Łęczyca land

Who he is

Name

castellan not named for 1199-1200; the land is the senior duke's: Mieszko III the Old, back in Kraków on the Kraków lords' terms by the reckoning followed in Kraków (Mieszko III) (or Casimir's sons' party if the Kraków lords' expulsion of 1199 still stands)

Title

castellan (kasztelan) of Łęczyca, for the holder of the senior province

Since

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Born

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Family

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Confidence

low

Wikipedia (en): Duchy of Łęczyca; Wikipedia (de): Łęczyca; Wikipedia (en): Łęczyca; Wikipedia (de): Konrad I. von Masowien; Wikipedia (pl): Konrad I mazowiecki

Overlord

the holder of the senior province of Kraków

What it holds

• The castle of Łęczyca at Tum
• The villages of the Łęczyca land
• The Bzura and Ner crossings on the roads from Kuyavia and Masovia to Sieradz and Kraków

How it was acquired

An office held at the duke's pleasure; the castellan keeps the castle, leads its levy, judges and collects the dues of the district.

Allies and rivals

The palatine and the other castellans; the great families of the district.

How things stand that morning

Held for the senior duke at Kraków. The krakow record (Kraków (Mieszko III)) has Mieszko III back in Kraków on the Kraków lords' terms that morning, so the Łęczyca land is his, held through a castellan not named for 1200; if the campaign rules that the Kraków lords' expulsion of 1199 still stands, it is held for Leszek's party instead.

Wealth

The district's dues in kind and services, the market and toll at the castle, and the duke's share of court fines.

Military

The castle levy of the district under the castellan; no numbers known.

Threats

• The war for Kraków: the land lies between Mieszko III's Greater Poland and Kuyavia and Masovia

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1202 (after this year)de.wikipedia has Konrad take Łęczyca (with Kuyavia and Sieradz) after Mieszko III's death on 13 March 1202.Depends on: Mieszko's death and a division among Casimir's sons Stopped by: Władysław Spindleshanks holding the senior province

Places of note

• Tum: castle and collegiate church of Łęczyca: Ducal castle and the Romanesque collegiate church (1161)
• Uniejów: Archbishop of Gniezno's castle on the Warta (Church map record)

Where the sources disagree

• de.wikipedia (Konrad I. von Masowien) makes Konrad duke in Kuyavia, Sieradz and Łęczyca from 1202; pl.wikipedia (Konrad I mazowiecki) gives Łęczyca with Sieradz to Konrad only in 1231; en.wikipedia (Łęczyca) lists Henry the Bearded as its holder 1228-1232 and Konrad from 1232/1234; en.wikipedia (Duchy of Łęczyca) says it was part of the Seniorate Province until Konrad created the duchy about 1231. This record follows the last, so on 1 January 1200 the land goes with Kraków (realm krakow). The GM may prefer to give it to Casimir's sons (realm masovia) if he rules that the 1198 bargain gave Mieszko only the Kraków land itself.

Evidence: The Łęczyca land's place in the senior province rests on en.wikipedia (Duchy of Łęczyca); other pages disagree (see notes). No officer of 1200 is named.

On the map: The line with Masovia (Sochaczew, Rawa, Gostynin), Kuyavia (Przedecz, Chodecz) and Greater Poland (Koło) follows the later Łęczyca voivodeship; the southern line with the Sieradz land (wlk or mlp) is drawn short of Piotrków and Wolbórz.

Primary sources for Kraków (Mieszko III)

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Chronicle of the Poles, by Master Vincent (Wincenty Kadłubek), Wincenty Kadłubek (about 1190 to 1208). Book 4 is a contemporary's account of the fight for the senior throne of Kraków. Read online
• The annals of the Kraków chapter and the other Polish annals (kept from the 11th century; the Kraków chapter annals continued to 1266). Short dated entries that fix the chronology Kadłubek blurs: the deaths of dukes and bishops, Mieszko the Old's captures of Kraków, Prussian raids on Masovia, church consecrations. Read online
• The Hypatian Chronicle (the Kievan Chronicle compiled about 1200 at the Vydubichi monastery; the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle in the 13th century). The southern record. Read online
• The Book of Census of the Roman Church, Cencius Camerarius (Cencio Savelli, later Pope Honorius III) (1192, with later additions). The papal rent roll: every church, monastery, town and kingdom that owed a census to Rome in 1192, diocese by diocese, with the sums, followed by lists of papal lands and castles, the ceremonial Ordo and copies of charters. Read online
• The Registers of Pope Innocent III for 1199 to 1201, Innocent III and the papal chancery (22 February 1199 to 21 February 1201). The pope's outgoing letters for the year, in his chancery's own copy, touching nearly every realm in the atlas. Read online