Talk:Mieszko II Lambert

message: The author of the text of the article appears not to be fluent in English, and the text contains many, spelling, grammatical and syntactical errors. which render it unclear and/or unintelligible in many places. The article requires a complete re-write. I would attempt this, but am not fully conversant with the historical context of Mieszko's reign. Geoff Powers (talk) 14:01, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. Some of that errors may be caused by translating the Polish version of article via Google Translate. The Polish chronicles clearly stated that he died of natural causes; the information that he was murdered by a swordfish, given by the chronicles of Gottfried of Viterbo, refers to Bezprym.  Yeah, right. And then that murderous swordfish has jumped the shark. This article needs new category: Monarchs allegedly killed by aquatic animals. Nachasz --213.146.48.245 (talk) 06:29, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Text of Article needs a complete re-write

message: Michael/Mieszko of Hungary and his brother, Geza, were sons of Taksony of Hungary.  Michael of Hungary was sometime Regent of Poland by way of his wife, Adelaide "the White" of Poland, who was the sister of Michael/Mieszko I of Poland.
Their son was Vazul, Prince of Hungary.
Michael II of Poland was son of Bolezlav I "The Brave", who was the son of Michael/Mieszko I.
The redirection seems improper. The origin of Vasul is in doubt, but his Hungarian name Vászoly seems derived from the Byzantine Greek Βαςιληος (King/Emperor), then pronounced something like "Vasilius" as represented in Russian Vasily. The only other possible derivation that I can imagine is some cognate of the Czech Václav (Wenceslas), which is even more of a stretch. It is also possible that the king attempted to adopt the Greek-like Vászoly  as a title as a distinction from a mere 'king' (Hungarian király).
Most peerage sites suggest, of course, that Vászoly is the son of a Taksony, who is definitely not Polish. He is definitely part of the Árpád dynasty -- not the Polish Piast dynasty. The name Mieszko is easily rendered in Hungarian as Miesko (Hungarian s and sz are equivalents of Polish sz and s, respectively), and even if Mieszko is in fact a diminuitive of "Michael", it would more easily be treated as the Hungarian Mihály.
Any attempt to state that a historical figure had two different identities requires strong and positive evidence (as in public records), and not so flimsy connection as the appearance of someone at roughly the same age in a second place after another has disappeared from another. One would have to establish, at the least, that a Polish prince who became King of Hungary would speak funny or bring foreign ways. It is safe to assume that Poland and Hungary were at least as culturally and linguistically different then as they are now. The absence of contradictory evidence is not proof even in the scarcity of confirming evidence of a more reasonable position: that Vászoly/Vasul and Mieszko are two different persons. --66.231.41.57 21:52, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was no consensus. Haukur 21:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why has Vazul been redirected to Mieszko of Hungary? 

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* Support. As nominator. Marrtel 18:32, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Erm, was that "support" or "oppose"?  :) --Elonka 18:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Poll

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message: I hope nobody objects; I've changed the default sort order in the categories. It had been set to sort as Lambert, Mieszko II. At least in Category:House of Piast it makes more sense--and is more consistent with the bulk of the other entries--to have it sort as Mieszko.  His name was Mieszko; Lambert seems to be more of a nickname than a surname. If anybody feels that it should be the other way in some other category, perhaps they could change it for that particular category, rather than across the board.  71.126.140.136 (talk) 19:31, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change categories' sort orders