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3 unusual facts about Erhard of Queis


Erhard of Queis

Queis married Duchess Apollonia, a daughter of Victor of Poděbrady, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, who had been a nun in the Poor Clares monastery at Strzelin.

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Queis and Polentz had ceded temporal power over their bishoprics to the Duke, and only retained the Lordships of Marienwerder und Schönberg.

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Quies sided wholly with the Reformation, just like his predecessor, bishop George of Polentz.



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