Premislas II of Poland
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Premislas 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, Greater Poland, Kraków and Eastern Pomerania, and then King of Poland from 1295 until his death.
He was born to Premislas I, Duke of Greater Poland, and Elizabeth, daughter of Henry II of Silesia.
Before 1277, he became a duke of Poznań, and after the death of his uncle Boleslaus the Pious in 1279, he became the duke of whole of Greater Poland. According to the Treaty of Kępno (1282), he was co-ruler with Mestwin II, duke of Eastern Pomerania and in 1294 his successor in Gdańsk. In 1287 this alliance was extended to duke Boguslaw IV of Western Pomerania.
According to the last will of Henry IV Probus, duke of Silesia and high-duke of Poland, he inherited in 1290 the provinces of Kraków and Sandomierz (both were called Lesser Poland), but soon ceded them to Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia. As he was the strongest Polish duke of the time, possessed the royal insignia from Kraków, and had support of the clergy for the unification of Poland, he was crowned king of Poland in 1295 by the archbishop of Gniezno, Jakub Świnka, and five other bishops.
In 1296, he was kidnapped by men of the electors of Brandenburg, with some help from the Polish noble families of Nałęcz and Zaremba, and murdered on February 8 in Rogozno by Jakub Kaszuba. His kingship was short but the revived kingdom survived for the next 500 years.
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Further reading
- Nowacki, B. Przemysł II.
- Boras, Z. Poczet piastów wielkopolskich.
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