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The von Plötzke or von Plötzkau (earlier spelling Ploceke Plocike) family is an old-line noble family from Saxony and Masovia. Conrad de Ploceke for example married the daughter of a lienholder of the Holy Roman Empire Duke Boleslaw III of Poland and his wife Salome von Berg Schelklingen. Płock in Masovia an independent duchy straddling Polish and Saxon territories until the death of the last duke of Masovia in 1526 came under the full rule of the Kingdom of Poland.