''Chronicon Polono-Silesiacum'' ( pl, Kronika polsko-śląska, ''Polish-Silesian Chronicle'') or simply ''Chronicon Polonorum''Mrozowicz, Wojciech, “Chronica Polonorum”, in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Edited by:

Graeme Dunphy Graeme Dunphy (born 1961) is a British professor of translation. Biography Dunphy was born in Glasgow in 1961. He studied German at the University of Stirling between 1979 and 1984, and Hebrew and the Old Testament at the University of St A ...

, Cristian Bratu. Consulted online on 02 December 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2213-2139_emc_SIM_000154 is a medieval Polish chronicle based on

Wincenty Kadłubek Wincenty Kadłubek ( 1150 – 8 March 1223) was a Polish Catholic prelate and professed Cistercian who served as the Bishop of Kraków from 1208 until his resignation in 1218. His episcopal mission was to reform the diocesan priests to ensure ...

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Chronica seu originale regum et principum Poloniae 200px, ''Historia Polonica'', Vincenti Kadłubkonis Episcopi Cracoviensis, 1612 ''Chronica seu originale regum et principum Poloniae'', short name ''Chronica Polonorum'', is a Latin history of Poland written by Wincenty Kadłubek between 1190 an ...

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Carmen Mauri Carmen Mauri (song of a Maur) is an anonymous Polish Middle Ages, medieval poem written in Latin. It tells the story of Polish Magnates in Poland and Lithuania, magnate Piotr Włast and his rebellion against Prince Władysław Wygnaniec. The poem ha ...

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history of Silesia In the second half of the 2nd millennium B.C. (late Bronze Age), Silesia belonged to the Lusatian culture. About 500 BC Scyths arrived, and later Celts in the South and Southwest. During the 1st century BC Silingi and other Germanic people set ...

. The date of its creation is uncertain and estimated at late 13th century, ''circa'' 1280 or at the turn of the century. The unknown author might have been a

Cistercian The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...

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Lubiąż Abbey Lubiąż Abbey (german: Kloster Leubus; pl, Opactwo cystersów w Lubiążu) is a former Cistercian monastery in Lubiąż, in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship of southwestern Poland, located about northwest of Wrocław.The monastery is considere ...

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Henry IV of Silesia Henryk IV Probus (Latin for ''the Righteous'') ( pl, Henryk IV Probus or ''Prawy''; german: Heinrich IV. der Gerechte) ( – 23 June 1290) was a member of the Silesian branch of the royal Polish Piast dynasty. He was Duke of Silesia at Wro ...

. Its text edited as ''Chronicon Polonorum''/''Kronika Polska'' by Ludwik Ćwikliński was published 1878 in ''Monumenta Poloniae Historica'', vol. 3.

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