Ladislaus the Short (1260-1333), the younger brother of
Leszek the Black,
inherited the province of Kuyavia and had plans for unifying the Polish
territory. In 1296-1300, following a number of minor conquests, he
captured the senior province and the principality of Sandomierz. Prevented by
Wenceslas II
from taking Cracow, he appealed for assistance to the Hungarians who
helped him conquer Little Poland. However he lost Gdansk Pomerania to the
Order of the Teutonic Knights. In 1311, he suppressed a rebellion of the
Cracow townspeople, and then captured Great Poland. He knew what he wanted
and how to get it. In 1320, he crowned himself in Cracow. This date
is regarded as the end of the feudal disintegration of Poland.
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