Boleslaw II Rogatka
Polish duke
1220 CE to 1278 CE
Bolesław II the Rogatka or Boleslaw II the Horned (Polish: Boleslaw II Rogatka, known also as Boleslaw II the Bald, Polish: Boleslaw II Lysy; ca.
1220/5 – 26/31 December 1278) is a Duke of Kraków briefly in 1241, of Southern Greater Poland during 1241–1247, and Duke of all Silesia–Wrocław from 1241 until 1248, when it is divided between him and his brothers.
He is Duke of Środa Ślaska in Silesia from 1277 onward.
During his reign the second Mongol raid against Poland, led by Nogai Khan occurs.
He is the eldest son of Henry II the Pious, Duke of Wroclaw, by his wife Anna, daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia.
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Henry V, Duke of Legnica, had been present as a youth at the court of King Ottokar II of Bohemia in Prague, where he became a knight.
Henry's father had in 1273 given him the town of Jawor (Jauer) as an independent duchy.
Henry's father Boleslaw II the Bald, acting four years later on behalf of his ally, king Rudolph of Habsburg, r, kidnaps his own nephew Henry IV, the ruler of the Duchy of Wrocław.
This act arouses the anger of the nobility in Lesser Poland and the neighbors of Henry IV, who then organize an expedition to free him and punish Boleslaw.
At the head of the Greater Poland-Głogów-Wroclaw coalition are Dukes Przemysł II of Greater Poland and Henry III of Głogów.
The armies fight at Zabkowice Slaskie near Stolec in one of the most bloody battles of the Polish Middle Ages.
Boleslaw, suspecting in the course of the action that the battle is about to be lost, flees the field.
At this point, however, the young Henry leads a charge, turns the tide of battle, and achieves a great victory, taking both Dukes Przemysl II and Henry III as prisoners.
Thanks to the action of the young Duke of Jauer, his father and family are saved from disastrous defeat.