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2 unusual facts about Jan Długosz


Jan Długosz

(After the 1945 conquest by Soviet Union and Poland Grünfelde was renamed Grunwald and Tannenberg was renamed Stębark.)

At some point in his life Dlugosz loosely translated Wigand of Marburg's Chronica nova Prutenica from Middle High German into Latin, however also with many mistakes and mixup of names and places.


Bolesław I, Duke of Cieszyn

In the chronicle of Jan Długosz he is named the eldest son, but this is certainly a mistake, because elsewhere, Przemysław of Oświęcim was always placed before Bolesław.

Grunwald Swords

According to Jan Długosz's chronicle, they bore the coats of arms of their respective masters: a black eagle in a golden field of King Sigismund of the Romans, and a red griffin in a silver field of Duke Casimir V of Pomerania.

Janusz Tarnowa

Jan Długosz maintains that he was from Grzymałów, but this remains un-established, as is the hypotheses he belonged to the Knights of Tarnawów's.


see also

Andrzej Tomaszewski

He expanded the conservation projects at the Collegiate church in Wiślica and the Jan Długosz House, also in Wiślica, the collegiate church in Opatów, and the 12th-century Romanesque church of St. John the Baptist in Prandocin, northeast of Kraków.