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Duke of Troppau, captain of Kraków and Sandomir, governor of Greater Poland. Nicholas I of Troppau - Czech: Mikuláš I. Opavský ; (* around 1255 , † July 26, 1318 in Brno ) was a son of the Bohemian king Ottokar II. Přemysl and founder of the Duchy of Troppau . He came from the Troppau branch of the Bohemian Přemyslids .
- "Nikolaus"
- Czech Republic
- 1255
- July 25, 1318 (62-63)
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Nicholas I ( Czech: Mikuláš I. Opavský) (c. 1255 – 25 July 1318) was the natural son of Bohemian king Ottokar II Přemysl [1] and his mistress Agnes of Kuenring. In 1269 he became Duke of Opava (at modern day Opava, Czech Republic) and thereby the progenitor of the Silesian cadet branch of the Přemyslid dynasty that lasted until 1521.
The Principality of Opava ( Czech: Opavské knížectví; Polish: Księstwo Opawskie) or Duchy of Troppau ( German: Herzogtum Troppau) was a historic territory split off from the Margraviate of Moravia before 1269 [1] by King Ottokar II of Bohemia to provide for his natural son, Nicholas I. The Opava territory thus had not been part of the ...
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia. Nicholas I (c. 1255 – 25 July 1318) was the natural son of Bohemian king Ottokar II Přemysl and his mistress Agnes of Kuenring. In 1269 he became Duke of Opava (at modern day Opava, Czech Republic) and thereby the progenitor of the Silesian cadet branch of the Přemyslid ...
- Abt 1255
- Male
- 25 Jul 1318
- Nicholas I _____, Duke of Troppau
Nicholas retained the Duchy of Opava after the last Přemyslid ruler of Bohemia, King Wenceslaus III was killed in 1306. The Bohemian Crown however passed to Duke Henry of Carinthia and Nicholas had to accept the pledge of his duchy in favour of the Silesian Piast duke Bolesław III the Generous of Legnica, the husband of King Wenceslaus' III ...
Nicholas I (Czech: Mikuláš I. Opavský) (c. 1255 – 25 July 1318) was the natural son of Bohemian king Ottokar II Přemysl and his mistress Agnes of Kuenring. In 1269 he became Duke of Opava (at modern day Opava, Czech Republic) and thereby the progenitor of the Silesian cadet branch of the Přemyslid dynasty that lasted until 1521.
