Kedzierzyn Kozle

Kedzierzyn Kozle is a town in southwestern Poland, the regulatory focus of Kedzierzyn Kozle County in Opole Voivodeship. A fringe stronghold held by the Polish Piast administration was first referenced in 1104, when it was attacked by the Premyslid ruler Svatopluk of Olomouc. The Kozle castellany was a piece of the Polish Duchy of Silesia since 1138, from 1172 or 73 of the Upper Silesian Duchy of Raciborz under the standard of the Silesian Piasts. In 1281, it was acquired by Duke Casmir of Bytom, who additionally called himself Duke of Kozle.

Casmir before long swung to the neighboring Kingdom of Bohemia in 1289 he paid reverence to King Wenceslaus II and got his duchy as a Bohemian fief. In 1293, he vested Kozle with town benefits, had dividers risen. After Casmir was prevailing by his child Wladyslaw in 1312, Kozle remained the capital of a self sufficient duchy, administered by the Bytom part of the Silesian Piasts until the passing of Duke Boleslaw in 1355. Lord Charles IV arbitrated the returned Bohemian fief to the Piast duke Conrad I of Olesnica where after the town remained an ownership of the Olesnica line until it ended up terminated in 1492.