Bull from Rieti
With the Bull of Rieti Pietati proximum confirmed in 1234 of Pope Gregory IX. the Teutonic Order the rule over the Kulmer Land east of the lower Vistula, as well as over all other lands conquered by the Teutonic Order in Prussia ("for eternal and free possession"). The Teutonic Order should be subject exclusively to the sovereignty of the Pope, but not subject to any further feudal dependence . The bull of Rieti represented the written record of an oral promise made to the Teutonic Order in August and September 1230. The Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Hermann von Salza , had stubbornly insisted on a written record.
The bull of Rieti of August 3, 1234 corresponds with the gold bull of Rimini 1226 of the German emperor and the Treaty of Kruschwitz 1230 of the Polish duke Konrad of Mazovia .
On July 26, 1257 , Pope Alexander IV repeated and confirmed the Rieti Bull.
Web links
- Publications on the bull of Rieti in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
- Bulle von Rieti 1234, in: Herder Institute (Marburg) (ed.): Documents and materials on East Central European history. Topic module "German Order and Prussia in the Middle Ages", edit. by Marcus Wüst. online language versions German / Latin (accessed on January 23, 2019)