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Mieszko I of Poland Duke of Poland
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Mieszko I of Poland Duke of Poland 1
- Born: Bet 922 and 931, Poznan, Poland 2
- Marriage: Dubrawka of Bohemia on an unknown date
- Died: 992 1
 General Notes:
Mieszko I, Duke of Poland was a member of the House of Piast. He was also known as Mieczyslaw. He gained the title of Duke of Poland circa 960. [thePeerage.com]
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Piast prince or duke of Poland (from c. 963), who brought Poland into Christendom and expanded the state to the Baltic Sea.
Mieszko accepted Christianity directly from Rome in 966 in order to resist forced conversion by the Germans and the incorporation of Poland into the Holy Roman Empire--the fate of Bohemia. Mieszko expanded the Polish state southward into Galicia at the expense of Bohemia and northward to the Baltic Sea through the incorporation of Pomerania.
[source: Ketil Ken Nygaard's Genealogy, http://nygaard.howards.net/]
Mieszko married Dubrawka of Bohemia, daughter of Borislav I 'the Cruel' Duke of Bohemia, on an unknown date.
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Sources
1
Lundy, Darryl, "The Peerage.com - A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of England as well as the Royal Families of Europe" (http://www.thepeerage.com rev. 12 Mar 2006), Citing: John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 157.
2
Nygaard, Ken, "Ketil Ken Nygaard's Genealogy" (http://nygaard.howards.net/).
