Prudnik

Prudnik was a small Silesian lordship on the Bohemian border. In 1336 King John of Bohemia allowed Bolesław the Elder, Piast duke of Niemodlin and a Bohemian vassal, to buy it.

In the fifteenth century Prudnik was joined with neighbouring Głogówek in a duchy that suffered heavily during the Hussite invasion of 1428. The duchy survived until 1562; Prudnik later shared the fate of Austrian Silesia and passed to Prussia in 1742.