 Because both princes were still in their teenage years, they were at first aided by their two paternal uncles, Dukes Bolko II of Ziębice and Henry I of Jawor, as well as their mother Kunigunde, who in 1328 remarried to Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg.Through this union, Bolko II gained a half-brother, Mieszko of Saxe-Wittenberg (b. ca.1330 – d. 1350).