According to legend, she went barefoot even in winter, and when she was urged by the Bishop of Wrocław to wear shoes, she carried them in her hands.

According to a new theory, Bishop Jordan, Bishop of Poland | Jordan was buried here, while Mieszko's grave location is probably the Chapel of the Virgin Mary at Ostrów Tumski, Poznań | Ostrów Tumski palace | palatium complex.

According to British diplomatic papers, Pius ' letter was addressed to Bishop Rubeira and confirms Urban's observation that the condemnation relates to new converts being enslaved.

According to prior agreement, they agreed to retain all the cardinals that had been created by Gregory XII, thus satisfying the Correr clan, and appointed Gregory XII Bishop of Frascati, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals and perpetual legate at Ancona.

According to Irenaeus, during the time his fellow Syrian, Anicetus, was Bishop of Rome, in the 150s or 160, Polycarp visited Rome to discuss the differences that existed between Asia and Rome " with regard to certain things " and especially about the time of the Easter festivals.

* January 20 – According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland.

According to the only contemporary source, Hypatia was murdered by a Christian mob after being accused of exacerbating a conflict between two prominent figures in Alexandria: the governor Orestes and the Bishop of Alexandria.

According the German chronicler Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg, the decades long forced Germanization and Christianization of the Slavs associated with these two churches was the reason for their destruction.

According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, the Abbey was first founded in the time of Mellitus ( d. 624 ), Bishop of London, on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey ( Thorn Island ); based on a late tradition that a fisherman called Aldrich on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter near the site.

According to Alfred the Great's biographer, Asser, during Æthelwulf's absence there may have been a plot hatched to prevent the king's return either by Æthelbald, or by Ealhstan, Bishop of Sherborne and Eanwulf, Ealdorman of Somerset, or by all three.

According to a charter dated 775, the former abbot of Selsey, Bishop Eadberht of Selsey ( c. 705 x? 709 )-( 716 x?

According to Gerald, the king said at the time: " It is neither necessary or expedient for king or archbishop that a man of great honesty or vigour should become Bishop of St. David's, for fear that the Crown and Canterbury should suffer thereby.

According to Brown, late in the 16th century the early historians George Buchanan and Bishop John Lesley from opposite ends of the religious spectrum both looked favourably on James's reign but were uneasily mindful of an enduring aggressive history regarding the king.

According to secular history, in 1555 Bishop Alonso de Montúfar commissioned a Virgin of Guadalupe from a native artist, who gave her the dark skin which his own people shared with the famous Extremadura Virgin.

According to Aldred ’ s colophon, the Lindisfarne Gospels were made in honour of God and Saint Cuthbert, a Bishop of the Lindisfarne monastery who was becoming “ Northern England ’ s most popular Saint ”.

According to the French political analyst, Philippe de Commines — the only person who identifies him — this priest was Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells.

According to the Anglican Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev Dr Tom Wright, the novel is a " great thriller " but " lousy history ".

According to an old Freiburg legend, a butcher named Hauri stabbed the Bishop of Strasbourg to death on July 29, 1299.

According to Joshua Coffin, the early settlers included " Captain John Pike, the ancestor of General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who was killed at the battle of Queenstown in 1813 ; Thomas Bloomfield, the ancestor of Joseph Bloomfield, some years governor of New Jersey, for whom the township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named ; John Bishop, senior and junior ; Jonathan Haynes ; Henry Jaques ; George March ; Stephen Kent ; Abraham Toppan, junior ; Elisha Ilsley ; Hugh March ; John Bloomfield ; Samuel Moore ; Nathaniel Webster ; John Ilsley ; and others.

According to the prefatory letters, the work was composed at the urging of his friend Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa, to whom Isidore, at the end of his life, sent his codex inemendatus (" unedited book "), which seems to have begun circulating before Braulio was able to revise it, and issue it, with a dedication to the late Visigothic King Sisebut.

According to the official biography of the Diocese of Terni, Bishop Valentine was born and lived in Interamna and was imprisoned and tortured in Rome on 14 February 273, while on a temporary stay there.

According to a late 13th century legend, Erik undertook the so-called First Swedish Crusade to Finland together with the equally legendary Bishop Henry of Uppsala, conquering the country and building many churches there.

According to Bishop Burnet he was cast out by the Presbyterians, but whether this be so or not, he soon made his way to England and became vicar of Godmersham, Kent, from which living he was expelled by the Act of Uniformity 1662.

" According to Bishop Gilbert Burnet, who praises his character and administration, Fell was " a little too much heated in the matter of our disputes with the dissenters ... He had much zeal for reforming abuses, and managed it perhaps with too much heat and in too peremptory a way ... But we have so little of that among us that no wonder if such men are censured by those who love not such patterns nor such severe task-masters.

* 1445 BC — According to James Ussher's chronology, this is when Moses led the Hebrews from Egypt, to the land of Israel.

According to Matthew Henry a Bible commentator who flourished in the 17th century, Ezekiel is also believed to have been known as Nazaratus Assyrius, a teacher to Pythagorus.

According to Pickover, the mathematics behind fractals began to take shape in the 17th century when the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz pondered recursive self-similarity ( although he made the mistake of thinking that only the straight line was self-similar in this sense ).

According to Thomas Edge, an early 17th century whaling captain who was often inaccurate, " William Hudson " discovered the island in 1608 and named it " Hudson's Touches " ( or " Tutches ").

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

According to the Wubei Huolongjing volume of the 17th century, the formula for this slow-burning incandescent material allowed it to burn continuously for 20 to 30 days without going out.

According to Geoffrey Keating's 17th century History of Ireland, Ériu, Banba, and Fódla worshipped Badb, Macha, and the Morrígan respectively.

According to a 17th century chronicler, Ibrahim had asked Suleiman not to promote him to such high positions, fearing for his safety ; to which Suleiman replied that under his reign no matter what the circumstance, Ibrahim would never be put to death.

According to a 17th century myth the population at the viking settlement Birka decided to found a new settlement, and to determine its location had a log bound with gold drifting in Lake Mälaren.

According to Alan V. Oppenheim and Ronald W. Schafer, the principles of signal processing can be found in the classical numerical analysis techniques of the 17th century.

According to the Ease of Doing Business ranking 2012, Thailand ranks 17th in the world and 2nd in Southeast Asia-after Singapore.

* According to Abrahamic religious tradition, the era of the Patriarch Abraham ( however, other datings include 19th century BC, and / or 17th century through 15th century BC )

According to Frayling's biography of Leone, Something to Do with Death, he envisioned a contemporary adaptation of Cervantes ' 17th century novel Don Quixote with Clint Eastwood in the title role and Eli Wallach as Sancho Panza.

According to Iroquoian scholar Bruce Trigger, " Niagara " is derived from the name given to a branch of the locally residing native Neutral Confederacy, who are described as being called the " Niagagarega " people on several late 17th century French maps of the area.

According to 17th century documents, a young Spanish man's leg was miraculously restored to him in 1640 after having been amputated two and a half years earlier.

According to tribal tradition, during the 17th century the Cheyenne had been driven by the Ho hé ( Assiniboine ) from the Great Lakes region to present-day Minnesota and North Dakota, where they established villages.

According to Fon tradition, the asen originated in Allada and were brought to Abomey before the 17th century.

According to the fourth century Italian writer Maurus Servius Honoratus, and the French 17th century writer François Fénelon, the story continues as follows: after the war, Idomeneus's ship hit a terrible storm.

According to missionary reports, several thousand Hurons occupied present-day West Virginia, including the Eastern Panhandle region, during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

According to the Massachusetts FCCC, Leverett was first settled in the 17th century when pioneers developed the Swampfield Plantation.

According to the Wall Street Journal the trust has been carefully managed with most of its income coming from forestry holdings, which the Fugger family favored since the 17th century after losing money on higher yielding investments.

According to the Codes of Bishopy of Philippoupolis and the Czech historian and slavist Konstantin Josef Jireček in the middle of 17th century, the Pomak provosts agreed to become Muslim en masse.

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, " They were introduced in England as lounging attire in the 17th century but soon went out of fashion.

According to the Figurists ( a group of Jesuit missionaries mainly led by Joachim Bouvet into China at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century and based on ideas of Matteo Ricci 1552 to 1610 ), Fu Xi in China's ancient history is actually Enoch.

According to research by Dembe and Boden, the term dates back to the 17th century and was widely used by English insurance companies by the late 19th century.

According to John Aubrey, cribbage was created by the English poet Sir John Suckling in the early 17th century, as a derivation of the game " noddy ".