 In 1241 the village was raided by the Mongols (see Mongol invasion of Poland), and in 1247 it was destroyed by the army of Prince Konrad Mazowiecki.In 1365 King Kazimierz Wielki granted it town rights, and at that time Kunów was the seat of a parish whose area was .The town belonged to Lesser Poland’s Sandomierz Voivodeship.