Pyzdry

Pyzdry is an old royal town of Greater Poland, first recorded in 1232 during an invasion by the Silesian duke Henry the Bearded. After the Teutonic Knights burned it in 1331, Casimir the Great ordered a castle and defensive walls built. He also chose Pyzdry as a place to conclude a truce with John of Bohemia in 1345 and to present legal statutes for Greater Poland the following year.

In 1390 Władysław Jagiełło received the homage of Duke Wartislaw VII of Pomerania here. Pyzdry later served as a county seat and a gathering place for the Kalisz Voivodeship's levy. Swedish soldiers captured and plundered it in 1655, and a great fire followed in 1768. After the Second Partition in 1793, the town passed to Prussia, then to the Duchy of Warsaw and Congress Poland.