The Third Mongol invasion of Poland was carried out by Talabuga Khan and Nogai Khan in 1287–1288.[6] As in the second invasion, its purpose was to loot Lesser Poland, and to prevent Duke Leszek II the Black from interfering in Hungarian and Ruthenian affairs. The invasion was also part of the hostilities between Poland and Ruthenia; in 1281, the Poles had defeated a Mongol force near Goslicz which had entered Duke Leszek's territory in support of Lev I.[7]
^Jackson, p.205: "According to the fourteenth-century Vita of St. Kynga (Kunigunde, widow of Boleslav the Chaste), they were in the country from Dec. 6 to early February".
^Krakowski, p. 212: "Liczebność wojsk tatarskich i ich przymusowych sojuszników sięgała 30 000 jazdy, z tego armia Telebogi, łącznie z Rusinami, miała około 20 000, a armia Nogaja około 10 000 ludzi."
^Krakowski, p. 212: "Wojska Leszka Czarnego liczyły zaś około 5 000 jazdy i 10 000 piechoty."
^Stone, Zofia. Genghis Khan: A Biography. Section: Third Invasion of Poland.