Poles will always remain deeply grateful to Turkey for not recognising the partitions of Poland. What is widely known from those times is the ceremonial welcome of foreign envoys at the court of the Sultan – the chamberlain, who was to announce the arrival of the envoy of Poland, after a long time of waiting would declare: “The envoy of ...
Greater Poland’s knights wanted Władysław Odonic’s sons, Przemysł I of Greater Poland and Bolesław the Pious, to rule Greater Poland, since Henry II the Pious offended them. In 1243, Bolesław II the Horned took Kalisz. In 1244, Bolesław II the Horned’s sister, Elizabeth, married Władysław Odonic’s son, Przemysł I of Greater Poland.
Poles and Hungarians both were concerned about the rise of neighboring Bohemia under the Luxemburgs. This Polish-Hungarian alliance—as with so many in the medieval and later periods—was cemented by a marriage. In 1320, Łokietek’s daughter Elżbieta (Elizabeth) Connecting with the West 33
Poland (Polish: Polska [ˈpɔlska] ), officially the Republic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska, ), is a country in Central Europe, situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges (the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains) in the south.
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Jun 30, 2017 · On the 14th of August 1418 Valdemar of Helsingborg was crowned Waldemar I, King of Poland alongside his wife Elizabeth Bonifacia at The Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul in Poznan. Several Polish magnates despised these foreign interlopers and began to gather an army to fight on behalf of the Jagellion claimants.
The Knights of the Cross said that our castle was a menace to them; but the castles are repaired for defence not for an onset; and what prince has not the right to build and repair in his own land? Neither the weak nor the powerful can agree with the Order, because the knights despise the weak and try to ruin the mighty.
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Adalbert of Prague (Adalbertus / Wojciech Sławnikowic); 95623 April 997), known in Czech by his birth name Vojtěch (Voitecus), was a Bohemian missionary and Christian saint. He was the Bishop of Prague and a missionary to the Hungarians, Poles, and Prussians, who was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians to Christianity.
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