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Rationale for Polish name

  • person descended from the Polish Piast dynasty
  • territory of the duchy belonged to Poland before the duchy was created
  • territory of the duchy became part of Poland in 1945, long after the duchy dissolved

Rationale for German/name

  • duchy belonged to Bohemia and thus the HRE
  • person was Germanized
  • territory was Germanized

The Wikipedia naming conventions important for this case are:

Karasek (talk) 09:47, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Rationale for Slavic name:
    • Duchy belonged to Czech speaking Bohemia (official language was Czech)
    • no proof of Germanization - he was multilingual - Latin was used in the Church, Czech/Polish for communication with the King and Archbishop and with part of population, German for communication with part of population. --Yopie (talk) 14:04, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]