Jakub of Żnin ( pl, Jakub ze Żnina) was an early archbishop of

Gniezno Gniezno (; german: Gnesen; la, Gnesna) is a city in central-western Poland, about east of Poznań. Its population in 2021 was 66,769, making it the sixth-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. One of the Piast dynasty's chief cities, ...

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. He was archbishop from c. 1124 until 1148.Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gniezno
at GCatholic.org Although the twelfth century was a formative time for the Polish state, the

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s of the time are sparse and there is much that is not known about him. It was during his time as Bishop that Innocent II issues a

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giving the metropolitan power over Poland to the

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. This was annulled in 1136 when Innocent II restored as Gniezno with archbishop authority. His death was recorded in the Lubiński obituary on the day of 23 September. On 7 July 1136

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granted Archbishop Jacob twenty-nine villages in

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and the town of

Żnin Żnin (german: Znin, 1941-45: Dietfurt) is a town in north-central Poland with a population of 14,181 (June 2014). It is in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (previously Bydgoszcz Voivodeship) and is the capital of Żnin County. The historical t ...

, which also became property of the

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Poland and the papacy before the second crusade
Archbishops of Gniezno 11th-century births 1148 deaths {{Poland-RC-bishop-stub