Editing Jan Długosz (section)

==Life==
[[File:Jan Długosz 1.PNG|thumb|left|Jan Długosz by [[Antoni Gramatyka]]]]
Jan Długosz is best known for his {{ill|Annals or Chronicles of the Famous Kingdom of Poland|pl|Roczniki czyli kroniki sławnego Królestwa Polskiego|ru|Хроника Длугоша|italic=y}} (''Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae'') in 12 volumes and originally written in [[Latin language|Latin]], covering events throughout southeastern and western Europe, from 965 to 1480, the year he died.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05069b.htm|title=Jan Dlugosz|work=[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]}}</ref><ref name=ehu/> Długosz combined features of Medieval chronicles with elements of [[humanistic historiography]].<ref name=ehu/> For writing the history of the Kingdom of Poland, Długosz also used Ruthenian  chronicles including those that did not survive to our times (among which there could have been used the Kyiv collection of chronicles of the 11th century in the Przemysl's edition around 1100 and the Przemysl episcopal collections of 1225–40).<ref name=ehu/>

His work was first printed in 1701–1703. It was originally printed at the [[Jan Szeliga]] printing house in [[Dobromyl]] financed by [[Jan Szczęsny Herburt]].<ref name=ehu/> Whenever Jan Długosz bothers to mention himself in the book, he writes of himself in the [[Grammatical person|third person]]. He belonged to the [[Wieniawa Coat of Arms|Wieniawa]] [[Polish heraldry|coat-of-arms]].

Długosz was a [[Canon (priest)|canon]] at [[Kraków]],<ref name=davies>{{cite book |title=God's Playground: A History of Poland |first=Norman |last=Davies  |volume=I |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=1982 |page=5}}</ref> where he lived in the [[Długosz House in Kraków|Długosz House]], and was educated at the [[University of Krakow]]. He was sent by King [[Casimir IV Jagiellon]] of Poland on diplomatic missions to the [[Pope|Papal]] and [[Holy Roman Emperor|Imperial]] courts, and was involved in the King's negotiations with the [[Teutonic Knights]] during the [[Thirteen Years' War (1454–66)|Thirteen Years' War]] (1454–66) and at the peace negotiations.

When scholar [[Sandivogius of Czechel]] left Krakow, Długosz as his friend kept him in touch with the university.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Westman |first=Robert S. |url=https://books.google.fr/books?id=sLb6k-62vbQC&dq=cremona+astronomy+1429+krakow+czechel&pg=PA145&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=cremona%20astronomy%201429%20krakow%20czechel&f=false |title=The Copernican Achievement |date=1975-01-01 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-02877-7 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1434, Długosz's uncle, the first pastor at [[Kłobuck]], appointed him to take over his position as canon of St. Martin church there. The town was in the [[Opole]] territory of [[Silesia]], but had recently been conquered by [[Jogaila|Władysław II Jagiełło]]. Długosz stayed until 1452 and while there, founded the canonical monastery.

In 1450, Długosz was sent by Queen [[Sophia of Halshany]] and King Casimir to conduct peace negotiations between [[John Hunyadi]] and the [[Bohemia]]n noble [[Jan Jiskra of Brandýs]], and after six days' of talks convinced them to sign a truce.

In 1455 in [[Kraków]], a fire spread which destroyed much of the city and the castle, but which spared [[Długosz House in Kraków|Długosz's House]].

In 1461 a Polish delegation which included Długosz met with emissaries of [[George of Podebrady]] in [[Bytom]], [[Silesia]]. After six days of talks, they concluded an alliance between the two factions. In 1466 Długosz was sent to the legate of [[Wrocław]], in order to attempt to obtain assurance that the legate was not biased in favor of the [[Teutonic Knights]]. He was successful, and was in 1467 entrusted with tutoring the king's son.

Długosz declined the offer of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague|Archbishopric of Prague]], but shortly before his death was nominated [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv|Archbishop of Lwów]].  This nomination was only confirmed by [[Pope Sixtus IV]] on 2 June 1480,<ref>[[Konrad Eubel]] (1914). ''Hierarchia catholica medii aevi'', Münster: Librariae Regensbergianae, vol. 2, p. 176.</ref> two weeks after his death.

His work ''Banderia Prutenorum'' of 1448 is his description of the 1410 [[Battle of Grunwald]], which took place between villages of [[Grunwald, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship|Grunwald]] and [[Stębark]].

At some point in his life Długosz loosely translated [[Wigand of Marburg]]'s ''[[Chronica nova Prutenica]]'' from [[Middle High German]] into [[Latin]], however with many mistakes and mixup of names and places.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8H8OAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA676&dq=Memel+fluss+historie#PPA431,M1 Samples of Jan Dlugosz mistakes and mixups on Pages 431–434] in Scriptorum Rerum Prussicarum</ref>