Post by Bonobo on Jan 30, 2019 21:58:57 GMT 1
Another part of the series: we have already discussed what Poles owe to Germans.
polandsite.proboards.com/thread/2748/poles-owe-germans
Christianity come to Poland through Czechia in 10 century AD. The Polish prince Mieszko married the Czech king`s daughter called Dobrava and thus adopted christianity from Czechs who had done it earlier.
I read a Polish article about their marriage. Dobrawa made her husband adopt christianity because she was horrified by pagan customs cultivated by Mieszko and his companions, especially newlyweds` public sex on the wedding night and the display of blood-stained sheet as a proof of virginity.
ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl/2015/11/09/noc-poslubna-dobrawy-dlaczego-ksiezna-nie-zgodzila-sie-na-seks-z-mieszkiem/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity_in_Poland
Mieszko I—who was Siemowit's great-grandson, according to Gallus Anonymus—was the first Polish ruler known from contemporaneous sources.[9] In an attempt to enter into an alliance with Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, he decided to marry the Duke's Christian daughter, Dobrava in 964 or 965.[10][11][12] According to the nearly contemporaneous Thietmar of Merseburg, Dobrava persuaded her husband to convert Christianity one or three years later.[13] His conversion, known as the baptism of Poland, was a milestone even in the Polish history.
Dobrawa (Dąbrówka) (Czech: Doubravka, Polish: Dobrawa) (ca. 940/45 – 977) was a Bohemian princess of the Přemyslid dynasty and by marriage Duchess of the Polans. She was the daughter of Boleslav I the Cruel, Duke of Bohemia, whose wife may have been the mysterious Biagota.[1][2]According to earlier sources, Dobrawa urged her husband Mieszko I of Poland to accept baptism in 966, the year after their marriage. Modern historians believe, however, that the change of religion by Mieszko was one of the points discussed in the Polish-Bohemian agreement concluded soon before his marriage with Dobrawa. Her role in his conversion is not considered now to be as important as it is often represented in medieval chronicles.
polandsite.proboards.com/thread/2748/poles-owe-germans
Christianity come to Poland through Czechia in 10 century AD. The Polish prince Mieszko married the Czech king`s daughter called Dobrava and thus adopted christianity from Czechs who had done it earlier.
I read a Polish article about their marriage. Dobrawa made her husband adopt christianity because she was horrified by pagan customs cultivated by Mieszko and his companions, especially newlyweds` public sex on the wedding night and the display of blood-stained sheet as a proof of virginity.
ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl/2015/11/09/noc-poslubna-dobrawy-dlaczego-ksiezna-nie-zgodzila-sie-na-seks-z-mieszkiem/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity_in_Poland
Mieszko I—who was Siemowit's great-grandson, according to Gallus Anonymus—was the first Polish ruler known from contemporaneous sources.[9] In an attempt to enter into an alliance with Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, he decided to marry the Duke's Christian daughter, Dobrava in 964 or 965.[10][11][12] According to the nearly contemporaneous Thietmar of Merseburg, Dobrava persuaded her husband to convert Christianity one or three years later.[13] His conversion, known as the baptism of Poland, was a milestone even in the Polish history.
Dobrawa (Dąbrówka) (Czech: Doubravka, Polish: Dobrawa) (ca. 940/45 – 977) was a Bohemian princess of the Přemyslid dynasty and by marriage Duchess of the Polans. She was the daughter of Boleslav I the Cruel, Duke of Bohemia, whose wife may have been the mysterious Biagota.[1][2]According to earlier sources, Dobrawa urged her husband Mieszko I of Poland to accept baptism in 966, the year after their marriage. Modern historians believe, however, that the change of religion by Mieszko was one of the points discussed in the Polish-Bohemian agreement concluded soon before his marriage with Dobrawa. Her role in his conversion is not considered now to be as important as it is often represented in medieval chronicles.