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Refusing to dismiss Goworek cost Leszek decades of rule
A High Duke refuses to dismiss his closest ally at Kraków’s gates and risks everything to keep a promise-what did it cost him?
Refusing to dismiss Goworek cost Leszek decades of rule
In this episode, we follow Leszek the White from a child duke under his mother’s regency to a man defending his claim to Kraków amid factional warfare. We trace the decisions, alliances, and battles that shaped his path and ask what refusing to remove his trusted collaborator cost him and his realm.
Person: Leszek the White
Person: Goworek
Date: 1194-1227
Location: Kraków; Gąsawa; Marcinkowo
Event: Battle of…
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