Jan Muskata

Johann Muskata ( Jan also Mustaka ) (* around 1250 in Breslau, † February 7, 1320 ) was from 1294 bishop of Krakow.

The German -born clergyman was the son of a Breslau merchant who traded with exotic spices, from which was derived the nickname of nutmeg. As bishop, he supported the claims of the Bohemian kings of Ottokar II and then Wenceslas II, he served in 1301 as Vice - Chancellor. Muskata was opposed to the Senior Duke Władysław I the Elbow- who had in 1306 gained control of the city of Krakow, whereupon Muskata was imprisoned in 1308 and released after Pope's appeal 1309. After the suppression of the insurrection of Cracow reeve Albert 1311 he remained largely ineffective. His opponent was within the Church, the Archbishop of Gniezno, Jakub Świnka, the Muskata accused as an "enemy of the Polish people " before a church court. Shortly before his death he attended the coronation of his erstwhile opponent Władysław I the Elbow- in to the king of Poland. His successor at the Cracow bishop's throne was Nanker.