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Dukes of Silesia. Dissolution. 1675 (male line) Cadet branches. Silesian Piasts of Opole. Silesian Piasts of Glogów. 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.
1675 (male) 1707 (female) Branches. Silesian Piasts, the agnatically senior and later last surviving branch of the dynasty. Masovian Piasts (dissolved in 1526) House of Griffins [1] [2] (uncertain) The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. [3]
NameLifespanReign StartReign EndWładysław II the Exile Polish: Władysław ...1105 – 30 May 115911381146Bolesław IV the Curly Polish: Bolesław ...ca. 1125 – 5 January 117311461173Mieszko III the Old Polish: Mieszko III ...ca. 1127 – 13 March 120211731177Casimir II the Just Polish: Kazimierz II ...ca. 1138 – 5 May 119411771190- 10th century
Piast Dynasty, first ruling family of Poland. According to a 12th-century legend, when Prince Popiel of Gnesen (now Gniezno) died, in the second half of the 9th century, he was succeeded by Siemowit, the son of the prince’s plowman, Piast, thus founding a dynasty that ruled the Polish lands until.
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May 3, 2024 · As the Silesian Piasts were prolific, the three existing principalities were subdivided again and again, until by the end of the 15th century there were no less than 16 Silesian principalities. The petty Silesian princes often sought the help of the powerful kings of Bohemia against their brothers and cousins, thus enabling those monarchs to ...
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Silesians. Ślōnzŏki, Ślůnzoki ( Silesian) Polish Ślązacy ( Polish), Old. Polish Ślężnie. colloquial Polish Ślązaki, Ślązoki. Slezané ( Czech) Flag of Upper Silesia. Total population. Several million (of which about 0.8 million officially declared Silesian nationality in national censuses in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia ).
- No data, 31,301 declared Silesian nationality, of which 12,451 declared it as their only nationality
- 585,700 officially declared Silesian nationality. (Polish-Silesian nationality included)
- c. 2.4–3.6 million
- no data; 22 declared Silesian nationality
Summarize this article for a 10 year old. SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. 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.
It has an extensive collection including medieval art (sculptures and altar paintings); Silesian and foreign paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; prints with views of Brzeg, its castle and other Silesian cities; and weapons from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, including an extremely rare fourteenth-century straight ...