Chencin Royal Castle

The castle of Chencin (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship) was built almost throughout the Middle Ages, although there are practically no accurate and clear source records about the beginning of the building of the fortress. In quite common sources, the initiator of the building of the castle is considered to be Jan Muskata, bishop of Krakow, who started building it at the end of the 13th century. It is known, that the fortress existed as early, as 1306, as it is mentioned in one of the documents of Władysław Łokietek. During the reign of this ruler (King of Poland from 1320), the castle played a very important political and military role and was one of the most important capitals of the kingdom. Here, too, at the beginning of the 14th century, several meetings of the knights and nobles of Lesser Poland and Greater Poland took place. From here Władysław Łokietek went to the victorious battle of Plovce in 1331. During the reign of Casimir the Great, the castle experiences its "golden age", as it is expanded and transformed into an almost impregnable fortress. During the renaissance era, the military significance of the castle clearly decreased, and the building complex itself began to decay. Unfortunately, the process of the castle's decay continued in the following centuries, so already in the 19th century it was described as a ruin, rather than as a surviving defensive structure. Renovations started in this century, albeit on a small scale, were continued after 1945, and in 2013-2015 the castle began to be reconstructed and is now in the form of "sustainable and orderly ruins". It housed the exposition of the Museum of Medieval History.

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