Jan) III Sobieski (August 17, 1629 - June 17, 1696) was the king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 to 1696.
In a strange twist of events a statue of John III Sobieski was brought to the city of Gdansk by people from his native land (from Lwów), when they were resettled there.
King John III Sobieski, nicknamed by the Turks the "Lion of Lechistan", and the last great king of Poland, died in Wilanów, Poland on June 17, 1696.
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 Mieszko I of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mieszko I had pledged allegiance to emperor Otto I the Great, to emperor Otto II and again to emperor Otto III, however there is much dispute from the Polish side over this fact - mainly whether he was vassal from whole Poland, or from part Poland (the disputed fragment is "usque Varta fluvium").
Shortly before his death he placed his state under the suzerainty of the Pope in a document usually called the Dagome Iudex.This Dagome Iudex indexes the lands of the Mieszko, referred as "Dagome" in document, and his wife, former nun Oda and her sons by him.
Sygryda was the wife (as queen Sigrid the Haughty) of Eric the Victorious, king of Sweden and then (as queen Gunhilda) of king Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, and mother of king Canute of Denmark and England.
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 Boleslaus III of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was a son of Ladislaus Herman of Poland and, daughter of emperor Henry III.
He defeated the Pomeranians at the in 1109, and took control of Pomerania between 1119 and 1123, once again by conquest regaining temporary Polish access to the Baltic Sea.
However in 1135 he became a vassal of Henry's son Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor, from whom he received the lien of Pomerania, Poland and Ruegen.
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 Jadwiga of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She was also known for her piety and her admiration for Saints Mary, Martha, and Bridget of Sweden, as well as her patron saint, Hedwig of Andechs.
Until rather recently, Poland had been ruled by her independent king Casimir III of Poland, of the ancient Piast dynasty.
Emperor Sigismund himself was a heir of Casimir III, as eldest son of his mother Elisabeth of Pomerania, who was since 1377 the only surviving child of Elisabeth of Poland, herself the younger but only progenited daughter of Casimir III from his first marriage with Gediminaitis.
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 Casimir IV of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Casimir IV the Jagiellonian (Polish: Kazimierz Jagiellończyk, Lithuanian Kazimieras Jogailaitis) (1427 - 1492), of the House of Jagiello was grand duke of Lithuania from 1440 and king of Poland from 1447 until his death.
The son of king Wladislaus II Jagiełło and younger brother to Wladislaus III, Casimir succeeded the latter after a three-year interregnum.
His son named Casimir was to have been married to the daughter of emperor Frederick III but he instead chose a religious life, eventually becoming canonized as St.
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 Boleslaus III of Poland - InformationBlast
Boleslaus III the Wrymouth (Bolesław III Krzywousty), (1086-1138) was king of Poland from 1102.
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.
The"senioral principle" established in the testament stated, that at every time the oldest memeber 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.
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 Polish History - Part 1
Casimir's son, Boleslaus II, the Bold (1054-1079,) reconstituted the Church Metropolis and, as a result of numerous battle victories, reached for the crown in 1076.
Boleslaus II's brother and successor, Ladislaus Herman, settled for the title of prince and acknowledged a loose dependence on the Empire.
His son, Boleslaus III, the Wrymouth (1102-1138,) also was a prince although he waged numerous successful wars, repelling a German invasion in 1109.
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 Mieszko III of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mieszko III the Old was a duke of Greater Poland (1138-1202) and also a high-duke of all Poland (1173-1202, with interruptions), belonging to the Piast dynasty.
Parents: Boleslaus III the Wrymounth, duke of Poland, and Salome of Berg (Mieszko was the third son of Boleslaus, and second son of the ducal couple).
According to the statute of the Polish duke Boleslaus III the Wrymouth Poland was divided into the 4-5 hereditary provinces distributed among his sons, and a royal province of Cracow for the eldest to be the high-duke of all Poland.
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 Boleslaus III of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
'']] Boleslaus III the Wrymouth (Bolesław III Krzywousty), (1086 - 1138) was king of Poland from 1102.
He defeated the Pomerania ns at the battle of Naklo in 1109, and took control of Pomerania between 1119 and 1123, regaining Polish access to the sea.
Agnes of Poland Before his death in 1138 he announced the testament (Boleslaw the Wrymouth's testament) dividing his land between four of his sons.
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 Courtly Lives - St. Jadwiga of Anjou, Queen of Poland
Kazimierz III, Duke of Inowroclaw and Gniewkow, was born in 1278/80, and died in 1343/53.
Boleslaw III Wrymouth (1085-1138), Duke of Poland from 1102-1138.
Wladyslaw married (2)Judith-Maria of Austria.(parents of Boleslaw III Wrymouth, Duke of Poland)
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 Boleslaus III of Poland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Boleslaus III the Wrymouth (Bolesław III Krzywousty), (1086-1138) was duke of (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II) Poland from 1102.
Boleslaus also campaigned in (A republic in central Europe) Hungary from 1132 to 1135, but to little effect.
First he married Zbyslava of Kiev, daughter of (Click link for more info and facts about Sviatopolk II of Kiev) Sviatopolk II of Kiev grand duke of (Capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center) Kiev.
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 List of Polish rulers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mieszko III the Old (Mieszko Stary) and Leszek Biały (1194–1202) (Leszek Biały)
Boleslaus II the Bald (1241) Boleslaw II Łysy Rogatka
He abandoned the throne and fled to France where he was crowned as Henry III of France
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 Map of Poland - Interactive Travel Destinations in Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Boleslaus Wrymouth did homage to German emperor and divided the kingdom among his four sons.
The capital of Polish kingdom used to be in Gniezno or in the nearby Poznan, but already in the 11th century grew the importance of Krakow, and it was after Boleslaus’ III death when Krakow became an uncontested centre of the state.
Boleslaus’ mother Dabrawa, a daughter of the Czech prince, brought Christianity to Poland.
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 Stephen Bathory, King of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Stefan was elected to become King of Poland, after Henry III of Valois fled Poland to become King of France.
Emperor Mathias's brother Maximilian III tried to claim title of King of Poland, but was defeated at Byczyna and Sigismund III Vasa followed Stefan Báthory's reign.
This biography of a European noble is a stub.
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 31st Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ramón Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona "The Great" was born 11 Nov 1080 in Barcelona, Spain and married 1112.
Gaucherwalter de Salins III was born 1110 in Salins, France.
Eustace IV did homage for Normandy in 1137 to Louis VII, king of France, whose sister Constance he later married, and he was several times used by the king as an opponent to the claims on the Norman duchy made by the counts of Anjou.
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 Vol I File 15: The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James
Boleslav III., another disastrous ruler, who succeeded his elder brother as the King of Bohemia, and eventually lost all Bohemia's foreign possessions and his own throne, being replaced by a Polish prince, Vladivoj.
Boleslaus IV., the Curly, King of Poland, 1146-1173, born in 1120 and died in 1173.
Mieszko III., the Old, King of Poland, 1173-1177, and 1194-1202, born in 1126, died in 1202.
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 Wenceslaus_II_of_Bohemia
He was planning to invade Austria when he died in 1305.
He was succeeded by his son, Wenceslaus III, the last of the Premyslid kings.
(She married Rudolf III of Austria after Wenceslaus' death).
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 Augustus II of Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in Dresden in Saxony, Frederick Augustus was the son of John George III and.
After the Sejm Niemy, Augustus gave up his ambitions and settled, finally, for attempts at strengthening the Commonwealth, however, faced with both internal and foreign opposition, he achieved little.
Although he was unsuccessful in his attempt to make the Polish kingdom hereditary, his eldest son, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, followed him as King of Poland as Augustus III, although he had to be installed by a Russian army in the War of the Polish Succession.
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 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Norman Morse HILL
The hard-pressed king of the English, Harold, defeated the Norse invasion at Stamford Bridge; both Harold III and Tostig fell in the battle.
RAMIRO I King of Aragon, born 1020 in Aragon, Spain; died 1064 in Killed in battle in Graus, Aragon, Spain.
BOLESLAUS III 'The Wrymouth' King of Poland, born 20 August 1085 in Krakow, Krakow, Poland; died 28 October 1138 in Krakow, Krakow, Poland; married (1) ZBYSLAVA of Kiev 1103 in Krakow, Krakow, Poland; married (2) Salome of Berg-Schelklingen Abt.
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   Poland - In Your Pocket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Boleslaus the Wrymouth's testament in 1138 divides the Polish state into separate and sovereign principalities, of which Kraków is granted the status of suzerain province and becomes a bone of contention amongst Polish princes.
In 1257 duke Boleslaus the Chaste grants Krakow her charter and outlines the rights and privileges of the city, its residents, and its merchants.
From 1333-70 Kazimierz III the Great (1310-70) reigns as one of Poland's most noted rulers, and Wawel Castle is re-built in the gothic style.
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 Articles - Henry III of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henri was born Edouard-Alexandre at the Royal Château of Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, the fourth son of King Henri II and Catherine de Medici.
On August 1, 1589, Henry III, lodged with his army in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, prepared to attack Paris when a young fanatical Dominican friar named Jacques Clément, carrying false papers, was granted access to deliver important documents to the King.
Henry III was interred in the Saint Denis Basilica.
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 Ancestors and Family of Boleslaw III Wrymouth of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Another name for Boleslaw was Boleslaus III Krzywousty of Poland.
Son of Wladyslaw I Herman, ruler of Poland, and Judith of Bohemia, Boleslaw III and his illegitimate elder half brother, Zbigniew, each ruled a Polish province during their father's lifetime.
Boleslaw III succeeded to his father's princely title (no Polish ruler assumed the title of king from 1082 to 1296) in 1102 and spent the next several years fighting Zbigniew for control of the country.
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 Boleslaus III of Poland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Boleslaus III of Poland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 Polish History - Part 2
The state was divided into dukedoms and principalities, each of which was ruled by a branch of the Piast dynasty.
The beginning of the provincial split was provided by the testament of Boleslaus III, the Wrymouth, in 1138.
In 1264, they were granted special freedoms by the Krakow Prince, Boleslaus the Pious.
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