Re: Russian ancestors of early modern English nobility

In a message dated 8/5/06 10:39:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Jwc1870@aol.com

<< Wladyslaw II, breifly King of Poland d 1159 married Agnes, daughter
of Leopold III, Duke of Austria by Agnes of Germany, daughter of Emperor
Henry
IV. >>

That's funny, "Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe", Jiri Louda and
Michael Maclagan. .Clarkson N Potter, New York 1981 has this person on at least
two tables 77 and 132

On 77 they are only noting him as the father of someone else they are
interested in, but there they call him "Duke of Poland d 1159". On Table 132, where
they give his parents Boleslaw III, Duke of Poland in 1102 d 1138 and Ebyslawa
d 1108 dau of Svatolpolk GrandDuke of Kiev (married 1103) they do NOT call
him Duke of Poland, but rather Duke of Cracow and Silesia 1138-46.

It's interesting that his Dukedom ends in 1146 but he lives until 1159. His
half-brother Mieszko III is called Duke of Gt Poland 1138 so I suppose that
there must have been some kind of power struggle when Boleslaw III died in 1138
as to which son would success him.

pj.evans...

Moriarty (p84) has both 'king of Poland' and 'lord of Cracow and
Silesia' attached to this man. IIRC, the kingship sometimes went from
eldest son to the next son, and so on, so it's possible he was both. (I
Am Not An Expert, I just have a library and a memory.)

P J Evans