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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: 1173 births, 1173 deaths, 1173 disestablishments, 1173 establishments, Richard of Saint Victor, Boles aw IV the Curly, Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, Shinran, Ly Cao Tong, Rajaraja Chola II, My e, Gaston VI, Viscount of Bearn, Najm ad-Din Ayyub, St Mary Magdalen Nunnery, Bristol, Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Herve IV of Donzy, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, Kolbeinn Tumason, Reginald Fitzurse, Louis I, Duke of Bavaria, Kingdom of Mide, Volmar, Naratheinkha, Raimbaut of Orange, Euphrosyne of Polatsk, List of state leaders in 1173, Nerses IV the Gracious, Roger de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford, Conrad II, Duke of Swabia, Engelbert III, Margrave of Istria, Aimo, Matthew, Count of Boulogne, Reginald of Durham, Uijong of Goryeo, Vladimir III Mstislavich, Narasimha I, Rostislav II of Kiev, Sentonge, Viscount of Bearn, Frederick I, Count of Berg-Altena, Tankei. Excerpt: Boles aw IV the Curly (Polish: ) (ca. 1125 - 3 April 1173) from the Piast dynasty was Duke of Masovia since 1138 and High Duke of Poland from 1146 until his death. He was the third son of Duke Boles aw III Wrymouth of Poland by his second wife Salomea, daughter of the Swabian count Henry of Berg. The death of his older brothers, Leszek and Casimir, in August and October 1131, respectively, left him as the eldest son of their parents. Boles aw was 13 years old at the time of his father's death (1138) and of the legal age to take on the government of the lands he inherited according to his father's testament, the newly created Duchy of Masovia (composed by Masovia and eastern Kuyavia). Because his main domain was Masovia, the prince was called Boles aw of Masovia. In the first years of his government, young Boles aw remained under the strong influence of his mother Salomea and the Voivode Wszebor, who feared the ambition of his elder...
