Person

Henry I the Bearded

High Duke of Poland

b. 1165 CE – d. 1238 CE World The Great Crossroads

Henry I the Bearded (ca.

1165/70 – 19 March 1238), of the Silesian line of the Piast dynasty, is Duke of Silesia at Wrocław from 1201 and Duke of Kraków and thus High Duke of all Poland — internally divided — from 1232 until his death.