Congress of Gniezno

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While on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint Adalbert at Gniezno in 1000 A.D., Otto III, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, invested Boleslaus I of Poland with the title Frater et Cooperator Imperii ("Brother and Partner of the Empire"). On the same visit Otto III raised Gnesen/Gniezno to the rank of an archbishopric. Poland become separate from bishopry in Magdeburg province of the church, that helped her to keep semi-independence from Holy Roman Empire throught the middle ages. Eventually, Poland stayed outside the Holy Roman Empire, while i.e. Bohemia, that did get only bishopri, become one of its countries.

See also: History of Poland