Bogufał II also known as Boguchwał II was a thirteenth century

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in Poland. The date of his birth is unknown, but according to the

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Jan Długosz Jan Długosz (; 1 December 1415 – 19 May 1480), also known in Latin as Johannes Longinus, was a Polish priest, chronicler, diplomat, soldier, and secretary to Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Kraków. He is considered Poland's first histor ...

, he was a member of the Poraj Polish noble family. He was a curator at

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in 1231 and in 1242 was made the

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. He was possibly consecrated bishop on 8 October 1242. 6 Poznan 137

His tenure saw the construction in 1262 of a new

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in the

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, and in 1253 new hospitals and churches. He brought the Dominicans to the church of St. Wojciecha, Adalbert and also Saint Marcina in 1246. He also received

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rights,

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rights and immunities under the

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and in 1248 he took part in a

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. He was considered to be a scholar obtaining a

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and his large library, consisted primarily of collections of

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, was bequeathed after his death to the library of the

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. He is also considered to be the initiator of the Yearbook of Poznań

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and the patron of Baska curator, who wrote '' The Chronicle of Greater Poland''. In a note from 1249, written in the first person, Bogufał noted for the memory of posterity his prophetic dream, in which a monk supposedly predicted to him the "fulfillment" of Poland's fate in the next 25 years. The text was first entered into the Yearbook of the Poznań chapter, and then transcribed into the Chronicle of Greater Poland, where it is preserved in slightly different, two editions. He died on 9 February 1253 in Solec, Wielkopolski.

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