Seniorate Province, also known as the Senioral Province, was a district principality in the Duchy of Poland that was formed in 1138, following the fragmentation...

hypothesis. Bolesław divided his domains into the following provinces: The Seniorate Province (with his capital Kraków) was supposed to be non-inherited and indivisible...

He unsuccessfully tried to incorporate the Duchy of Kraków (the Seniorate Province) in 1289, following the death of his half-brother Leszek II the Black...

Łęczyca Province (Łęczyca Land and Sieradz Land) which were held by Bolesław's widow Salomea of Berg for life and to revert to the Seniorate Province upon...

wife Zbyslava of Kiev, was proclaimed high duke and overlord of the Seniorate Province at Kraków, including the Greater Polish lands of Gniezno and Kalisz...

Duke (Princeps). In addition to Silesia, he received the central Seniorate Province, stretching from Lesser Poland at Kraków to eastern Greater Poland...

Silesian duke once again became entangled in the dispute over the Seniorate Province. In 1229 he was captured and arrested at Płock Castle by rivaling...

960–1025  Kingdom of Poland, 1025–1031  Duchy of Poland, 1031–1320 ∟  Seniorate Province, 1138–1227  Duchy of Kraków, 1227–1320 Kingdom of Poland, 1320–1569...

1173, and of Sandomierz after 1173. He became ruler over the Polish Seniorate Province at Kraków and thereby High Duke of Poland in 1177; a position he held...

years. However, in 1198, Mieszko III finally regained power over the Seniorate Province through an agreement with Helen of Znojmo. On behalf of her eldest...