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| - 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 5000 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
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| - 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 5000 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 the body of Prince Casimir was found in the battlefield and was buried in Krakow.The King of Bohemia and Poland, John who was recognized by Masovian and Silesian duchies knew about the death of Casimir III in October of 1331,with help of the Teutonic Knights and Masovian and Silesian Piasts and John of Bohemia and Poland, and the union of Gniezno was made and the archbishop of Gniezno recognized John of Bohemia as the King of Poland and Bohemia formally and was coronated there as the King of Poland, Wladyslaw heard the news of Greater Poland being seized by John of Bohemia and John of Bohemia is crowned as the King of Poland and their next target was Krakow, the capital of the Polish Kingdom, Krakow was sacked by the armies of John the King of Bohemia and Poland, Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh fled to the husband of his daughter, Charles Robert of Hungary and died the following year, Aldona and her daughter Elizabeth went to Pomerania where Aldona of Lithuania went to the court of Boguslaw, a prince in Pomerania, the Masovian dukes made a pact of inheritance with the Kings of Bohemia and Poland.Jutta, the daughter of John of Luxembourg was married to the future John II of France on 28 July 1332 at the church of Notre-Dame in Melun. She was 17 years old, and the future king was 13. The name for Jutta (or Guta) translatable into English as Good, was changed by the time of marriage to Bonne (French) or Bona (Latin). Upon marriage, Bonne was the wife of the heir to the French throne, becoming Duchess of Normandy, and Countess of Anjou and of Maine. The wedding was celebrated in the presence of six thousand guests. The festivities were prolonged by a further two months when the young groom was finally knighted at the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. Duke John of Normandy (as King John II was known as a prince) was solemnly granted the arms of a knight in front of a prestigious assistance bringing together the kings of Luxembourg and Navarre, and the dukes of Burgundy, Lorraine and the Brabant. In 1333, Aldona of Lithuania said to Boguslaw V let's start a battle against the Luxembourgs, Bogislaw V said to Aldona of Lithuania that he does not want to start a battle that would drain their military and that a war with Poland-Bohemia will drain their resources and lose the battle and they always have petty wars with the Teutonic Order, Aldona became calm and talked to him to and betrothed her daughter to him.Blanche of Valois gave birth to a son whom his father named Wenceslaus in June 3, 1334, Charles of Bohemia came to Pomerania to seek the hand of Elisabeth of Poland for her to be pledged to Wenceslaus, the son of John of Bohemia, something that irritated Aldona and she disagreed, she was enraged by the proposal and she expelled Charles of Bohemia from Boguslaw's court, Elisabeth of Poland was instead betrothed to Boguslaw IV who sheltered Aldona, Aldona herself was married Prince Otto of Denmark in 1335, it was in no way that Boguslaw IV can support Elisabeth of Poland's weak claims to the throne of Poland but the betrothal pushed through in order to protect herself from the Luxembourgs, Blanche of Valois and Wenceslaus of Bohemia were sent to Krakow.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.Beatrice de Bourbon arrived in Bohemia on 2 January 1336.On 25 February 1337, Queen Beatrice gave birth in Prague to her only child, he was named Henry.Shortly after her coronation as the Queen of Bohemia and Poland, in June 1337, Beatrice left Bohemia leaving her son behind, and went to live in Luxembourg. After this, she rarely visit the Bohemian Kingdom.In 1339 the attention of the Luxembourgs was changed, Elisabeth of Poland was not important anymore because another heiress to Wladyslaw the Elbowhigh from Swidnica, The infant Grand daughter of Henry II of Swidnica, Kunigunde of Swidnica is betrothed and pledged to Wenceslaus and Wenceslaus was assigned by his own grandfather to be the Highduke of Poland, the direct ruler of Greater Poland, Lesser Poland and the overlord of Silesian and Masovian duchies and the Duchy of Wroclaw once he comes of Age.In 1340, the Duke of Kuyavia, Wladyslaw the White was betrothed to Margaret of Bohemia. Wladyslaw made peace with the Teutonic Knights and along with his recognition for John of Bohemia as the King of Poland. The Szlachta were granted privileges by John of Bohemia.
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