Mieszko Mieszkowic
Mieszko Mieszkowic (979/984 – aft. 992/95), was a Polish prince, and a member of the
He was the second son of
Life
Little is known about his first years of life. Mieszko's first appearance is in the document "
In the end, Bolesław I took control over all the territories of his father and expelled his stepmother and half-brothers from Poland to Germany. Mieszko's further fate is unknown, but in 1032 a certain Dytryk (son of either Mieszko or his brother Lambert) returned to Poland and took control over part of the country after the fall of Mieszko II Lambert. Dytryk's reign was short-lived: in 1033, he was deposed and expelled by Mieszko II, who reunited all Poland.
References
- Thietmari chronicon (edited by Marian Zygmunt Jedlicki), Poznań 1953, p. 224.
- Kürbisówna B., Dagome iudex - studium krytyczne, [w:] Początki Państwa Polskiego, vol. I, Poznań 1962, p. 396.
- O. Balzer, Genealogia Piastów, Kraków 1895.
- K. Jasiński, Rodowód pierwszych Piastów, Wrocław-Warsaw 1992, pp. 100-101.
- J. Widajewicz, Początki Polski, Wrocław 1948.