Jeszcze o początkach rodu Pogobów, na marginesie dyskusji o pewnym falsyfikacie
More about the beginnings of the Pobóg family, on the margin of the discussion about a forgery

Summary/Abstract: Elaborated genealogy of the Pobóg family begins with brothers Mściwoj (a comes) and Gumbert (a clergyman) who lived in the first half of the 13th century. Te names of their ancestors have not been known. In this context, nobody paid attention to the forgery concerning the erection of the church in Kazimierza Mała. Tis document contains a number of names of the knights (the donors of the temple), who are considered to be historical figures living in the middle of the 13th century. Te false document enumerates their names, properties they came from and family affiliation. A closer look to the forged document enables to shif the chronology of these figures to the first half of the 13th century. As far as the witnesses enumerated in the false document are concerned, they were considered as the invention of the forger. However, the present article has shown that this view is too strong because in the forged document there are persons and names which are probable to appear in the first half of the 13th century. Due to that fact it is difficult to maintain a strong opinion of the forgery of the document. Te fact that the forged document contains also the names Mściwoj (of Jakuszowice, the son of Jan, Jastrzębiec coat of arms, a knight and a donor) and Gumbert (a clergyman, a witness) also encourages a deeper reflection. It is difficult to recognize it as a coincidence. Te first known members of the Pobóg family, living in the first half of the 13th century, bore the same names. Additionally, the members of this family (the descendants of comes Mściwoj) inherited in the vicinity (in Kazimierza Wielka, a village which borders Kazimierza Mała by the river Nidzica). Te forger’s information that Mściwoj’s coat of arms was Jastrzębiec does not pose an obstacle – it was only a supposition. The fact that the name Mściwoj (as well as the name Gumbert) did not occur at all in the Jasrzębiec family, but it was a family name of the Pobógs, and other premises testify against such family afliation. Te present article showed that Mściwoj and Gumbert could be sonsof any Jan and grandsons of Jakusz-Jakub (the name conserved in the name of the estate the knight Mściwoj came from).

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