Przecław of Pogorzela was born May 5, 1310 into a noble family from Pogorzela and by April 1329 was Canon of Wrocław.
The pope soon appointed three prelates (Jan Očko of Vlašim, archbishop of Prague, Przeclaw of Pogorzela, bishop of Wrocław, and Florian of Mokrsko, bishop of Cracow) to examine the state of affairs in the principality.