The next year Henry's ally Władysław III Spindleshanks succeeded Leszek I as High Duke ; however as he was still contested by his nephew in Greater Poland, he made Henry his governor at Kraków, whereby the Silesian duke once again became entangled into the dispute over the Seniorate Province.

Bezprym had, however, always been disliked by his father, as indicated by his name ( the Piasts tended to give names such as Bolesław, Mieszko and later Kazimierz, Władysław and emperors ' names, such as Otto, Konrad ( Conrad ), and Henryk ( Heinrich ).

The police however were unable to arrest Dzerzhinsky until the end of 1912, when they found the apartment where he lived, by the name of Władysław Ptasiński.

Lack of a legitimate heir, however, remained a concern for Władysław I and in 1085 he and his wife Judith of Bohemia sent rich gifts, among which was a life size statue of a child made of gold, to the Benedictine Sanctuary of Saint Giles in Saint-Gilles, Provance begging for offspring.

Shortly after his ascension, however, Władysław I Herman was forced by the barons to give up the de facto reins of government to Count Palatine Sieciech.

Władysław I Herman, however, agreed to divide the realm between the brothers, each to be granted his own province while the Prince – Władysław I himself – kept control of Mazovia and its capital at Plock.

Władysław was liked by szlachta ( Polish nobility ), however his father's plans to secure him the throne of Poland ( vivente rege ) were unpopular and eventually crushed in the Zebrzydowski Rebellion ( rokosz ).

This was however unpopular, both with Catholic nobles and the Catholic Church, and when it became clear to Władysław that this would not convince the Swedes to elect him to their throne, this plan, with quiet support from Władysław himself, was dropped.

At this point, however, king Władysław, who up to that point had remained in the background and relinquished full leadership to Hunyadi, assumed command and with his bodyguards carried out an all-out attack on the elite troops of the Sultan, the Janissaries.

At the same time, however, the Red Army was marching into Poland defeating the Nazis and Stalin toughened his stance against the Polish exiled government in London, now demanding not only the recognition of the Curzon Line as the border, but the resignation from the government of all ' elements hostile to the Soviet Union ', which meant in practice president Władysław Raczkiewicz and most of the Polish ministers.

When Władysław succeeded his father, he reinstated the voivode, however the increased power of Włostowic fostered deep negative relations, especially with his wife Agnes of Babenberg, who-not without reason-considered him a traitor.

By 1145 however, it seemed that a reconciliation between the High Duke and Włostowic was possible, as evidenced by the invitation to Władysław by the voivode on the occasion of Włostowic's son wedding.

For unknown reasons however, despite Barbarossa's victory, Władysław II to his great disappointment was not restored in the Polish throne.

The 14th century obituary of Oliwa Abbey denotes the date of his death with 7 February 1207, however Sambor probably died under the reign of High Duke Władysław III Spindleshanks ( 1202 – 1206 ).

Thanks to this Władysław could finally obtain his own independent Duchy, located in Southern Greater Poland ( the Obra River ); however, the prince only assumed the government there as a guardian of his minor nephew Władysław Odonic ( son of Odon, born ca.

Somewhat surprising was the reaction to these events by Henry I the Bearded, who not only accepted the exiles, but also endowed Władysław Odonic with the Duchy of Kalisz, however, with the condition to return to him after he regained his inheritance.

Thanks to this victory, Władysław Odonic was able to take control over almost all Greater Poland ; however, Odonic's ally Swantopolk II unexpectedly broke the existing treaty, took Nakło and proclaimed himself Duke, ended his homage to Leszek I the White.

They had, however, little effect on both Kazanowski and Władysław.

The intention of the two brothers, was the encirclement of Duke Władysław I ; however, he predicted the maneuver and sent back his forces back to Masovia.

At the session of the kapituła ( chapter ), however, the nomination was blocked by General Władysław Anders after Duch adamantly opposed Anders ' own nomination of his paymaster for the Virtuti Militari.

Władysław was, however, faster and gave the Grand Prince several additional political advantages, as a result of which the marriage of Bolesław with the daughter of Grand Prince Vsevolod, Zvenislava took place in 1142.

As the result of the battle, the Seven Boyars, a group of Russian nobles, deposed the tsar Vasily Shuysky on, and recognized the Polish prince Władysław IV Vasa as the Tsar of Russia on.

Władysław turned the deal down with the agreement of both Polish and Silesian nobles, unwilling to burden himself with new military commitments in the west.

When the war resumed in June 1410, Władysław advanced into the Teutonic heartland at the head of an army of about 20, 000 mounted nobles, 15, 000 armed commoners, and 2, 000 professional cavalry mainly hired from Bohemia.

Władysław supported his brother Švitrigaila as grand duke of Lithuania, but when Švitrigaila, with the support of the Teutonic Order and dissatisfied Rus ' nobles, rebelled against Polish overlordship in Lithuania, the Poles, under the leadership of Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków, occupied Podolia, which Władysław had awarded to Lithuania in 1411, and Volhynia.

The death in 1431 of Princess Jadwiga, the last heir of Piast blood, released Władysław to make his sons by Sophia of Halshany his heirs, though he had to sweeten the Polish nobles with concessions to ensure their agreement, since the monarchy was elective.

For the 13th century monarch, see Władysław I the Elbow-high, and for other nobles with a similar name, please see Ladislaus I ( disambiguation ).

The Polish nobles were outraged and demanded that Švitrigaila acknowledged fealty to his brother Jogaila ( Władysław II Jagiełło ), King of Poland.

The homage was renewed in 1633 after the election of a new Polish king, Władysław IV Waza.

The Union of Vilnius and Radom of 1401 confirmed Vytautas's status as grand duke under Władysław's overlordship, while assuring the title of grand duke to the heirs of Władysław rather than those of Vytautas: should Władysław die without heirs, the Lithuanian boyars were to elect a new monarch.

Anticipating a new Islamic invasion, also encouraged by the young and inexperienced new Ottoman sultan ; Hungary co-operated with Venice and the pope, Eugene IV, to organize a new crusader army led by Janos Hunyadi and Władysław III.

Not till the crown prince, Władysław arrived with tardy reinforcements did the war assume a different character, Chodkiewicz opening a new career of victory by taking the fortress of Dorogobuzh in 1617.

Around early 17th century Urszula lost much of her influence, as Władysław gained new teachers and mentors, such as priests Gabriel Prowancjusz, Andrzej Szołdrski and Marek Łętkowski, and in the military matters, Zygmunt Kazanowski.

In 1931, Władysław Ślebodziński introduced a new differential operator, later called by David van Dantzig that of Lie derivation, which can be applied to scalars, vectors, tensors and affine connections and which proved to be a powerful instrument in the study of groups of automorphisms.

In 1633 he joined the Commowealth forces again, to fight under the new Polish king, Władysław IV, in the Smolensk War against Muscovy that lasted untl 1634.

Following the inducements of Władysław and Frederick's aunt Agnes of Babenberg, the Holy Roman Emperor launched a new expedition to Greater Poland in 1157.

Leszek's new stepmother drove her husband's previous children from their inheritance, among them the later Polish king Władysław I the Elbow-high.

The new political line of Przemysł I was based on a close cooperation with the Church ( especially the Bishops of Poznań, Bogufał II and Bogufał III ); this caused the opposition of the knighthood, who in 1244 rebelled against him and claimed the abolition of the judicial and tax immunities gained by the Bishops from Władysław Odonic.

In 1407, John II separated the area that is modern-day Pszczyna from his duchy as wittum for his new wife Helena of Lithuania ( Helena Korybutówna, niece of Władysław Jagiełło, the king of Poland ) ( along with the amts of Bieruń and Mikołów ).

Boyars then proclaimed the Polish prince of the Commonwealth Władysław IV Waza as the new Tsar of Russia.

The commander chosen by General Władysław Sikorski to ultimately lead the new army, General Władysław Anders, had been just released from the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, on August 4, and did not issue his first orders or announce his appointment as commander until August 22.

The licence was bought after the rise to power of a new communist party leader, Edward Gierek, who wanted to gain popular favour by increasing consumption after the Spartan period under Władysław Gomułka.

in 1433, the new King of Hungary, Ulaszlo I ( also King of Poland as Władysław III Warneńczyk ), launched the Varna campaign against the Ottoman Empire, under the command of Hunyadi, in an effort to drive the Turks out of Europe.

The Polish nobility was unhappy that Jogaila, their new king, now Władysław II Jagiełło, spent too much time on the affairs of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

In 1956, under the new party leadership of Władysław Gomułka, Poland experienced a dramatic social and cultural shift.

On June 27, 1942, a new tradition was born: to commemorate the patron saint's day of the Polish President Władysław Raczkiewicz and the Commander-in-Chief Władysław Sikorski, members of the Armia Krajowa stamped several hundred copies of the German-backed propaganda newspaper, Nowy Kurier Warszawski ( The New Warsaw Courier ), with the Kotwica.