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Agnes Of Wrocław
Agnes of Wrocław (born likely between 1230 and 1236, died 14 May after 1277) was a Silesian princess from the Piast dynasty, a Cistercian nun, and the abbess of the Trzebnica Abbey from 1269/1272 to 1278. She was the daughter of the Silesian, Kraków, and Greater Poland Duke Henry II the Pious and Anne, daughter of the King of Bohemia, Ottokar I. Biography The exact birthdate of Agnes is uncertain, but it is most likely between 1230 and 1236. Births before 1230 are considered unlikely, as Agnes would have been mentioned in the ''Life of Saint Hedwig'' (written in 1300), which describes her grandmother Hedwig of Silesia, who lived in the Trzebnica Abbey until her death in 1243. She could not have been born after 1236 either, as she became a nun by 1248 at the latest, which implies she would have reached the canonical age of 12 by that year according to the law at the time. Agnes was the daughter of Henry II the Pious, Duke of Silesia, Kraków, and Greater Poland, and Anne. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
