Świdnica

Świdnica was a Silesian Piast duchy centred on the walled trading town of Świdnica. In 1337 Bolko II the Small ruled it independently of Bohemia.

Bolko enlarged his lands with Jawor, Lusatia and parts of Brzeg and Głogów. When he died childless in 1368, his widow Agnes retained the duchy until 1392, when Wenceslaus IV incorporated it into the Bohemian Crown. Świdnica resisted a Hussite siege in 1429, passed to the Habsburgs in 1526 and to Prussia in 1742.