The first mention of Stopnica (known then as Stobnica) comes from the 12th century, but a gord, or Slavic settlement, had existed here earlier. According to Jan Długosz’s chronicle Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae, in 1103 the parish priest of Stopnica, Reverend Baldwin, became the Bishop of Kraków.
The first mention of Stopnica (then known as Stobnica) appears in the 12th century, but a settlement, or Slavic village, existed here earlier. According to Jan Długosz’s chronicle, Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae, in 1103 the parish priest of Stopnica, Reverend Baldwin, became the Bishop of Kraków.