The Duchy of Gà Âogów (, ) or Duchy of Glogau () was one of the Duchies of Silesia, formed in course of the medieval fragmentation of Poland into smaller provincial duchies. Its capital was Gà Âogów in Lower Silesia. It existed in 1177âÂÂ1185 and 1251âÂÂ1506 and was ruled by the Silesian Piasts, followed by John Corvinus and the Jagiellonian dynasty.
In 1177, under the rule of Konrad Spindleshanks, the youngest son of High Duke Wà Âadysà Âaw II the Exile of Poland, the town of Gà Âogów had already become the capital of a duchy in its own right. However, when Konrad died between 1180 and 1190, his duchy was again inherited by his elder brother Bolesà Âaw I the Tall, and re-incorporated to the Duchy of Silesia/Wrocà Âaw. After the death of Bolesà Âaw's grandson Duke Henry II the Pious at the 1241 Battle of Legnica his sons in 1248 divided the Lower Silesian Duchy of Wrocà Âaw among themselves. Konrad I, a child when his father died, claimed his rights too and in 1251 and received the northern Gà Âogów territory from his elder brother Bolesà Âaw II the Bald, then Duke of Legnica.
Under the rule of Konrad's son Henry III the size of the principality was fluctuating, as fragmentation and division continued. In 1273, smaller duchies of à Âcinawa and à »agaà  were split off. In 1296, the duchy expanded to the east and south-west obtaining the towns of Gorzów, Kluczbork, Milicz, Oleà Ânica, à Âcinawa and Trzebnica from the Duchy of Wrocà Âaw and Bolesà Âawiec and Chojnów from the Duchy of Legnica. In 1312, the duchies of Oleà Ânica and Woà Âów were split off.
After Henry's son Przemko II had died without heirs in 1331, King John the Blind was able to seize the duchy as a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Bohemia, itself part of the Holy Roman Empire, and granted it to the Piast Duke Henry I of Jawor six years later. As Henry I left no issue, King John's son, Charles IV incorporated one half of Gà Âogów into Crown of Bohemia, granting the remaining half to Duke Henry V of Iron of à »agaà  in 1349.
When in 1476 the Gà Âogów line of the Piast dynasty became extinct with the death of Henry XI, fights over his succession broke out between his cousin Duke Jan II the Mad of à »agaà  and Elector Albert III Achilles of Brandenburg, the father of Henry's widow Barbara of Brandenburg. In consequence the duchy's northern part of Krosno Odrzaà Âskie (Crossen an der Oder) was incorporated by the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1482. The truce however was broken by Duke Jan II, who continued his attacks on the neighbouring territories and in 1480 even invaded the royal Bohemian half of the Gà Âogów duchy. This action finally brought the Bohemian antiking Matthias Corvinus to the scene, who in 1488 conquered Gà Âogów, deposed Jan II and made his son John the duke.
Upon Matthias' death in 1490 his territories were reacquired by Bohemian king Vladislaus II Jagiellon, who granted the fief of Gà Âogów to his brothers John I Albert in 1491 and later Sigismund I the Old in 1499, both future kings of Poland. In 1506 the duchy finally became an immediate dominion of the Bohemian Crown, which, after Vladislaus' son Louis II Jagiellon had died in 1526, were inherited by Archduke Ferdinand I of Austria and became part of the Habsburg monarchy.
Gà Âogów remained part of the Crown of Bohemia within the province of Silesia until the end of the First Silesian War in 1742 when, like the majority of Silesia, it became part of Frederick the Great's Kingdom of Prussia (which was definitively confirmed by the Treaty of Aachen in 1748). Even the Seven Years' War did not change this status. In 1815 the Duchy (along with other Silesian duchies) ceased to exist due to radical administrative reform. All of Silesia was unified into a single administrative unit, Province of Silesia.
Finally, after World War II the territories of Prussian Silesia east of the Oder-Neisse line were granted to Poland by the Allied Powers under the Potsdam Agreement.
Again part of the Duchy of Wrocà Âaw, from 1248 on part of Legnica
Duchy vassalized by the Kingdom of Bohemia
Annexed by Bohemia, one half to Duchy of à »agaà  (1349), ruled by:
Line extinct, whole duchy directly under the Crown of Bohemia
1482: Northern part sold to Brandenburg
Burial sites of the dukes of Gà Âogów within the duchy were the Collegiate Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gà Âogów, LubiÃ à ¼ Abbey and Purification of Saint Mary church in Koà ¼uchów. Several dukes were buried in the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in à »agaà  and Collegiate Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Legnica in the neighbouring duchies of à »agaà  and Legnica. Henry X Rumpold was buried in the Haderslev Cathedral in Denmark, whereas John I Albert and Sigismund I the Old as Kings of Poland were buried in the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków.