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The only historical source that mentions the banquet at Wierzynek's are the ''Annals of the Glorious Kingdom of Poland'' by Jan Długosz, also known by his Latinized name, Joannes Longinus. According to his account, the whole story started when Charles of Luxembourg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of Bohemia (a kingdom roughly corresponding to the modern-day Czech Republic) was receiving envoys from Hungary and said something very offensive about King Louis of Hungary's mom. It led, obviously, to a major diplomatic crisis. Louis, together with Duke Rudolph Habsburg of Austria (who also had his differences with the emperor and, incidentally, his father-in-law), was getting ready for war. This is when Pope Urban V decided it was enough that Western Europe, recently ravaged by a pandemic of bubonic plague, was already being plunged into a bloody conflict (which would later come to be known as the Hundred Years' War). Having rulers of the relatively stable and quickly developing Central Europe at each other's throats would be too much. Which is why he dispatched his nuncio, Peter of Volterra, to try and calm them down. The nuncio did a great job -- he managed to prevent hostilities and to convince the wrangling monarchs to settle their argument through arbitration. It was agreed there would be two adjudicators: one was Duke Bolko the Small of Schweidnitz, the last sovereign ruler in Silesia and uncle of the emperor's recently deceased third wife. The other was King Casimir of Poland, brother of the Hungarian queen mother whose honour had been besmirched.
The nuncio also engaged in matchmaking and arranged the marriage of the recently freshly widowed emperor with Casimir's granddaughter, Duchess Elizabeth of Stolp, Pomerania. The wedding was held in Cracow. According to Longinus, people invited by King Casimir included -- apart from the young bride (and her family) and the not-so-young groom (and his family) -- King Louis of Hungary, King Sigismund of Denmark, King Peter of Cyprus, Duke Bolko the Small of Schweidnitz, Duke Otto V of Bavaria, Duke Semovit of Masovia, Duke Vladislav II of Opole etc. The wedding reception lasted twenty days, during which barrels of wine were put out in the streets for the common folk, while the royals and lords enjoyed tournaments, dances and banquets. The festivites were overseen -- again, according to Longinus -- by a certain Wierzynek, "a councillor of Cracow, native of the Rhineland" and "manager of the royal treasury". He held one of the banquets in his own home, where -- in gratitude for "unspeakable benevolence" -- he seated King Casimir (and not the emperor!) in the place of honour and showered him with presents that were worth more than the new empress's dowry.<ref>{{Cyt
| nazwisko = Długosz
| imię = Jan
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So much for Longinus. Unfortunately, historians have realized long realized ago that much of this story is at odds with what you can read in other historical documents, especially in the Cracow cathedral chronicle, the ''Annals of the Holy Cross'' (although these contain errors too, which Longinus merely repeated) and ''The Capture of Alexandria'', an epic poem by Guillaume de Machaut (more about which later). Neither the date, nor the purpose, nor the guestlist of the event turned out to be exactly as the chronicler claimed they were. This is how these discrepancies were summed up at the end of the 19th century by prof. Stanisław Kutrzeba:
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| Clear-headed historical criticism does not fully trust Longinus, who tends to combine separate facts, looks for relationships among them where there weren't any and embellishes his account with more than just stylistic additions. Neither did the beautiful story of a king's fight for his sister's honour and of his granddaughter's wedding survive the scalpel of critique. Doubts, minor at first, eventually dismantled almost entirely the structure which Longinus had skillfully pieced together.
| źródło = S. Kutrzeba, ''Krakowski zjazd monarchów, czyli uczta u Wierzynka,'', p. 53, own translation
| oryg = Trzeźwa krytyka historyczna nie bardzo wierzy Długoszowi, który nieraz wiąże ze sobą fakty odrębne, szuka między nimi związku, choć go nie było, wreszcie upiększa i ozdabia opowiadanie nie tylko stylistycznymi dodatkami. Tak i ten piękny obraz walki o sławę siostry i zaślubin wnuki królewskiej nie ostał się przed skalpelem krytyki. Drobne początkowo wątpliwości doprowadziły do tego, iż prawie na szczątki rozbito gmach sklejony sztucznie przez Długosza.}}
[[File:Busta Alzbeta Pomoranska.jpg|thumb|170px|Empress Elizabeth's bust in Saint Vitus' Cathedral in Prague (ca. 1380)]]
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Przy tym nieco egzotycznym władcy chwilę się zatrzymamy, bo to ciekawa historia. Królestwo Cypru powstało po tym, jak krzyżowcy pod wodzą króla Ryszarda Lwie Serce zdobyli tę chrześcijańską wprawdzie, ale strategicznie położoną, wyspę. Panowali tam katoliccy królowie z wywodzącej się z Francji dynastii Luzynianów. Wojowali przeważnie z równie katolicką Genuą, ale ze względów propagandowych głosili potrzebę walki z Arabami i Turkami. I tak, w 1362 r., król Piotr wyruszył w ''tournée'' po Europie, aby zebrać chętnych i środki finansowe na kolejną krucjatę przeciwko niewiernym. Przejechał przez Włochy, Francję, dzisiejszą Belgię, Anglię i Niemcy. Zebrał sporo kasy, ale po drodze go okradli, więc musiał zacząć zbiórkę od początku. Wreszcie dotarł do Pragi, na dwór cesarza Karola, który zaproponował mu, że zabierze go na wielki zjazd monarchów do Krakowa, dokąd właśnie się wybiera, i tam będzie mógł propagować swoją krucjatę. Po latach owe peregrynacje króla Piotra, jak i samą krucjatę przeciwko Egiptowi, opisał de Machault w ''Zdobyciu Aleksandrii''.