Legnica
Legnica was a Silesian Piast duchy centered on Legnica in Lower Silesia. Its duke in 1337, Bolesław III, had paid homage to King John of Bohemia in 1329, making the duchy a Bohemian fief.
The local Piast line died out in 1419 and Legnica passed to the Brzeg branch; Bohemia briefly annexed it in 1436. The Reformation reached the duchy in 1522. When the last Piast duke, George William, died in 1675, the Habsburgs took direct control. Prussia seized it in the First Silesian War, confirmed by treaty in 1742.
Characters
- Bolesław III the Generous
- Henry V the Fat
- Katarina Šubić
- Louis I of Brzeg
- Margaret of Bohemia
- Wenceslaus I of Legnica