Sieradz - Definition and Overview

Sieradz is a town on Warta river in central Poland with 44,700 inhabitants (1995). f

Situated in the Lodz Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Sieradz Voivodship (1975-1998).

• Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna in Sieradz
• Wyższa Szkoła Kupiecka in Łódź, branch in Sieradz

Politics

Sieradz constituency

Members of Parliament (Sejm) elected from Sieradz constituency

• Anita Błochowiak, SLD-UP
• Borczyk Waldemar, Samoobrona
• Gajda Tadeusz, PSL
• Grabarczyk Cezary, PO
• Grabicka Krystyna, LPR
• Kaczmarek Michał, SLD-UP
• Krzywicki Piotr, PiS
• Nowacka Irena, SLD-UP
• Olejniczak Wojciech, SLD-UP
• Pęczak Andrzej, SLD-UP
• Rochnowska Renata, Samoobrona
• Zarzycki Wojciech, PSL

Municipal politics

to be written yet

Dukes of Sieradz-Leczyca

• 1228-1232 Henry I the Bearded (Henryk I Brodaty)
• 1232-1233 Konrad of Masovia (Konrad Mazowiecki)
• 1234-1247 Konrad of Masovia (Konrad Mazowiecki)
• 1247-1260 Casimir I of Mazovia (Kazimierz I Mazowiecki)
• 1260-1275 Leszek the Black (Leszek Czarny)
• 1275-1294 divided into two duchies of Sieradz and Leczyca (below)
• 1294-1297 Ladislaus III the Short (Władysław Łokietek)
• 1297-1305 Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (Wacław II Czeski)

after 1305 parts of the united Kingdom of Poland initially as two vassal duhies, later incorporated as Leczyca Voivodship and Sieradz Voivodship.

Dukes of Sieradz

• 1233-1234 Boluslaus I of Mazovia (Bolesław I Mazowiecki)
• 1275-1288 Leszek the Black (Leszek Czarny)
• 1288-1294 Ladislaus III the Short (Władysław Łokietek )
• 1327-1339 Przemysl of Cuiavia (Przemysł Kujawski)

After 1305 part of the united Kingdom of Poland as a vassal duchy, later after 1339 incorporated by the king Casimir III the Great as the Sieradz Voivodship

See also: Dukes of Sieradz-Leczyca

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