Trzebnica

Trzebnica is known for its Cistercian convent, founded in 1202 by Duke Henry the Bearded and his wife Hedwig of Andechs. Their daughter Gertrude became abbess, and both Henry and Hedwig were buried in the convent church. Hedwig was canonised in 1267, and her shrine drew pilgrims to the town from across the region. Trzebnica received town privileges in 1250 and came under the dukes of Oleśnica in 1323. Hussite forces plundered it in 1430; fifty years later Duke Konrad X granted the town to the Cistercian abbey.