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The Beloved Wife: Gentle and Beautiful Anna of Schweidnitz (1339-1362) ~ A Guest Post by Katarzyna Ogrodnik-Fujcik

The Beloved Wife: Gentle and Beautiful Anna of Schweidnitz (1339-1362) ~ A Guest Post by Katarzyna Ogrodnik-Fujcik

Anna of Schweidnitz and Charles IV of Luxembourg, Chapel of St Catherine, Karlštejn, The Czech Republic. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Charles IV of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia and King of the Romans, lost both his young son and his second wife, the boy’s mother, respectively. Twice widowed he decided to marry his son’s fiancee, the young Anna of Schweidnitz and thus secure the Schweidnitz…

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Branches of the Piast dynasty continued to rule in the Duchy of Masovia and in the Duchies of Silesia until the last male Silesian Piast died in 1675. The Piasts intermarried with several noble lines of Europe, and possessed numerous titles, some within the Holy Roman Empire. x

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Archaeologists have discovered a lost castle in the Lower Silesian Wilderness

In the Lower Silesian Wilderness , archaeologists have found remnants of the castle belonging to the Piast dynasty prince Bolko II the Small (died in 1368) - the last independent Piast prince in Silesia.

The ruins are located in the village of Nowoszów (Neuhuas), abandoned after 1945, on the border of the provinces Lubuskie and Dolnośląskie.

"The castle we have discovered has been known only from medieval documents, because the area where the ruins are located is on the military training ground used until the 1990s" - told PAP Dr. Paweł Konczewski from the Department of Anthropology of Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences. His research is the first comprehensive science project on the history of this place. Read more.

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