A Romanesque watchtower guarded the merchant route up the Dunajec towards Hungary; the castle and its customs house, the castellany (by 1357) and the town law (1355) are later.
Listed by en.wikipedia among the Sandomierz castellanies, but Kraków's ground later; not pinned for 1200.
Who holds it
- Name
- Mieszko III (not pinned)
- Title
- Lord of the place
- Since
- See the realm record
- Confidence
- low
Lord in 1200
Mieszko III (not pinned)
How things stand that morning
Held for Mieszko III.
Charter
None: a watch post and crossing under the duke; town law comes in 1355.
Walls and castle
A Romanesque watchtower.
Trade and crafts
Toll point on the Dunajec route to Hungary (the customs house is later).
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.