Pełka or Fulko (died April 5, 1258, in Łęczyca) was the
Archbishop of Gniezno
This is a list of archbishops of the Archdiocese of Gniezno, who are simultaneously primates of Poland since 1418.Lesser Poland. The 14th-century historian Jan Długosz claimed that he was from the knightly Lis family. Shortly after his birth his father joined the priesthood, which led to rumors about his illegitimate birth. But a commission appointed by Pope Honorius III dismissed these claims.
The date of Pełka' consecration as
Archbishop of Gniezno
This is a list of archbishops of the Archdiocese of Gniezno, who are simultaneously primates of Poland since 1418.Henryk Kietlicz and supported a centralised monarchy rather than the fragmented state.Sebastian Piotr Bartos, Negotiations of Power in a Medieval Society: Ecclesiastical Authority and Secular Rulership in Little Poland, 1177--1320, ProQuest, 2008 page 42 He continued the role of arbitrator between the Piast claimants to the throne. In 1234, he was an arbitrator in a dispute betweenHenry the Bearded and Wladyslaw Odonic of Wielkopolskie.
Pełka, like his predecessor Henryk Kietlicz, was also a defender of Church rights.Pelka lub Fulko Archdiocese of Gniezno He supported Thomas I,
Bishop of Wrocław
Bishops of the (Breslau )Wrocław Bishopric, Prince-Bishopric (1290–1918), and Archdiocese (since 1930; see Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wrocław for details).
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, in his dispute with Henry the Bearded.
He was involved in church politics. In 1238, Pope Gregory IX allowed the wearing of ''the cross metropolitan'' and he probably participated in the 1245 deliberations of the Council of Lyon and in 1253 he consecrated the first bishop of
Lithuania
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