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By making fief promises in the 14th century, the Silesian princes became vassals of the Czech kings, which put the local Piast and later Přemyslid princes in a new situation. In addition to their obligations to the Czech monarch, the Leinery Institute provided the Silesian landowners with a whole range of guarantees for their property and status. The Czech monarch also had the right to judge the disputes of the Silesian princes, which especially John of Luxembourg and Charles IV. they actively used without proceeding to create the institutional tools that the monarch could use. Already in the second half of the fourteenth century, however, we can observe an effort to transfer the disputes of the Silesian princes to the plenum of the princely court in Wrocław, which was presided over by the Wrocław governor, who was a representative of the king. A similar system was also tried to be established by Sigismund of Luxemburg in 1435 or by Matyáš Corvín in 1474 - the "landfryd" promoted by him also contains a clause on the role of the High Silesian Governor in disputes between the local princes. But the real judicial body was created only by Vladislav II. Jagiellonian in 1493 by establishing the so-called Ober-und fürsten Recht, or princely court. The presented contribution will try to find answers to the questions, what tools did the Czech monarchs use to resolve the disputes of the Silesian princes? Can we even talk about any established procedure for resolving disputes or is each case specific and the given monarch chose the tools resulting from the situation? In addition, emphasis will also be placed on the gradual development of the institutional background for resolving the disputes of the Silesian princes, as we can trace it in the preserved sources.