Jax from Mechov

According to legend, Yaksa from Mekhov came from the Griffiths family and he is also called Yaksa Grifich . His family is linked to the Pomeranian dynasty (Grifichi). In the Greater Poland Chronicle, circa 1142, he was called the Prince of Sorb ^[1] and reports on his marriage to the daughter of Peter Vlast (who in the chronicle is derived from Denmark). In the chronicle it is called Prince Sorbov and erroneously ^[2] mixes with Yaksa from Kopanitsa :

Komit Peter caused unpleasant feelings in Vladislav, but at the same time Vladislav was afraid that Peter together with his brothers would not declare war on him, and therefore, pretending to postpone his vengeful deeds; and when the aforementioned commander Peter gave his daughter in marriage to Yaksa, Prince of Sorabia 5, solemnly celebrating this event in the city of Wroclaw, Vladislav, sending his people, ordered him to be seized, cut off his tongue and blinded.

- The great chronicle of Poland, Russia and their neighbors. chapter 32

Yaksa from Mekhov in 1162 made a pilgrimage to Palestine. Then he founded the monastery ^[3] . In 1170, Jax from Mekhov was one of the leaders who spoke in Krakow against the Polish king Boleslav Kudryavy ^[4] . Researchers suggest the death of Yaksa from Mekhov in 1176 ^[3] .

Krakow meadow - a former possession of Yaksa donated to the monastery.

• A. Małecki, Studya heraldyczne , t. II, Lwów 1890, s. 59-64 .
• Bandtke, Georg Samuel . History of the State of Poland. - St. Petersburg: Printing House of the Imperial Russian Academy, 1830. - T. 1. - S. 295-297, 314-316, 342. - 5 + 342 p.
• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie: Jaczo von Copenik