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Persoonlijke gegevens King Mieszko I of Poland 

• Hij is geboren rond 922 in Poznan, Poland.
• Nationaliteit: Poland.
• Hij is overleden op 25 mei 992 in Poland. Hij was ongeveer 69-70 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Siemomysł of Poland en Unknown

Gezin van King Mieszko I of Poland

Hij is getrouwd met Doubravka of Bohemia.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 942.

Kind(eren):

1. Boleslav I of Poland  ± 945-1025 
2. Sigrid the Haughty   

Notities over King Mieszko I of Poland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieszko_I_of_Poland

 

Mieszko I ( Polish (help·info); ca. 930 – 25 May 992)^[1] was the ruler of the Polans^[2] from about 960 until his death. A member of the Piast dynasty, he was a son of Siemomysł, and a grandchild of Lestek. He was the father of Bolesław I the Brave (the first crowned king of Poland) and Gunhild of Wenden with his wife Oda.^[3] Most sources make Mieszko I the father of Sigrid the Haughty, a Nordic Queen, though one source identifies her father as Skoglar Toste, and the grandfather of Cnut the Great (Gundhild's son), and the great-grandfather of Gunhilda of Denmark, Canute the Great's daughter and wife of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor.

The first Christian ruler of Poland, Mieszko I is considered the de facto creator of the Polish state. He continued the policy of both his father and grandfather, who were rulers of the pagan tribes located in the area of present-day Greater Poland. Through both alliances and the use of military force, Mieszko extended ongoing Polish conquests and early in his reign subjugated Kuyavia and probably Gdańsk Pomerania and Masovia. For most of his reign, Mieszko I was involved in warfare for the control of Western Pomerania, eventually conquering it up to the vicinity of the lower Oder river. During the last years of his life, he fought the Bohemian state, winning Silesia and probably Lesser Poland.

Mieszko I's marriage in 965 to the Czech Přemyslid princess Dobrawa and his baptism in 966 put him and his country in the cultural sphere of Western Christianity. Apart from the great conquests accomplished during his reign (which proved to be fundamental for the future of Poland) Mieszko I was renowned for his internal reforms, aimed at expanding and improving the so-called war monarchy system.

According to existing sources, Mieszko I was a wise politician, a talented military leader, and a charismatic ruler. He successfully used diplomacy, concluding alliances, first with Bohemia, then Sweden, and the Holy Roman Empire. In foreign policy, he placed the interests of his country foremost, even entering into agreements with his former enemies. On his death, he left to his sons a country with greatly expanded territories, and a well-established position in Europe.

Mieszko I also enigmatically appeared as "Dagome" in a papal document dating to about 1085, called Dagome iudex, which mentions a gift or dedication of Mieszko's land to the Pope (the act took place almost a hundred years earlier).

It is roughly his borders that Poland was returned to in 1945.

 

According to Gallus Anonymus, before becoming a Roman Catholic Mieszko had seven pagan wives, whom he was required to relinquish, leaving Dobrawa as his only spouse. Nothing is known of the fates of any possible children from these relationships.^[72] In 965, before his baptism, Mieszko married Dobrawa (b. 940/45 – d. 977), daughter of Boleslav I the Cruel, Duke of Bohemia. They had two children:

1. Bolesław I the Brave (Chrobry) (b. 967 – d. 17 June 1025).
2. Świętosława (Sigrid) (b. 968/72 – d. ca. 1016), married first to Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden and later to Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark. From her second marriage, she probably was the mother of Cnut the Great, King of Denmark, Norway and England. Some researchers,^[3] comparing Scandinavian, Polish and German sources state it was Gunhild who was the daughter of Mieszko I and Oda (not Dobrawa) and who became wife of Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark, England, and parts of Norway, mother of Cnut the Great, king of Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden (the Anglo-Scandinavian or North Sea Empire), as well as Harald and Świętosława. She was also the grandmother of Gunhild, the wife of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor.

According to one hypothesis there was another daughter of Mieszko, married to a Pomeranian Slavic Prince; she could be a daughter of Dobrawa or of one of the previous pagan wives.^[73] Also, a theory exists (apparently based on Thietmar and supported by Oswald Balzer in 1895) that Vladivoj, who ruled as Duke of Bohemia in 1002–1003, was a son of Mieszko and Dobrawa.^[74] Although most modern historians reject this claim, Bohemian historiography supported the Piast parentage of Vladivoj.^[75]

In 978/79, Mieszko married Oda of Haldensleben (b. 955/60 – d. 1023), daughter of Dietrich of Haldensleben, Margrave of the Northern March. She was abducted by her future husband from the monastery of Kalbe. They had three sons:

1. Mieszko (b. ca. 979 – d. aft. 992/95).
2. Świętopełk (b. ca. 980 – d. bef. 991?).
3. Lambert (b. ca. 981 – d. aft. 992/95).

After a struggle for power between Bolesław I and Oda with her minor sons (Bolesław's half-brothers), the eldest son of Mieszko I took control over all of his father's state and expelled his stepmother and her sons from Poland.

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