Mieszko of Bytom

Mieszko of Bytom (also Mestko / Mesko of Bytom; Polish Mieszko Bytomski; Czech Mesek Bytomsko - Koselský; * 1295/1300, † 1344 in Veszprém ) was Duke of Bytom. 1328-1334 he was Bishop of Neutra and 1334-1344 Bishop of Veszprém as well as prior of the Hospitallers Hungarian province. He was also Chancellor of the Hungarian Queen Elizabeth. He came to the Silesian Piast branch of Bytom.

Life

Mieszko was the youngest son of Casimir II and the Duke Beuthener Helena, whose origin is not known. They set him on the spiritual path. After his father's death in 1312 his older brothers kept the possessions that were still assigned to them in his lifetime of the Father: Boleslaw was Duke of Tost, Władysław was Duke of Cosel, and later of Bytom and Ziemowit was first Duke of Bytom and from 1337 Duke of Gliwice. Mieszko, who probably got the Duchy Sewerien, was already in 1313 a member of the Order of St. John, and two years later became Prior of the Hospitallers Hungarian province.

Since Mieszko sister Mary was married to the Hungarian King Charles Robert, also her brothers maintained good relations with the Hungarian royal court, with whom she remained connected even after Mary's death in 1317. Mieszko's brother Boleslaw since 1315 probably lived in the Hungarian royal court and was appointed in 1321 to the Archbishop of Gran. Shortly before his death in 1328 he succeeded to enforce Mieszko on the episcopal throne of neutralinos, although the local cathedral chapter was against it. Probably in the same year renounced Mieszko to the office Priors of St. John, and in favor of his brother Władysław to the Duchy Sewerien. Since the resistance of Nitra cathedral chapter continued against him in the subsequent years, he came on the recommendation of the Hungarian Queen Elizabeth in 1334 to the bishopric of Veszprém. In the same year he was appointed Chancellor of Queen Elizabeth. 1342 he took part in the coronation of the Hungarian King Ludwig I.. His body was buried in the Cathedral of Veszprém.