George I of Münsterberg (also: ''George I of Poděbrady''; or ; or ''Jiří z Poděbrad''; 2 October 1470,

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– 10 November 1502,

Oleśnica Oleśnica (; ) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, within the Wrocław metropolitan area. It is the administrative seat of Oleśnica County and also of the rural district of Gmina Oleśnica, although it is not part ...

) was a member of the

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and a Duke of the Silesian Duchies of Münsterberg and Oels and Count of Glatz.

Life

George was a grandson of the King

George of Poděbrady George of Kunštát and Poděbrady (23 April 1420 – 22 March 1471), also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad (; ), was the sixteenth King of Bohemia, who ruled in 1458–1471. He was a leader of the Hussites, but moderate and tolerant toward the ...

of Bohemia. His parents were Duke Henry the Elder of Munsterberg-Oels and

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, daughter of the Elector Albert III Achilles of Brandenburg. George's brother Albert married in 1487 to a daughter of the Duke John II "the Mad" of Żagań. In 1488, George himself and his brother

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also married with daughters of John II. George's wife was Hedwig (1476–1524). After their father's death in 1498, the three brothers Albert, George and Charles ruled jointly at first, but each lived on his own castle: Albert in

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, George in

() and Charles in

Ziębice Ziębice () is a town in Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies on the Oława River, approximately east of Ząbkowice Śląskie and south of the regional capital Wrocław. It is the seat of t ...

() and from 1530 in his newly built castle in

Ząbkowice Śląskie Ząbkowice Śląskie ( ; ) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of Ząbkowice Śląskie County and of a local municipality called Gmina Ząbkowice Śląskie. The town lies approximately south of the ...

(). Although the three brothers had sold the County of Glatz () in 1501 to their future brother-in-law

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, they retained the title of Counts of Glatz for themselves and their descendants until the Münsterberg line of the Poděbrady branch of the Kunštát family died out in the male line in 1647. George was a patron of the spa facilities of

Lądek-Zdrój Lądek-Zdrój (; ), known in English as Landek, is a spa town situated in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, southwestern Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Lądek-Zdrój, close to the Czech borde ...

(). Soon after his father's death, he started the construction of the local "George Bath" with a residential house and the St. George's Chapel. In 1501 he issued the first bath regulations for Landeck.

References

* (added entry in the article ''Johann II., Herzog in Schlesien und Herr zu Sagan'') * (added entry in the article ''Johann II., Herzog in Schlesien und Herr zu Sagan'') * Arno Herzig, Małgorzata Ruchniewicz: ''Geschichte des Glatzer Landes''. Hamburg-Wrocław 2006, , p. 54–59

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:George 01 Of Ziebice 15th-century nobility from Bohemia Dukes of Münsterberg Podiebrad family 1470 births 1502 deaths