Okoliczności wstąpienia na tron halicko-wołyński Piasta mazowieckiego Bolesława Trojdenowica (nieznane dokumenty ruskie z XIV wieku)

Abstract

The history of Galician-Volhynian Ruthenia in the first half of the 14th century is very poorly sourced. A Ukrainian historian, Oleg Kupˇcinskij, who had strenuously collected all available clues and information about the Galicia-Volhynia documents from the 13th century and the first half of the 14th century, undertook to reconstruct the state of the sources that were either lost or deformed with great commitment. However, documents stored in the Metrica Regni which were included there by the heirs of the village Zabłoćce in 1533 and translated from Ruthenian to Latin without chronological elements, escaped his notice. One of them, the endowment made by Duke [Bolesław] Jerzy Trojdenowicz (together with his mother Maria Juriewna Trojdenowa) for Chodor Hołowacz, provides us with new information about the beginning of the reign exercised by Bolesław Jerzy II in the Galician-Volhynian Ruthenia. I believe that both parts of Bolesław Jerzy II’s monarchy maintained state sovereignty under the scepter of one ruler. Even though the Masovian Piast took over the Galician-Volhynian Ruthenia being a heir of his uncles and grandfather, Wolhynia was a part of the state which had just been incorporated to Jerzy Lwowic’s monarchy, i.e. about 1304, after Mścisław II’s consent. What is more, boyars’ rebellions that finished with tragic deaths of the Dukes: Jerzy, Andrzej, Lew II and Bolesław Jerzy II, took place just there.