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NATURE AND IMPORT OF THE ''DAGOME IUDEX'' The ''Dagome iudex'' survives only in the form of a summary, completed ca. 1080 . It was found in a register compiled by a Curial Cardinal during the Papacy of Gregory VII . Most historians believe that ''Dagome'' is a melding of two names: the Christian ''Dago'', for "Dagobert" (Mieszko's baptismal name), and the Slavic ''Me'', for "Mieszko." The Latin word ''iudex'' ("judge") is used in the meaning of "prince." Place names are misspelled by the person who made the summary. He was also apparently unaware that the document related to Poland. The boundaries of the " Gniezno " state are described as extending to the "Long Sea" (the Baltic ), Prussia , Rus' , Kraków , Moravia and the Oder River . The document did not take account of Mieszko 's territorial conquests of 989 - 990 , Lesser Poland and Silesia . The ''Dagome iudex'' is of capital importance for Polish History in giving a general description of the Polish state in that period. It, however, leaves unanswered many questions. First, it does not explain ''why'' Mieszko I placed his state under the protection of the Pope. Also, it is unclear why the document does not mention Mieszko's eldest son, Bolesław I The Brave . Mentioned instead are his sons by his second wife, Oda. No mention is made, too, of the third son from that marriage, Świętopełk . In addition, it is not clear why the city of Kraków , which had probably been conquered by Mieszko before the document was drawn up, is mentioned as a borderland and not as part of the "''Shinesghe civitas''." Finally, Mieszko I is not referred to as "''Dagome''" in any other document. Historians suppose that Bolesław's absence from the document might be explained by an old Slavic custom whereby children received their inheritance as soon as they reached the Age Of Majority . Thus Bolesław The Brave might have received Kraków as his part of his father's legacy before the ''Dagome iudex'' had been written. SUMMARY TEXT OF THE ''DAGOME IUDEX''
Item in alio tomo sub Iohanne XV papa Dagome iudex et fuisse, quoniam ipsi a III iudicibus reguntur - leguntur beato Petro contulisse unam civitatem in integro, que vocatur Schinesghe, cum omnibus suis pertinentiis infra hos affines, sicuti incipit a primo latere longum mare, fine Bruzze usque in locum, qui dicitur Russe et fines Russe extendente usque in Craccoa et ab ipsa Craccoa usque ad flumen Oddere recte in locum, qui dicitur Alemure, et ab ipsa Alemura usque in terram Milze recte intra Oddere et exinde ducente iuxta flumen Oddera usque in predictam civitatem Schinesghe. :"Also in another volume from the times of , others with the province of Pomerania (the Baltic coast), a part of Poland ca. 990 ., along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder , straight to a place called Alemure''Alemure'' might be the city of Olomouc , in Moravia . However, this is uncertain., and from said Alemure to the land of Milze , and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe." NOTES The following notes are based on interpretations by the Polish historian Gerard Labuda . SEE ALSO Scandinavian Connections To Mieszko I . |
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