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Kingdom of Poland in Silesia


This is a Polish state that splintered from Bohemia that calls itself the rightful Kingdom of Poland.



The Beginings


The Bohemians, who distrusted him as the betrayer of Hus, were soon in arms; and the flame was fanned when Sigismund declared his intention of prosecuting the war against heretics. Three campaigns against the Hussites ended in disaster although the army of his most loyal ally Stibor of Stiboricz and later his son Stibor of Beckov could hold the hussite side away from the borders of the Kingdom. The Turks were again attacking Hungary. The king, unable to obtain support from the German princes, was powerless in Bohemia. His attempts at the diet of Nuremberg in 1422 to raise a mercenary army were foiled by the resistance of the towns; and in 1424 the electors, among whom was Sigismund's former ally, Frederick I of Hohenzollern, sought to strengthen their own authority at the expense of the king. Although the scheme failed, the danger to Germany from the Hussites led to the Union of Bingen, which virtually deprived Sigismund of the leadership of the war and the headship of Germany.
He was supported by the Silesian Dukes in his wars against the Hussites until in 1440, he decided to make peace with the Hussites and decided to make a treaty wherein he gives up the rule of Bohemia and Moravia to the Hussites, he maintains his rule in Lusatia and Silesia due to the Catholic Poles, Sorbs and Germans ,his daughter, Elisabeth of Luxembourg ruled after his death in 1445, she was not elected to the Thrones of Hungary and Bohemia which gone to the Hunyadis and the Podiebrady, before she became the ruler, she married Jan I of Opole and ruled Silesia and Lusatia as a separate realm from Bohemia, all of the Silesian dukes pledged allegiance to them except for Bolko V the Hussite, most of the Subjects are either Catholic Poles or Sorbs with a minority of Germans, Elisabeth of Luxembourg bought back the Duchy of Siewierz from the Bishop of Krakow.

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