JOHANN DE LADIMIRIA: THE PROBLEM OF ETHNIC ORIGIN OF THE CHAPLAIN OF THE SILESIAN DUKE HENRY VI THE GOOD ; JOHANN DE LADIMIRIA: ДО ПРОБЛЕМИ ЕТНІЧНОГО ПОХОДЖЕННЯ КАПЕЛАНА СІЛЕЗЬКОГО КНЯЗЯ ГЕНРІХА VI ДОБРОГО

The article deals with the biography of Johann de Ladimiria, who became a chaplain, a notary, a cantor and a personal confessor of Henry VI the Good, duke of Wroclaw, and his wife Annа of Austria. It is concluded, that Johann (terminus post quem 1320 – terminus ante quem 1349) was a member of catholic community of Volodymyr in Volhynia and, probably, was a descendant of German settlers of the city. The analysis of the historical sources (especially, the so-called Galician-Volhynian Chronicle – The Chronicle of Romanovychs) showed an active trade and political contacts of Volodymyr, a capital o... Mehr ...