Testament of Boleslaw III

The Testament of Boleslaw III was a political act by Boleslaw III of Poland.
He established the rules for governance of the Polish kingdom by his four surviving sons after his demise.
By issuing it, Boleslaw planned to guarantee that his heirs would not fight among themselves.
However, after his demise his sons fought each other.
Suppose the provisions of Boleslaw's Testament had been carried out. What happens then?
 
It might help to get a look at the provisions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_of_Bolesław_III_Krzywousty

Boleslaw gave his four sons duchies around the central corridor. The oldest son, Wladyslaw, also got the corridor, the "Seniorate Province", and was named overlord over his three brothers.

They fell out, there was a civil war, Wladyslaw acted like a total autocrat and alienated his subordinates, and in the end he fled to Bohemia. The junior dukes and their heirs fought for control of the entire country and in the end the last one standing, Princess Jadwiga, married the Grand Duke of Lithuania and started the Jagiellonian Dynasty.
 
It might help to get a look at the provisions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_of_Bolesław_III_Krzywousty

Boleslaw gave his four sons duchies around the central corridor. The oldest son, Wladyslaw, also got the corridor, the "Seniorate Province", and was named overlord over his three brothers.

They fell out, there was a civil war, Wladyslaw acted like a total autocrat and alienated his subordinates, and in the end he fled to Bohemia. The junior dukes and their heirs fought for control of the entire country and in the end the last one standing, Princess Jadwiga, married the Grand Duke of Lithuania and started the Jagiellonian Dynasty.

There is quite the gap between king Jadwiga marrying Jogaila and the civil wars following Boleslaw iii's death.

She wasn't the last duke standing, she was the king of a reconstituted Poland inherited from her father Louis from his uncle Casimir and from Casimir's father.
 
I think I would prefer if Henry the Righteous(Probus) is the one who inherits Poland in the 1300's in that way Poland will be having conflicts with Germany rather than Russia regarding Brandenburg and Bohemia.
 
I think I would prefer if Henry the Righteous(Probus) is the one who inherits Poland in the 1300's in that way Poland will be having conflicts with Germany rather than Russia regarding Brandenburg and Bohemia.

Or someone like Bolesław Rogatka could sell half of the country to Poland's neighbors.
 
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