Książę Bartłomiej ziębicki o konfliktach zbrojnych na Śląsku w latach 1509—1513
Duke Bartłomiej of Ziębice on the military conflicts in Silesia between 1509 and 1513

Summary/Abstract: This article includes research and an edition of the source that has not been known so far; the source concerns the conflicts in Silesia between 1509 and 1513. A detailed analysis of the text allowed researchers to discover the identity of the source’s author. The author turned out to be Bartłomiej of Ziębice, the grandson of King Jiři of Podiebrad and one of the most important politicians in the times when the Jagiellonians ruled Czech. The source in question is a record of the public defense of Duke Bartłomiej, hence the text is one-sided in its opinions, but it still considerably enriches our knowledge about the years 1509—1513 in Silesia and the historical events at the time. This was the time of two conflicts in Silesia: the first one was the 1509 dispute of Duke Frederic II of Legnica with Wrocław and the other was the argument between the dukes of Legnica and Duke Bartłomiej. Both of the conflicts illustrated the animosities between the dukes and the inhabitants of Wrocław. Neither of the conflicts has been analyzed in depth in the historiography, even though they soon ceased being merely regional and there was an interest in them even in the Czech-Hungarian court. In order to solve the conflicts a general assembly was held for all the lands of the Czech crown in Kłodzko in 1512. It had been the first assembly of the type held since the Olomunec reconciliation between Ladislaus the Jagiellonian and Maciej Kowin.

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