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* 966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
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For more information about the history of Poland under the Piasts, see History of Poland ( 966 – 1385 ).
From 964 – 966 he led an army of 40, 000 men which conquered Cilicia and again overran Mesopotamia and Syria, while the patrician Niketas Chalkoutzes recovered Cyprus.
But a third contemporary source, the annalist Flodoard ( c. 894 – 966 ), says John XI was brother of Alberic II, the latter being the offspring of Marozia and her husband Alberic I.
966 and After
After her husband had died in 936, Matilda and her son Otto established Quedlinburg Abbey in his memory, a convent of noble canonesses, where in 966 her granddaughter Matilda became the first abbess.
966 and marriage
According to earlier sources, Dobrawa urged her husband Mieszko I of Poland to accept baptism in 966, the year after their marriage.
Mieszko I's marriage in 965 to the Czech Přemyslid princess Dobrawa and his baptism in 966 put him and his country in the cultural sphere of Western Christianity.
Still, in most of Northwestern Europe, marriage at very early ages was rare ; one thousand marriage certificates from 1619 to 1660 in the Archdiocese of Canterbury show that only one bride was 13 years of age, four were 15, twelve were 16, and seventeen were 17 years of age while the other 966 brides were at least 19 years of age at marriage.
Noblewomen and gentlewomen married early, but they were a small minority ; a thousand marriage certificates issued by the archdiocese of Canterbury between 1619 and 1660 show that only one bride was aged thirteen years, four were fifteen, twelve were sixteen, seventeen were seventeen, and the other 966 of the brides were aged nineteen years or older when they married for the first time.
966 and Christian
Mieszko I, then a pagan, would married Boleslaus I's Christian daughter Dobrawa in 965, and would convert to Christianity in 966, bringing Poland closer to the Christian states of Bohemia and the Empire.
966 and ruler
The place is regarded as a possible site of the Baptism of Poland, where the first historical ruler of Poland Mieszko I accepted Christianity in 966.
Written language came to Poland only after 966 AD, when the ruler of the Polish lands converted to Christianity and educated foreign clerics arrived.
966 and Polans
One theory is that Dyngus originates from the baptism on Easter Monday of Mieszko I ( Duke of the Polans, c. 935 – 992 ) in 966 AD, uniting all of Poland under the banner of Christianity.
966 and Mieszko
Mieszko and his people were described around 966 by Abraham ben Jacob, a Sephardi Jewish traveller, who at that time visited the Prague court of Duke Boleslav I the Cruel.
The ceremony by which Mieszko converted to Christianity in 966, known as the Baptism of Poland, is likely to have taken place at Poznań.
He arrived in Poland, probably from Italy or the Rhineland, in 966 with Dubrawka to baptise Mieszko I of Poland.
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