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<body background="../images/background_1.jpg" style="font-family: Bookman Old Style">  <table border="0" width="6%" align="left" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p><font face="GothicE" size="7" color="#CC0000"><b>Popiel</b></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p style="text-align: justify"><font face="Bookman Old Style">is the name of the authors of this site. Popiel is also the name of (as we suspect) some 5000 people living on all continents. This name appears in the first description of Poland and its history dated on XII cetury. Its bearer was a legendary ruler of Poland living in IX century. Historic Popiels inhabited region of Sanok and Drohobycz (Eastern Poland and Western Ukraine) in XIV century. In <strong>1414</strong> the King of Poland and the Great Duke of Lithuania confirms Popiels' nobility acknowledging their merits at the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg). The oldest document related to our ancestors, which we were able to find is dated on <strong>July 21, 1427</strong>.</font></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><font face="Bookman Old Style">The knight Popiel and his immediate descendants were using the coat of arms <strong>Sas</strong>. In XVI century some of the Popiels were using the coat of arms <strong>Sulima</strong>. The coat of arms Sas was used by many families of the Ruthenian nobility. Their original nest was Galician Ruthenia. The Popiels of XV century were Ruthenians, in later centuries the Popiels migrated to central Poland and Russia changing their nationality. The clan of Popiels was very propagated already in XVI century. Some Popiels were spelling their name slightly different, as <strong>Popil</strong>. Ukrainian and Russian version of the name spelling with Roman characters is <strong>Popel</strong>. In XIX and XX century many Popiels settled in USA emigrants from Galicia , Eastern Poland and Russia, which are writing their names as <strong>Popiel</strong>, <strong>Popel and Popil</strong>.</font></p> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="604" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td width="276" height="400" background="../images/s.gif"><p align="center"> </td> <td width="284" height="400" background="../images/sulima.gif"><p align="center"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="276"><p align="center"><a href="sasdesc.htm" target="main"><font size="4" face="Bookman Old Style">Coat of Arms SAS - Description</font></a></td> <td width="284"><p align="center"><a href="sulima.htm" target="main"><font size="4" face="Bookman Old Style">Coat of Arms SULIMA - Description</font></a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p><font face="Bookman Old Style">Coat of arms of Popiels was Sas. Later, a branch of the family started using another coat of arms called Sulima. There was a single case noted, where a nobleman from the Popiel family used a coat of arms called Nalecz.</font></p> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="75%" cellpadding="15"> <tr> <td width="10%"><p align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style"><img src="../images/undercon.gif" alt="undercon.gif (293 bytes)" WIDTH="40" HEIGHT="38"></font></td> <td width="90%"><font face="Bookman Old Style">Note: This site is under continuous development. Some of  the documents presented at Polish-language site are not yet translated into English. The translation will proceed as rapidly as our professional duties allow.</font></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p style="text-align: justify"><font face="Bookman Old Style">This site intends to be a source of knowledge about origins and history of the Popiels, so that all Popiels can learn about their ancestry. Also it creates a possibility of developing contacts between people who most probably came from the good knight Popiel living circa <strong>1380</strong>. We hope that we contribute to starting and developing aforementioned contacts and that the site will grow with new information related not only to the history of our powerful clan, but also related to the living Popiels of today.</font></p> <p><font face="Bookman Old Style">Jan Popiel</font></p> <p><font face="Bookman Old Style">Slawomir (Mike) Popiel</font></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><font face="Bookman Old Style">Translation from Polish to English: sp</font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style"><a href="frames1.htm" target="_top">Home</a> | <a href="roots.htm">Next</a></font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="8"> <tr> <td width="25%" height="1" nowrap><p align="center"><font size="2" face="Bookman Old Style">[ <a href="http://htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=kingpopiel&i=1&a=sign" target="main"><font face="arial,helv,helvetica,sans serif" size=-1>Sign My Guestbook</font></a> ]</font></td> <td width="25%" height="1" nowrap><p align="center"><font size="2" face="Bookman Old Style">[ <a href="http://htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=kingpopiel&i=1&a=view" target="main"><font face="arial,helv,helvetica,sans serif" size=-1>View My Guestbook</font></a>]</font></td> <td width="25%" height="1" nowrap><p align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style"><font size="2">[ </font><a href="frames7.htm" target="_top"><font size="2">Previous Guestbooks</font></a><font size="2"> ]</font></font></td> <td width="26%" height="1" nowrap><p align="center"><font face="Bookman Old Style"><font size="2">[ </font><a href="survey.htm" target="main"><font size="2">This site on CD-ROM</font></a><font size="2"> ]</font></font></td> </tr> </table> <hr noshade size="4" color="#CC0000" align="right" width="95%"> <div align="right"> <table border="0" cellpadding="6" width="95%"> <tr> <td width="217" valign="top"><font face="Bookman Old Style"><b><a href="janek.htm" target="main">Jan Popiel</a>  <br> &<a href="slawomir.htm" target="main"><br> Slawomir Popiel</a>  </b></font> </td> <td width="666" valign="middle"> <p align="right"><font face="Bookman Old Style">This site was created on <strong>June 15, 1998</strong> and updated on <strong>May 11, 2007<br> </strong> Copyright © 1998. Jan Popiel & Slawomir Popiel.</font></td> </tr> </table> </div>  </body>