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. For 1200 and the years either side they give the changes of hands at Kraków and the deaths that ended the senior line's disputes (Mieszko in 1202). Dry, but the firmest Polish dates.
About this source
- Title
- Rocznik kapituły krakowskiej (Annales Cracovienses) and the other Polish annals
- Author
- Anonymous
- Author's dates
- canons of Kraków and monks of other Polish houses
- Written
- kept from the 11th century; the Kraków chapter annals continued to 1266
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- to the 13th century
- Kind
- Annals
The MGH prints the annals in the 19th-century state of knowledge; the 1978 edition is standard but not free. The Polish charter collections (Codex diplomaticus Maioris Poloniae, Kodeks dyplomatyczny Małopolski) were not located in verified copies.
Where to read it
Editions
- R. Röpell and W. Arndt (eds), Annales Poloniae, MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum 11 (Hanover 1866)
- R. Röpell and W. Arndt (eds), Annales Polonorum, MGH Scriptores 19 (Hanover 1866), pp. 571 to 694
- Z. Kozłowska-Budkowa (ed.), Najdawniejsze roczniki krakowskie i kalendarz, Monumenta Poloniae Historica, nova series 5 (Warsaw 1978); not free (not freely online)