Mieszko I Piast Prince of Poland

✓ Mieszko I, Prince (dux) of the Polans, the first historically attested ruler of Poland (Widukind of Corvey's 'Misaca', Thietmar's 'Miseco'); baptised 966 after his marriage to Dobrawa of Bohemia; submitted to Otto I 963/72; d. 25 May 992. Father of Bolesław I 'Chrobry' (first crowned King of Poland, 1025) and - by an unidentified wife - of the daughter who married Erik of Sweden and Svend of Denmark (Thietmar: 'Miseconis filia ducis, soror Bolizlavi'). TOP - DELIBERATE STOP: his father Siemomysł and the earlier Piasts (Lestek, Siemowit, Piast the wheelwright) are known only from Gallus Anonymus (c.1115) and are not entered. Source: Medieval Lands (fmg.ac, Cawley), 'Poland: Mieszko I (fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/POLAND.htm)'; Source: Medieval Lands (fmg.ac, Cawley), 'Sweden Kings: Erik 'Segersäll' (fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SWEDEN.htm), read 27 Oct 2026'. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 27 Oct 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.] ||27 Oct 2026 - FATHER WIRED (~)|| Decision with the compiler: the three chronicle-tradition Piasts above him (Siemomysl, Lestek, Siemowit) are entered at ~ on the same footing as the annal-only rungs of the Irish and Norse lines, since historians accept them as probably historical; the stop is at Siemowit, where the legend begins. Source: Medieval Lands, 'Poland' ch.1 A (fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/POLAND.htm), quoting Gallus Anonymus (Chronicae Polanorum, c.1115), the Annales Polanorum and the Chronica principum Polonie; read 27 Oct 2026.