An old stronghold on the Ropa, named by Thietmar of Merseburg about 1012-1018 and a castellany by the 12th century, at the crossing of the routes from Kraków to Rus' and from the Vistula to Hungary over the Low Beskids.
In 1184 Casimir II gave the tithes of its land to St Florian's at Kraków, which ties it to the Kraków land; castellans are named in 1243 and 1257.
Who holds it
- Name
- Mieszko III's castellan (not named)
- Title
- Lord of the place
- Since
- See the realm record
- Confidence
- medium
Lord in 1200
Mieszko III's castellan (not named)
How things stand that morning
Held for Mieszko III.
Charter
None. No town law and no charter in 1200: this is a ducal castle (gród) with a market settlement (suburbium) under the duke's law and the castellan's court.
Walls and castle
A stronghold of timber and earth (gród).
Trade and crafts
Crossroads of the routes between Red Ruthenia and Hungary.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Minor place; dated details as given in the summary.
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
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.