Salomea of Poland (1211/1212 – 1268), also known as Salomea of Cracow or Blessed Salomea (Polish: Błogosławiona Salomea), (1211–1268) was a Polish princess and from 1215 to 1219 the Queen of Halych by virtue of being the wife of Kálmán or Coloman of Galicia.
Salomea was the daughter of Leszek I the White, who was the Duke of Kraków and thus the High Duke in Poland, and his wife Grzymisława of Łuck (or Lutsk). She was the older sister of Bolesław V the Chaste. Her marriage to Kálmán, who was the son of King András or Andrew II of Hungary, was negotiated when she was about three. Since her mother had ancestral connections to the lands of Galicia, and both her father and King Andrew wanted to dominate that area, this plan seemed to meet the needs of both parties.[1] The marriage of Salomea and Kálmán, who was seven at the time, occurred in 1215.[2] In 1219 their control in Galicia was ended and for a time they were taken as prisoners. After their release they returned to Hungary and lived in Szepes, now Spiš in the nation of Slovakia.
Salomea supported the Franciscans in Poland. In 1245 she joined the Order of Poor Ladies and founded a monastery in Zawichost in which to live as nuns according to the Rule of Saint Clare. Because of the danger of a Mongol invasion into Poland, Salomea and the other Poor Ladies moved westward from Zawichost in March 1257, and relocated to Skała, north of Kraków.[3] Salomea was considered saintly and it was said that a star flew out of her mouth when she died.[5]
Chapel of Blessed Salomea, St. Francis of Assisi Church, Krakow, Poland
^Monks of Ramsgate. "Salomea". Book of Saints 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 20 November 2016 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (c. 1000-1300) (Lars Boje Mortensen, ed.) Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006, p. 183 ISBN9788763504072
^Koziara, Thomas P., Historia Nostra: The Complete History of Poland: Volume III: 1333 to 1586 Aurifera S.A., 2020. p. 13
Sources
Gábor Klaniczay (14 March 2002). Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe. Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-521-42018-1. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
Holly, Karol (2007). "Princess Salomea and Hungarian – Polish Relations in the Period 1214 – 1241". Historický časopis. 55 (Supplement): 5–32. ISSN 0018-2575.
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