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Prince Casimir dies in the battle of Plowce
The White Eagle burns and Rises from the Ashes part I The White Eagle burns and Rises from the Ashes like a Phoenix
The Teutonic Order attempted to take Brześć Kujawski after standing all day in the sun. The German army from the Teutonic Order had 7,000 men, and was opposed by a Polish army of 5,000 men. On September 27, 1331 one-third of the Teutonic Order's force of knights under Dietrich von Altenburg left the blockaded peasant town of Płowce. The Poles, under Wladysław I the Elbow-high and his son Casimir, immediately attacked in a frontal assault. They were immediately joined by Polish detachments hiding in a forest to the left of the town. Reportedly, during the first phase of the battle Prince Casimir was ordered to depart so as not to deprive the Polish Kingdom of the presumptive heir, Casimir told his father that he will stay at the battle and help his father and he stayed at the battle, however Prince Casimir died in action and was defeated by the Teutonic Knights, the news of the death of Prince Casimir was heard by the King but the Polish army won but Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh was left heirless by the battle and Prince Casimir was found in the battlefield, full of Blood and he told to his father that:
"Our cause will never die, there will be someone who will continue our own cause"
After uttering his last words, the life on Prince Casimir's body faded and dissappeared, Prince Casimir died and Wladyslaw carried his lifeless body and was buried in Krakow.
His last words was very prophetic and his prophecy did happen and Poland would gain independence under a strong ruler in the future.
King John of Bohemia who was recognized in Silesia and Masovia as the King of Poland started to invade Poland with the help of the Teutonic Knights, the process of invasion took a year but Greater Poland fell to the rule of the Luxembourgs first. Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh was surprised about the fact that King John of Bohemia took advantage of his own sons death and it made him angry and wanted to fight King John of Bohemia but shortly he himself died in 1332 due to grief of the loss of his son and the fact that John I of Bohemia invaded Greater Poland, after Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh died and because of that the treaty of Olomuoc was signed on 1332 made Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh's daughter, Elisabeth I of Poland, the Queen and guaranteed her hand in marriage to John I's future Grandson or Second son, John-Henry or any of the Luxembourg, Elisabeth of Poland, the Grand Daughter of Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh was declared King of Poland Sejm and in 1334 Blanche of Valois gave birth to a son named Wenceslaus was born.
Elisabeth I of Poland, the grand daughter of Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh was pledged to marry Wenceslaus of Bohemia in order to merge the claims to the Polish throne, however, both Wenceslaus of Bohemia and Blanche of Valois died the next year due to the plague so Elisabeth of Poland is rather betrothed to Charles of Bohemia, the father of her previously betrothed and after a year she is married to Charles of Bohemia, who became the King of Poland, de Jure Uxoris and Aldona of Lithuania fled to Pomerania and tied the knot with Bogislaw II of Pomerania and John I of Bohemia became the regent for Elisabeth I of Poland.
Despite the fact that John and Elisabeth became estranged during the last years of their marriage, the king remained a widower for the next four years. The French King Philip VI wanted to tie John more closely with France, and he suggested to the Bohemian king a second marriage. The proposed bride was Beatrice, youngest daughter of the Duke of Bourbon and member of a cadet branch of the House of Capet. Beatrice was already betrothed, however, to Philip, the second son of Philip I, Prince of Taranto, as of 29 May 1321. The engagement was broken soon after the marriage negotiations with Bohemia started.
The marriage of King John of Bohemia and Beatrice of Bourbon was solemnized in the Château de Vincennes in December 1334. But because the two were related in a prohibited degree (they were second cousins through their common descent from Henry V, Count of Luxembourg, and his wife Margaret of Bar), Pope Benedict XII had to give dispensation for the marriage, which was granted in Avignon on 9 January 1335 at the request of Philip VI.
The marriage contract stipulated that if a son was born from the marriage, the County of Luxembourg (King John's paternal heritage), as well as lands belonging to it, would go to him. King John's sons from his first marriage, Charles and John Henry, were not informed of the contents of the marriage contract, but both princes were compelled to accept it along with the knights and citizens of Luxembourg in August 1335.
On 25 February 1337, the queen gave birth in Prague to her only child, a son named Wenceslaus after the holy patron of the Přemyslid dynasty. Perhaps with this gesture either the queen or her husband tried to gain the favor of the Bohemians. However, the relationship between Beatrice and her new subjects remained estranged: her coronation as Queen of Bohemia in St. Vitus Cathedral three months later, on 18 May, was an event of spectacular indifference from the citizens of Prague.
Shortly after her coronation, in June 1337, Beatrice left Bohemia leaving her son behind, and went to live in Luxembourg. After this, she rarely visit the Bohemian Kingdom.
the marriage between Charles of Bohemia and Elisabeth I of Poland was consumated on late 1340's when Elisabeth's regency ended, so they have a son named Sigismund who was born on June 4, 1350.
Meantime, in 1324 Boleslaw Yuri of Galicia located the towns of Volodymyr-Volynskyi on Magdeburg law, and Sanok in 1339. He was poisoned in 1340 by orthodox boyars and died without an heir, before his father who continued rule Masovian principality and annexed Galicia as well from his dead son, starting a union between Masovia and Galicia forcing the Boyars that killed his son into submission with the help of the Teutonic Knights.