Kowal

Kowal was a royal town in Kuyavia and the seat of a county within the Polish kingdom. It is remembered as the birthplace of Casimir III the Great, the last king of the Piast dynasty, whose reign saw the strengthening of royal authority and the foundation of many towns. The town belonged to the lands governed from Brześć Kujawski, south of Włocławek, amid the fields and settlements of central Poland.