Talk:Zawisza the Black

Alternate names

Zawisza Czarny - he was probably known under another (German or Latin) name. Xx236 09:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Might be. Any details? //Halibutt 10:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Obsessive ethnicity POV-warring, again

I am going to remove and/or de-focus the silly POV warring over ethnicities. The primary source cited by Matthead is certainly insufficient, by itself, to create any POV issue here or justify doubts about calling him a Pole, pure and simple. It's a catalogue of noble families of Poland, which merely claims that the family as a whole (the Sulima "genus") had some ultimate German background. But even if true, this might well have been centuries and multiple generations remote from this individual. Indeed, this page suggests that (according to one mid-19th-century heraldist), the coat of arms was "brought to Poland from Germany in 935[!] from the famed family of the Counts of Solms". (Although I doubt that dating, because that family is attested in Germany itself only from c.1100. Anyway, there are certainly more reliable sources out there about the history of that family.) In any case, I see no indication that any German connection was still relevant for the self-identification of this individual. Absent any findings in reliable secondary sources to the contrary, the guy is a Pole and his ethnicity is simply a non-issue. The remark in the Dlugosz catalogue might be relevant to an article about his family; I see no reason why we would even need to mention it here. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:14, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

  Exactly. Imagine a world where a german becomes a polish hero. We cannot have that, can we? Friendship between nations and such nonsense? "Obsessive ethnicity POV-warring" I hope that stick sits tight. 134.101.60.131 (talk) 19:11, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

all depend

by his grandmother he was a Italian from Genua, but by his grant-grandmother he was a German, by his 5th grant-grandfather he was the prince of Mazovia Poland, in other words he was the grand-grand-grand-grandson of Kazimirus the Prince of Mazovia.Finkpal; — Preceding unsigned comment added by Finkpal (talk • contribs) 15:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)