Mieszko I, prince of Poland

Events

Date of Birth: about 935.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Jasiński.

Date of Death: 25 May 992.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Jasiński.

Place of Burial: Poznań, Poland.

The place is given by Jasiński.

Relationships

Father: Siemomysł.

This relationship is given by Balzer, by Ludat, by Żołądź-Strzelczyk, and by Jasiński.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

This relationship is given by Balzer, by Ludat, and by Jasiński.

Spouse: Dobrawa of Bohemia.

This relationship is given by Balzer, by Ludat, by Żołądź-Strzelczyk, and by Jasiński. Jasiński gives the date of marriage as probably 965.

Spouse: Oda, daughter of Dietrich, margrave of the Gau of Heveller.

This relationship is given by Balzer, by Ludat, by Raffensperger, by Żołądź-Strzelczyk, and by Jasiński.

Children (by Dobrawa):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Bolesław I Chobry (about 967 - 17 June 1025), king of Poland, married (1) a daughter of Ricdag, margrave; married (2) a Hungarian woman; married (3) Emnilda; married (4) Oda von Meissen.

Children (by Oda):

Mieszko

Lambert

Świętopełk

References

Balzer, Oswald. Genealogia Piastów (Krakow:1895).

Jasiński, Kazimierz. Rodowód pierwszych Piastów. (Uniwersytet Wrocławski: Warszawa – Wrocław, 1993).

Ludat, Herbert. Genealogical tables at the end of An Elbe und Oder: Skizzen zur Politik des Ottonenreiches und der slavischen Mächte in Mitteleuropa (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1971).

Raffensperger, Christian. Re-examining Rus’: The Place of Kievan Rus’ in Europe, ca. 800-1146. PhD thesis, Chicago: 2006. [Volume 3: Appendix. Russian Dynastic Marriages 988-1146]

Żołądź-Strzelczyk, D. Piasten I genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.