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The epoque of king Casimir Jagiellonczyk was a period of splendid development of the Polish-Lithuanian state, mainly due to regaining of Danzig (Gdansk). In the time, Godzislaw from Gorzyce, village of undetermined location (there were 13 villages named Gorzyce in Poland), son of a poor Polish peasant, made a career. He was born about 1410 and in 1428 entered the Cracow University, the only in the country at that time. Nobody knows where (probably in Italy) and for whose money he got university degrees, including doctor degree of medicine. In the forties of 15th century he was such a famous physician in Cracow, that the patients came to him even from Great Poland. Godzislaw was enobled by king Casimir in 1456, when he already was a king's physician and a priest. He probably died in Cracow about 1470, twenty years before the king, who was some 15 years younger.