Sobieslaw I ( pl, Sobiesław I Gdański, csb, Subisłôw I) (d. 1177/79) or Subislaw I was the first recorded member of the
Samborides
The Samborides () or House of Sobiesław () were a ruling dynasty in the historic region of Pomerelia. They were first documented about 1155 as governors (''princeps'') in the Eastern Pomeranian lands serving the royal Piast dynasty of Poland ...
(''Sobiesławice'') dynasty ruling
Pomerelia (''
Gdańsk Pomerania
Gdańsk Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze Gdańskie), csb, Gduńsczim Pòmòrzã, german: Danziger Pommern) is a geographical region within Pomerelia in northern and northwestern Poland, covering the bulk of Pomeranian Voivodeship.
It forms a part and ...
'').
His ancestry has not been conclusively established, an affiliation with the Pomerelian duke
Swietopelk I (1109–1113), the Polish
Piast dynasty
The House of Piast was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. The first documented Polish monarch was Duke Mieszko I (c. 930–992). The Piasts' royal rule in Poland ended in 1370 with the death of king Casimir III the Great.
Branch ...
or the Pomeranian
Griffins is uncertain. His ancestors probably had been appointed governors in
Pomerelia after its conquest by the Polish duke
Bolesław III Wrymouth
Bolesław III Wrymouth ( pl, Bolesław III Krzywousty; 20 August 1086 – 28 October 1138), also known as Boleslaus the Wry-mouthed, was the duke of Lesser Poland, Silesia and Sandomierz between 1102 and 1107 and over the whole of Poland between ...
in 1116. Sobieslaw is credited with the donation of St. Catherine's Church at
Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
and the foundation of the
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 B ...
abbey of
Oliwa
Oliwa ( la, Oliva; csb, Òlëwa; german: Oliva) is a northern district of the city of Gdańsk, Poland. From east it borders Przymorze and Żabianka, from the north Sopot and from the south with the districts of Strzyża, VII Dwór and Brętow ...
about 1180, which formerly has been attributed to his son
Sambor I.
Sobieslaw was married before 1150. He is the father of
*
Sambor I of Pomerania and
*
Mestwin I of Pomerania.
As the biographical sources are poor, traditional historiography has referred to his son Sambor I as ancestor of the Samborides dynasty.
See also
*
Pomeranian duchies and dukes
This is a list of the duchies and dukes of Pomerania.
Dukes of the Slavic Pomeranian tribes (All Pomerania)
The lands of Pomerania were firstly ruled by local tribes, who settled in Pomerania around the 10th and 11th centuries.
Non-dynastic
...
*
Gryfici (Świebodzice)
The Gryfici also Świebodzice was a medieval Polish knightly family. They occupied a dominant position among the nobles of Lesser Poland in the 12th and 13th century.
History
The family name comes from the emblem ''Gryf'' (a Griffin) of their ...
References
*Śliwiński Błażej, Poczet książąt gdańskich, Gdańsk 1997.
*Loew, Peter Oliver: Danzig. Biographie einer Stadt, Munich 2011, p. 32
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1130s births
1170s deaths
Dukes of Pomerania
Samborides