Battle of Hundsfeld

Battle of Hundsfeld
Date 1109 Location Hundsfeld, near Breslau, Silesia inside Kingdom of Poland Result Polish victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Poland	Holy Roman Empire
Commanders
Bolesław III Wrymouth	Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor

The Battle of Hundsfeld or Battle of Psie Pole was allegedly fought on August 24, 1109 between the Holy Roman Empire in aid of Zbigniew of Poland against his stepbrother, Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth of Poland. The Imperial forces were led by Emperor Henry V, while the Polish forces were led by Bolesław. The result was a Polish victory.

Because of the many corpses left by the battle, Bishop Wincenty Kadłubek of Kraków in his Chronica about 1200 remarked that the "dogs which, devouring so many corpses [of the fallen], fell into a mad ferocity, so that no one dared venture there." The battlefield became known as "dogs' field" (German: Hundsfeld, Polish: Psie Pole). The territory is now part of the Psie Pole district of modern Wrocław (Breslau).

Kadłubek's relation is unsub-stantiated; present-day historians claim this "great battle" was rather an unimportant skirmish, and Kadłubek's chronicle (written almost hundred years after this incident) in this topic is not reliable^[1].

See also

• Battle of Głogów (Glogau)

1. ^
   – "S. Orgelbranda Encyklopedia Powszechna", Warsaw 1902, vol. XII, page 406
   – M. Kaczmarek, "Bitwa na Psim Polu", in: Encyklopedia Wrocławia, Wrocław 2000

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