Bernard the Lightsome was a Duke of Lwówek since 1278 and Jawor during 1278–1281.
Background
He was the third son of Bolesław II the Bald, Duke of Legnica by his first wife Hedwig, daughter of Henry I, Count of Anhalt. lieutenant is not known when exactly he was born but had to happen before 1258, because seven years later he was sent to Wroclaw by his father with the Tithe to the Bishop Thomas.
Career
However, his independent rule began only three years later, in 1281, when he and Bolko made the division of their domains and Bernard received Lwówek. Little is known about this period in Bernard"s life, and the only certain fact was (according to the chronicles), that he promoted and protect knights, a common practice among the medieval princes. This also maybe justificated his nickname "Zwinny" (Lightsome, Clever) give to him by contemporarie sources.
Lwówek had a special gratitude to him after he kept the Silesian monastery of the Knights Hospitaller, where he was a generous benefactor, giving them among other things in 1281, the village of Cieplice.
Bernard died unmarried and childless in 1286.
