Kto fundował XIII-wieczny zespół klasztorny dominikanów w Sandomierzu?
Who Founded the 13th-Century Dominican Monastery Complex in Sandomierz?

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a voice in the discussion on the founders of the Dominican monastic complex in Sandomierz. As a consequence of dating its 13th-century construction phases, the hypothesis popular in literature on the subject has been refuted, namely the claim that the alleged founder of the monastery Bishop Iwo Odrowąż brought a construction workshop responsible for raising the walls and executing a rich ceramic decoration. The involvement in the founding of the first stage of works has been attributed to Duchess Adelaide, daughter of Casimir the Just, buried in the Church of St James ‘in medio ecclesiae’, and venerated by the Sandomierz Dominicans as the ‘fundatrix istius conventus’. Furthermore, attention has been drawn to the fact that the date of the Duchess’s death provided in her tomb inscription has been to-date erroneously identified as 1211, while it should be read as 1240. It has also been suggested that the construction stage connected with the ceramic decoration of the nave body and the Monastery’s eastern wing should be associated with Bishop Prandota, while the raising of the belfry with Duke Leszek the Black.

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