Mieszko I of Poland ^{1 2 3}

   Other names for Mieszko were Mieczislaw I of Poland and Burislaf of Wendland.

  General Notes:

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.

Brian Tompsett shows him born ca 922 and also married to Thyra Haraldsdatter.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded: Duke of Poland, 963.

Mieszko married Dobrawka of Bohemia, daughter of Boleslav I the Cruel of Bohemia and Bozena, in 965. (Dobrawka of Bohemia was born circa 925-931 and died in 977.)