Anne of Bohemia Duchess of Silesia

• Preferred Name: Anne of Bohemia Duchess of Silesia^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: GJ15-PBW
  
• Death: 23 JUN 1265 in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland at LATI: N1.1102 LONG: E7.0318
  
• Birth: 1204 in Of, Praha, Praha, Czechoslovakia at LATI: N0.0868 LONG: E4.4207
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Anne of Bohemia (Czech: Anna Lehnická, Polish: Anna Przemyslidka; c. 1203/1204 - 26 June 1265), a member of the Premyslid dynasty, was Duchess of Silesia and High Duchess of Poland from 1238 to 1241, by her marriage to the Piast ruler Henry II the Pious. She was celebrated by the community of Franciscan nuns at St Clara of Prague Abbey in Wroclaw as their founder and patron.
  
  Life
  Anna was probably born in Prague, Bohemia, the daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia and his second wife, Constance of Hungary. Her maternal grandparents were Béla III of Hungary and his first wife, Agnes of Antioch. Her paternal grandparents were King Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Judith of Thuringia. She was a sister of the Franciscan nun Agnes of Bohemia (1211 - 1282).
  
  Around the age of twelve (in 1216) she was married to the Piast prince Henry II the Pious, member of the Silesian branch of the Piast dynasty, the son and heir of Duke Henry the Bearded. During internal political struggles, the Silesian Piasts gained large parts of the Polish territories upon the assassination of High Duke Leszek the White in 1227. Henry the Bearded inherited the Duchy of Greater Poland in 1231, and in the following year attained the Seniorate Province and the Polish throne at Kraków. After his death on 19 March 1238 he was succeeded by his son Henry II, co-ruler in the Silesian lands since 1226.
  
  Anne was widowed only three years later, on 9 April 1241, when her husband was killed fighting against the Mongols at the Battle of Legnica. The following years were mainly marked by her occupation as a regent for her son Boleslaw II and his brothers. Nevertheless, the Silesian Piasts were not able to maintain their supremacy in the Polish lands, when the Kraków throne passed to Duke Konrad I of Masovia.
  
  On 8 May 1242, Anne and her son founded the Benedictine abbey of Krzeszów (Grüssau). The Dowager Duchess also was a generous benefactor of the Franciscan nuns in Wroclaw, in consultation with her sister Agnes of Bohemia. In 1256 Pope Alexander IV wrote to the bishops of Wroclaw and Lebus, explaining that Anne had proposed the construction of a monastery that would house a community of Franciscan nuns, fulfilling her desire, and her dead husband's desire, to build such an institution. In 1257, the construction of the monastery began. Anne donated many goods to the monastery, but made sure that her donations did not violate the vow of voluntary poverty that the nuns had taken; in 1263, a papal bull issued by Pope Urban IV to the nuns at Wroclaw states that Anne wanted the nuns to use the property that she had given them only in times of need. The Notæ Monialium Sanctæ Claræ Wratislaviensium names her as the founder of the monastery of St Clare at Wroclaw. Her vita, written in the first half of the fourteenth century, links her closely with her mother-in-law Hedwig of Andechs, who is portrayed as the main influence on Anne's religious life.
  
  According to a text known as the Notæ Monialium Sanctæ Claræ Wratislaviensium, a chronicle written by the Franciscan nuns at Wroclaw, Anne died in 1265 and was buried in the nuns' choir at the Chapel of St Hedwig, a chapel in St Clara of Prague Abbey in Wroclaw.
  
  According to historian Gábor Klaniczay, she was venerated as a saint in Poland, but would never be canonised.
  
  Children
  Anna and Henry had ten children:
  1.) Gertrude (c. 1218/20 - 23/30 April 1247), married by 1232 to Boleslaw I of Masovia.
  
  2.) Constance (c. 1221 - c. 21 February 1257), married by 1239 to Casimir I of Kuyavia.
  
  3.) Boleslaw II the Bald (c. 1220/25 - 25/31 December 1278).
  
  4.) Mieszko (c. 1223/27 - 1242).
  
  5.) Henry III the White (1227/30 - 3 December 1266).
  
  6.) Konrad of Glogów (1228/31 - 6 August c. 1274).
  
  7.) Elizabeth (c. 1232 - 16 January 1265), married in 1244 to Przemysl I of Greater Poland.
  
  8.) Agnes of Trebnitz (c. 1236 - 14 May aft. 1277), left by her mother with the Franciscans at St. Clare in Wroclaw.
  
  9.) Wladyslaw (1237 - 27 April 1270), Bohemian chancellor, Prince-bishop of Bamberg and Passau, Prince-archbishop of Salzburg.
  
  10.) Hedwig (c. 1238/41 - 3 April 1318), Abbess of St Clara in Wroclaw.
  
  After lengthy dynastical struggles, Anne's younger sons claimed their rights to the Lower Silesian lands, including Henry III, who after a 1248 partition of the Silesian lands ruled as Duke of Silesia at Wroclaw, while Boleslaw II went on ti rule as Duke of Legnica. From 1251, Konrad I ruled as first Silesian Duke of Glogów. Anne's son Wladyslaw (Ladislaus; 1237 - 1270) was appointed chancellor by King Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1256, he was elected Prince-bishop of Bamberg (1257) and Passau, and became Prince-archbishop of Salzburg in 1265. Of her daughters, Gertrude (1219 - 1246) became the first wife of Boleslav I, duke of Masovia, whilst Hedwig (c. 1240-1318) served as abbess of the monastery of St Clare at Wroclaw.
  
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• m. ABT 1216 in Praha, Praha, Czechoslavakia

1. Boleslaus Rogata von Liegnitz II, b. 1224 in Wroclaw, Doinosiaskie, Poland     d. 26 DEC 1278 in Legnica, Doinosiaskie, Poland
2. Constance Duchess Of Cujavia, b. ABT 1222 in WROCLAW, WROCLAW, POLAND     d. 21 FEB 1257
3. Konrad I of Glogów Duke of Glogów, b. 1228 in Silesia, Poland     d. 6 AUG 1274 in Głogów, Głogów, Niederschlesien, Polen
4. Elizabeth of Wroclaw, b. 1215 in Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland     d. 16 JAN 1265 in Modrze, Poznan, Duchy of Greater Poland

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   Note: Anne of Bohemia1 Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 F, #18869, b. circa 1202, d. 26 June 1265 Father Premislaus II Ottocarus, King of Bohemia b. 1155, d. 15 Dec 1230 Mother Constantia of Hungary b. 1180, d. 3 Dec 1240 Anne of Bohemia was born circa 1202 at of Prague, Czechoslovakia.2 She married Henry II, Duke of Breslau, Lord of Silesia, son of Henry Brabatus, Duke of Breslau & Lord of Silesia and St. Hedwig of Meran, Duchess of Poland and Silesia, circa 1216.2 Anne of Bohemia died on 26 June 1265 at Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.2 Family Henry II, Duke of Breslau, Lord of Silesia b. c 1191, d. 9 Apr 1241 Children Gertrud of Silesia3 b. bt 1218 - 1220, d. bt 23 Apr 1244 - Apr 1247 Konstanze of Silesia+4 b. bt 1221 - 1227, d. b 23 Feb 1257 Mieszko of Silesia3 b. bt 1223 - 1227, d. bt 1241 - 1242 Elisabeth of Silesia+ b. bt 1224 - 1232, d. 16 Jan 1265 Boleslaus II, Duke of Liegnitz+ b. c 1225, d. bet 26-31 Dec 1289 Conrad II, Duke of Glogau+ b. c 1226, d. 6 Aug 1273 Heinrich III, Duke of Breslau+ b. bt 1227 - 1230, d. 3 Dec 1266 Agnes of Silesia, Abbess of Trebnitz3 b. bt 1230 - 1236, d. a 14 May 1277 Vladislav of Silesia, Bishop of Bamberg, Elector of Passau & Salzburg3 b. c 1237, d. 27 Apr 1270 Hedwig of Silesia, Abbess of St. Klara in Trebnitz3 b. bt 1238 - 1241, d. 3 Apr 1318