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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: 37. Chapters: 1238 births, 1238 deaths, 1238 disestablishments, 1238 establishments, 1238 in Europe, Conflicts in 1238, Henry I the Bearded, Nizamuddin Auliya, Madhvacharya, Magnus VI of Norway, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Saint Fina, Elazar Rokeach, William de Malveisin, Yang Hui, Otton de Grandson, Al-Kamil, Peter des Roches, Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly, Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia, Alexander de Stavenby, Henry de Montfort, List of state leaders in 1238, Joan of England, Queen of Scotland, Yuri II of Vladimir, Theobald II of Navarre, Jeanne des Roches, Inchmahome Priory, Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine, Taifa of Valencia, Guglielmo Agnelli, Ubaldo of Gallura, Bench, Godella, Battle of the Sit River, Heinrich I von Mullenark, Battle of Orlygsstaoir, John I of Trebizond, Thowadra Monastery, Azriel, Zhang Hongfan, Ibn Hud, Hugh le Despenser I, Cismar Abbey, Sighvatr Sturluson, uriour Sturludottir, Siege of Brescia, Felix Ua Ruanada, Sturla Sighvatsson, Matsudono Moroie, Hugh of Ibelin, 1238 in poetry. Excerpt: Henry I the Bearded (Polish: German: ca. 1165/70 - 19 March 1238), of the Silesian line of the Piast dynasty, was Duke of Silesia at Wroc aw from 1201 and Duke of Krakow and thus High Duke of all Poland - internally divided - from 1232 until his death. Henry was the son of Duke Boles aw I the Tall of Silesia, by his second wife Christina, a German noble lady. He was born in G ogow (Glogau), Lower Silesia, the fourth son of the ducal couple, and in consequence he had little chance to inherit any land. However, the premature deaths of his older brothers Boles aw, Konrad and Jan (between 1174 and 1190), also given that his older half-brother Duke Jaros aw of Opole was forced into an ecclesiastical career by the intrigues of his stepmother Christina, enabled him to become Boles aw's heir. As a result Henry began his pre...
