In Łęczyca, the First Sejm. - Enactment of Laws, Curbing Banditry. A.D. 1182
In Łęczyca, the First Sejm. - Enactment of Laws, Curbing Banditry. A.D. 1182
Sent for the approval of Alexander III, the laws collected and written down at the congress of Lęczyca, brought to Poland the relics of St Florian with the bishop of Modena, legate of Pope Lucius III.
The weary legate, having handed Casimir the Just the approved codex, rests listening to the words of the papal bull, read aloud by Bishop Gedeon.
The families, disavowing the power and abuses of the hated Mieczyslaw the Old, took up their positions closest to the throne.
The Sejm in Łęczyca broke with the principle of seniority established by Bolesław Wrymouth, according to which the Kraków throne belonged to the eldest of the Piast family. The deposed Mieszko III the Old was replaced by Casimir the Just. From then on, either one law or the other was invoked in disputes over the throne.
Task: Jan Matejko
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