Leszek I the White, High Duke of Poland (born c. 1186)

Leszek I the White

High Duke of Poland intermittently between 1194 and 1227

Leszek the White was Prince of Sandomierz and High Duke of Poland in the years 1194–1198, 1199, 1206–1210, and 1211–1227. During the early stages of his reign, his uncle Duke Mieszko III the Old and cousin Władysław III Spindleshanks, from the Greater Polish branch of the royal…