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Constance (d. 1351), was a Polish princess member of the House of Piast and sovereign Duchess of Wodzisław Śląski since 1324 until her death.
Her name appears twice in contemporary sources: firstly, in a letter of Pope John XXII dated 22 September 1321, where she is named "Duchess of Racibórz",[1] and secondly in the Chronicle of Racibórz, who give her the title of "Duchess of Wodzisław" (księżną wodzisławską) and mentions her death in 1351.[2] None of this sources showed Constance's parentage. Historians and sources are agreed that she was a member of the Piast dynasty; however, the difficult of establishing who was her father, caused that two theories emerged about her origins.
The first hypothesis[3] states that Constance was the daughter of Duke Władysław of Opole. Married with Henry IV Probus, Duke of Wrocław, who repudiated her after several years of union. She moved to Racibórz at the court of her brothers Mieszko I and Przemysław, who given to her the district of Wodzisław as her own Duchy, where she remained until her death. Historians who dispute this theory alleged that Władysław of Opole's daughter, whose name is unknown, died shortly after her marriage with Henry IV[4] or between her repudiation and Henry IV's subsequent marriage.[5]
References
- ^ "Constantie Ducisse Ratiboriensi". Ref: Vetera monumenta Poloniae et Lithuaniae, ed. by A. Theiner, Rome 1860, vol. I, p. 170, No 259.
- ^ "Anno MCCCLI feria quinta obiit Constantina preclarissima princeps Ladislawiensis". Ref: Ratiborer Chronik [in:] "Zeitschrift des Vereins für Geschichte und Alterthum Schlesiens", ed. by A. Weltzel, vol. IV, 1862, p. 115.
- ^ This theory is supported by: J. Tęgowski, Konstancja, "Poczet żon królewskich", [in:] "Magazyn Razem", 1987, No 1, pp. 31–32; J. Sperka, Konstancja, [in:] Książęta i księżne Górnego Śląska, red. by A. Barciak, Katowice 1995, pp. 78–79; S.A. Sroka, Konstancja, [in:] Piastowie. Leksykon biograficzny, red. by K. Ożóg and S. Szczur, Kraków 1999, pp. 728–729. Kazimierz Jasiński treated this as a conjecture; K. Jasiński, Rodowód Piastów śląskich, Second Edition, Kraków 2007, part III, pp. 542–543, note 3.
- ^ T. Jurek, Plany koronacyjne Henryka Probusa, [in:] Śląsk w czasach Henryka IV Prawego (Wratislavia antiqua 8), ed. by K. Wachowski, Wrocław 2005, pp. 27–29.
- ^ R. Grodecki, Dzieje polityczne Śląska do r. 1290, [in:] Historia Śląska od najdawniejszych czasów do roku 1400, ed. by S. Kutrzeba, vol. I, Kraków 1933, pp. 293–294; K. Jasiński, Rodowód Piastów śląskich, Second Edition, Kraków 2007, part III, pp. 524–526.