Przemysł (Piast) Polski (1257 - 1296)

Born 14 Oct 1257 in Poznań, Kingdom of Poland

Ancestors

Husband of Luitgard (Mecklenburg) von Mecklenburg — married about 1273 in Szczecin

Descendants

Died 8 Feb 1296 at age 38 in Rogoźno, Kingdom of Poland

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Biography

Przemysł II (also given in English and Latin as Premyslas or Premislaus, Polish: Przemysł or less properly Przemysław) (14 October 1257 – 8 February 1296), was the Duke of Poznań from 1257[1]-1279, of Greater Poland from 1279-1296, of Kraków from 1290-1291,[2] and Gdańsk Pomerania (Pomerelia) from 1294-1296, and then King of Poland from 1295 until his death. After a long period of Polish High Dukes and two nominal kings, he was the first to obtain the hereditary title of King, and thus to return Poland to the rank of Kingdom.

The only son of Duke Przemysł I and the Silesian princess Elisabeth. Coronation as King of Poland on 26 June 1295 in Gniezno, performed by his ally Archbishop Jakub Świnka. Only nine months later, on 8 February 1296, Przemysł II was murdered during a failed kidnapping attempt.

Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemys%C5%82_II