 The tower where, according to legend, Popiel perished Prince Popiel (or Duke Popiel), legendary 9th century ruler of the Polanie or Goplanie tribe. For now there is no archeological evidence of the existence of any such person. According to legend, he was the last member of pre-Piast dynasty, Popielids. According to the chroniclers Gallus Anonymus, Jan Długosz and Marcin Kromer, as a consequence of bad rule he was removed from the throne and died eaten alive by mice (or rats) in a tower in the Kruszwica settlement. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 923 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Kruszwica - Mysia wieża Autor - Bartek Wawraszko File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other...
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Polans (also Polanes, Polish Polanie) were a Slavic tribe inhabitating the shores of the Warta river in the 8th century. ...
Goplans or Goplanie was a hypotetic pre-polish tribe that is said to have lived around Lake Gopło with its capital in Kruszwica, between 7th and 9th century. ...
This article is about a Polish dynasty. ...
Popielids (Polish: ) was a legendary[1] ruling dynasty of either the Polans, Goplans or both tribes. ...
Gallus Anonymus (Polish: Gall Anonim) living in 11th and 12th century was the first Polish historian, author of Cronicae et gesta ducum sive principum Polonorum (c. ...
Jan Długosz Jan Długosz, also known as Joannes Longinus or Joannes Dlugossius (1415-1480) was a Polish historian (a chronicler) and a secretary of Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. ...
Portrait Marcin Kromer (1512-1589) was a 16th century bishop of Warmia, cartographer, diplomat, and historian in Poland and later in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. ...
Coat of Arms Kruszwica (German: Kruschwitz) is a town in central Poland and is situated in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Bydgoszcz Voivodeship (1975-1998). ...
As the legend goes, Prince Popiel was an inadequate ruler who cared only for wine, women, and song and who was greatly influenced by his wife Ryska, a beautiful German princess who desired power. Because he was a poor ruler, his twelve uncles tried to remove him from the throne, but at his wife's instigation he had them poisoned at a banquet. Instead of burning the bodies as was the custom, he had them cast into Lake Gopło. GopÅ‚o Lake, view from the Mouse Tower of Kruszwica GopÅ‚o is a lake in Poland near the city of Gniezno in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship. ...
When the people of the tribe saw what Popiel and Ryska had done, they turned against them, and the prince and princess took refuge in a tower near the lake. As the story goes, a multitude of mice and rats which had been feeding on the unburnt bodies of Popiel's uncles attacked the tower, chewed through the walls, and ate Popiel and Ryska. A ruined tower that still stands at the lake is called "mouse tower" after this legend. (But the tower is not old enough to be the tower in the story.)
Prince Popiel was succeeded by Piast Kolodziej and Siemowit. Piast Kołodziej (Kołodziej means wheelwright) is a legendary figure from the prehistory of Poland (8th or 9th century AD), founder of the Piast dynasty that would rule the early Kingdom of Poland. ...
Siemowit (also Ziemowit) was, according to the chronicles of Gallus Anonymus, the son of Piast and Rzepicha. ...
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