Court dresses that were fashionable during Rokiczany's life.

Krystyna Rokiczana (before 1330- after 1365)

Morgamatic wife of Casimir the Great, a Czech bourgeois. Little is known about Krystyna before she met the Polish king. We do not know the exact date of her birth. She first appears in sources as Nicholas's wife in 1343. Her first husband was the son of an influential burgher Menhart from Rokiczany (hence the nickname of Krystyna). Mikołaj was climbing the career ladder. In 1336 he even lent money to the Czech king John of Luxembourg. Probably in 1346 Rokiczana was widowed, while inheriting, together with her husband's property, part of the influence at the Prague court and gaining the trust of Emperor Charles IV. When Casimir the Great appeared in the Czech capital in 1356, the local ruler decided to use Krystyna as his agent. A rich, agile townswoman, carefully educated, with intelligence, good manners and beauty, she quickly charmed the Polish king. According to sources, having fallen in love with Kazimierz, the young widow refused him her charms if he did not legally marry her. The wedding took place in Kraków, and the wedding ceremony was performed by the Tyniec abbot.

During her stay in Poland, Rokiczana was an active agent of Charles IV. A letter has survived, in which she declares that, as a Polish queen (she has never been crowned), she will influence her husband not to act against the interests of the emperor. However, Krystyna's morganatic marriage with the Polish king was not legal. The second wife of Kazimierz Adelaide Heska was still alive, although her husband tried to annul their marriage and hoped that he would be able to do so with the support of Emperor Charles IV. Jan Długosz noted in his chronicle that the king dismissed Krystyna immediately after the wedding, after he had allegedly found out by eye that she was bald and had scabies, but this information is not considered reliable. Rokiczana could still be in Poland when Kazimierz remarried, marrying Jadwiga Żagańska in 1365. The exact date of Krystyna's death is unknown.