The article presents the collecting activity of Nicolaus Strosberg during the final years of the pontificate of Gregory XI and the early years of the rule of the Roman pope Urban VI. Strosberg was nominated by a cleric of the papal chamber for only one occasion but managed to take over the Polish collector during the time when the office of collector general was held by Peter son of Stephen. He was the first collector general since the beginning of the Polish collectory who had been a member of the local clergy. Because of his ruthlessness in executing the papal debts, his activities were not very popular in the church province of Gniezno. Unlike his predecessors, Nicolaus Strosberg resided not in Cracow but in Wroclaw. For transferring the money to Rome he no longer used the merchants of Cracow but cooperated with Italian bankers. Accused of conversion of funds, he was revoked from office and forced to cover the debts for the papal chamber from his own beneficial income. The loss of the collector's office did not stop Strosberg's ecclesiastical career in Poland. He later became an official and a vicar general of the archbishop of Gniezno.
The author presents the stages of the attempt of the Angevins to win the Polish thone during the times of Kazimierz the Great. It is assumed that their rights to the succession after Kazimierz the Great in case of his death without male issue appeared with the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter of Wladyslaw the Short, to Charles Robert, king of Hungary. The Hungarian royal couple kept reminding about their rights to international public. In 1340, after the expedition to Ruthenia, Kazimierz the Great intended to ensure Hungarian support for his eastern policy and made a succession agreement with Charles Robert, in which he promised the Polish throne to his son in case of his death without male heir. The agreement determined Polish-Hungarian relations. In 1350 Louis the Great attempted to force a new interpretation of that agreement in connection with the Hungarian pretenses to Ruthenia. In response to Hungarian proposals, Kazimierz the Great appealed to the people and called a rally to Sulejów in May 1350. From that moment the political elites of Little Poland assumed real control of the succession to the Polish throne and their representatives negotiated the conditions on which Louis the Great would become the king of Poland.
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