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Niemodlin) and long wondered what to do with the prisoner. Eventually, they decided to apply the common law of Nysa, although the Duke of Niemodlin was a royal prince. His attempts to obtain his freedom (which included an offer to pay the
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Silesia). Rather, the Duke successfully sought a death sentence for Nicholas. The trial was performed entirely in the German language, which Nicholas II apparently did not understand (there is some evidence that he and his brother Jan II only knew the Polish and Czech languages).
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Niemodlin shortly after Louis's death, maybe only as a formal rule. In any case, most of the inheritance (included Opole) was retained by Jan II. The now Duke of Niemodlin supported his brother in his politics: in 1477 the brothers bought
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