page_title: Przemysł II
section_title: Duke of Greater Poland (1279–1290)
hierarchical_section_title: Przemysł II / Duke of Greater Poland (1279–1290)
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Przemysł II, ks. polski, pozwala Mikołajowi, sędziemu, synowi Przedpełka, woj. poznańskiego, lokować Gostyń i Brzezie na prawie niemieckim. Język: łac. Opis zewnętrzny: oryg., 1 k. pergaminowa, 21,5 x 26 + 1,8 cm; 2 nacięcia po pieczęci
context_page_description: Przemysł II, was the Duke of Poznań from 1257–1279, of Greater Poland from 1279–1296, of Kraków from 1290–1291, and Gdańsk Pomerania from 1294–1296, and then King of Poland from 1295 until his death. After a long period of Polish high dukes and two nominal kings, he was the first to obtain the hereditary title of king, and thus to return Poland to the rank of kingdom. A member of the Greater Poland branch of the House of Piast as the only son of Duke Przemysł I and the Silesian princess Elisabeth, he was born posthumously; for this reason he was brought up at the court of his uncle Bolesław the Pious and received his own district to rule, the Duchy of Poznań in 1273. Six years later, after the death of his uncle, he also obtained the Duchy of Kalisz.
  In the first period of his government, Przemysł II was involved only in regional affairs, first in close collaboration and then competing with the Duke of Wrocław, Henryk IV Probus. This policy caused the rebellion of the prominent Zaremba family and the temporary loss of Wieluń. Working with the Archbishop of Gniezno, Jakub Świnka, he sought the unification of the principalities of the Piast dynasty.
caption: Przemysł II allows to locate cities Gostyń and Brzezie on Magdeburg rights, a document from 1278.
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