The Duchy of Pless (or the Duchy of Pszczyna, German: Herzogtum Pleß, Polish: Księstwo Pszczyńskie) was a Duchy of Silesia, with its capital at Pless (present-day...

Pleß), a town in southern Poland Duchy of Pless, a historic territory in Silesia Pleß (mountain), a mountain in Thuringia, Germany Daisy, Princess of...

and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. A mountain in Germany. Old German form of the surname Pless. de:Clementine Plessner This page lists...

Oświęcimskie, Herzogtum Auschwitz) Duchy of Prudnik (Prudnícké knížectví, Księstwo Prudnickie, Herzogtum Prudnik) Duchy of Pless (Pštinské knížectví, Księstwo...

documented since the 14th century. The noble family first appeared in the Duchy of Pless (Pszczyna) in Upper Silesia, when one Estepan de Woszyczyki, probably...

The Pless conference was a conference held at the castle of Prince Pless located in the Duchy of Pless on January 8, 1917. The conference involved the...

which fascinated and inspired him. In 1742 Pless became part of the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1848 the Duchy of Pless became a principality, ruled by the...

The Duchy of Krnov (Latin: Ducatus Carnoviensis, Czech: Krnovské knížectví, Polish: Księstwo Karniowskie) or Duchy of Jägerndorf (German: Herzogtum Jägerndorf)...

former Duchy of Pless from the hands of his maternal uncle, Count John Erdmann of Promnitz. From that time on, he styled himself as Prince of Anhalt-Köthen-Pless...

Louis of Anhalt-Pless (16 July 1783 in Pless – 5 November 1841 in Pless) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Pless...

Liebling was born into a Jewish family in the Duchy of Pless, Kingdom of Prussia. Liebling was from a famous family of musicians. His three brothers, George,...

Princes of Pless. The remaining duchy passed to the only surviving son Adam Wenceslaus, who in 1610 shifted back to Roman Catholicism for the sake of political...

1818, of the duchy of Anhalt-Köthen. He was the second son of Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless, and his wife, Countess Louise Ferdinande of Stolberg-Wernigerode...

The Duchy of Anhalt (German: Herzogtum Anhalt) was a historical German duchy. The duchy was located between the Harz Mountains in the west and the River...

Anhalt-Köthen [pl] dukes and the Hochbergs [pl]. In a document of sale of the Duchy of Pless issued by Casimir II in Czech language in Fryštát on 21 February...

The Pleß is a mountain, 645.4 m above sea level (NHN), in the county of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in the Salzungen Werra Highland in the German state of Thuringia...

Place d'Armes (Luxembourgish: Plëss d'Arem, or simply Plëss) is a square in Luxembourg City in the south of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Centrally placed...

and music critic Leonard Liebling. Born into a Jewish family in the Duchy of Pless, Silesia, Germany, in what is present-day Pszczyna, Poland, Liebling...

established in the 16th century by Karol von Promnitz, the owner of the Duchy of Pless. Initially the village was known as Neudorf (Polish: Nowa Wieś,...

pledged Mikołów and the Duchy of Pless to Władysław II; John II redeemed these possessions. In 1387, John II founded the city of Bieruń and appointed a...

of Pless (Pszczyna), Count von Hochberg and Baron of Fürstenstein (Książ). He was the husband (1891–1923) of Mary Theresa Olivia Hochberg von Pless,...

incumbent in the constituency of the Duchy of Pless-Rybnik in of Upper Silesia, Victor Herzog von Ratibor, the Duke of Ratibor, a Free Conservative Catholic...

Anhalt-Pless and the last ruler of the duchy of Anhalt-Köthen. He was the fourth (but third surviving) son of Frederick Erdmann, Prince of Anhalt-Pless, by...

taking Duchy of Krnov, Bruntál, Rybnik, Pleß and Baborów. In late 1437, a majority of the Bohemian Estates elected Albert II from the House of Habsburg...

Pszczyna [ˈpʂt͡ʂɨna] (German: Pleß, Czech: Pština) is a town in southern Poland, population 25,823 (2019), and is the seat of a local gmina (commune) and...

Casimir II, Duke of Cieszyn from the Piast dynasty, who sold it in 1517 to the Hungarian magnates of the Thurzó family, forming the Pless state country....

herself as Lady of Pszczyna, suggesting that she had received Pless as her jointure. Nicholas V and Wenceslaus II ruled their duchy jointly until October...

consisted of the Kingdom of Bohemia, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire according to the Golden Bull of 1356, the Margraviate of Moravia, the Duchies of Silesia...

become one of the so-called stem duchies of the German Kingdom and subsequently the Holy Roman Empire which formed out of the eastern partition of the Carolingian...

upper-silesian village of Kosztowy had 718 inhabitants in 1885. From 1818 to 1922 it was part of the Kreis (district) of Pless until it was turned over...