Duchy of Jawor
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Księstwo Jaworskie (pl) Herzogtum Jauer (de) |
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| Silesian duchy | ||||||||||
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 Silesia in 1274: Jawor Duchy in red
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| Capital | Jawor | |||||||||
| Government | Principality | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Partitioned from Legnica | 1274 | ||||||||
| • | Acquired Świdnica and Ziębice |
1291 | ||||||||
| • | Reunited with Świdnica | 1346 | ||||||||
| • | Annexed by Bohemia | 1392 | ||||||||
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Duchy of Jawor (Polish: Księstwo Jaworskie) was one of the Duchies of Silesia established in 1274 as a subdivision of the Duchy of Legnica. It was ruled by the Silesian Piasts, with its capital at Jawor in Lower Silesia.
The original Duchy stretched from Jawor on the Nysa Szalona River westwards along the northern slopes of the Western Sudetes to the Jizera Mountains and the Kwisa River, which formed the Silesian border with the former Milceni lands of Upper Lusatia. In the north it bordered the remaining Duchy of Legnica and in the east the Duchy of Silesia–Wrocław.
It included the towns of Bolków, Kamienna Góra, Lubawka, Lwówek, Świerzawa and (from 1277) Strzegom.
The Silesian Duchy of Legnica since 1248 had been under the rule of Duke Bolesław II Rogatka. When Bolesław's eldest son Henry V the Fat succeeded his father as Duke of Legnica in 1278, he gave the Jawor subdivision to his younger brothers Bolko I the Strict and Bernard the Lightsome. In 1281 Bernard was made a Duke of Lwówek in the western part of the Jawor lands.
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