God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
70 PIAST lying mainly within the Polish orbit, Silesia played an important part in the con- struction of the kingdom, and in the ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 71 opportunities where the peoples of Central Europe might have been joined together to face their stronger ...
72 PIAST sounded every hour from the tower of St. Mary's Church, commemorates the death of the city watchman who was pierced thr ...
Map 6. The Teutonic State, (1230-1561) ...
74 PIAST Hermann von Salza had persuaded Pope Gregory IX, to put Prussia under papal protection. At the same time he persuaded t ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 75 drove Waldemar from the city, and calmly slaughtered its inhabitants. Before the Poles could intervene, ...
76 PIAST As well in Christian as in heathen places, And ever honoured for his noble graces. He saw the town of Alexandria fall: ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 77 Wielkopolska (who was murdered by his would-be kidnappers at Ragazno in February 1296) and finally, for ...
78 PIAST accept arbitration over Silesia. In 1339, at the Treaty of Cracow, he formally conceded Bohemian suzerainty over the Si ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 79 ...
(^80) PIAST the Dominican, the Franciscan, and the fortified church of St. Andrew - must have looked woefully small. Here, in th ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 81 Poland, and by King Louis of Hungary, King Waldemar of Denmark, and Dukes Otto of Bavaria, Ziemowit of M ...
(^82) PIAST Apres fu le roy de Poulainne Qui tint Cracouve en sa domaine, Qu'il promist qu'il y aideroit, Toutes les fois que po ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 83 There was no question of a general crusade. Pierre de Lusignan returned to Venice and to Cyprus, to the ...
84 PIAST convents. At the end, King Louis walked between the Archbishop, Bishops, princes, and dignitaries, amongst a great crow ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 85 By that time, the name of Piast was little more than an ancient legend in Poland. It was used as a polit ...
4 ANJOU: The Hungarian Connection (1370-1386) The conduct of the great ruling dynasties of medieval Europe can only be prop- erl ...
THE HUNGARIAN CONNECTION 87 907, seven tribes under the warlord Arpad took possession of the plains between the Tisza (Theiss) a ...
(^88) ANJOU Following the crises caused by the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 1241 and the extinction of the Arpad dynasty in 13 ...
THE HUNGARIAN CONNECTION 89 Map 8. The Angevin Realm, (c. 1380) Louis applied the same remedy to the baronial opposition that he ...
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