Boleslaw the Brave crowned King of Poland
1025
The Piast duke finally received royal consecration at Gniezno after years of diplomatic pressure on Rome. Weeks later he was dead. His son Mieszko II inherited both the crown and the wars with Germany, Bohemia, and Rus that would soon undo Polish unity for a generation. Boleslaw had transformed Poland from a tribal duchy into a recognized European kingdom in the span of a single ambitious lifetime.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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