Sulechów

Sulechów is a town in the middle Oder country, once part of the Silesian Duchy of Głogów. Defensive walls enclosed it by the early fourteenth century. Its first surviving mention dates from 1319, when Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg occupied it during a campaign; after his death that same year it returned to the Piast dukes. The death of Duke Henry XI in 1476 opened a fierce inheritance dispute between his widow's Brandenburg family and his cousin Jan II of Żagań. After years of fighting, Sulechów passed to Brandenburg as a Bohemian fief.