Konflikt księcia z możnymi czy zdrada podkanclerza? Jeszcze raz o liście świadków na dokumencie księcia Bolesława Wstydliwego dla biskupa...
A prince’s conflict with the mighty or a subchancellor’s treason? Again on a letter of witnesses on prince Bolesław Wstydliwy’s document from 1253...

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to examine the credibility of one of the documents whose authorship is ascribed to Bolesław Wstydliwy. Testing of the very document has become a reason to draw a theory on the conflict in the circles of a political elite of Małopolska in the 1250s. The staffing of offices in the letter of witnesses seemed inappropriate in almost all cases. Despite the fact that a diploma started to play a significant role at one time, its credibility was not commented on by the researchers yet testing was considered real without going into details. Only some historians treated the document as suspicious. The provenance of the conflict in question in theories of subsequent historians was extremely different: some researchers saw a reflection of rivalry between a castellan and a voivode of Kraków on the priority in hierarchy in a strange form of testing, for some others an extraordinary list of witnesses was to prove pluralism of Małopolska dwellers towards the so-called war on the legacy left after the Babenbergs. A detailed examination of disposition components and getting to know people present both in testing and the remaining part of the diploma closer, shed a totally different light on document credibility, and, hence, the image of internal politics of Małopolska in the mid 13th century.

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