Peace of Brest (1435)
The Peace of Brest (also known as the Eternal Peace of Brest ) was a peace treaty concluded on December 31, 1435 in the Kujavian city of Brest between the Teutonic Order and Władysław III. (Poland and Hungary) and Sigismund I (Lithuania) on the other hand.
meaning
The concluded contract ended the decades-long fighting between the Teutonic Order and Poland-Lithuania following the establishment of the Polish-Lithuanian personal union in 1386 . The peace essentially confirmed the borders as they were laid down in the Peace of Lake Melno in 1422 . Just as in 1422, the estates had to guarantee peace: the treaty is a step on the path of the Prussian estates in Prussia towards institutionalization . He deprived the order of the opportunity, which has been used again and again in recent decades, to benefit from the conflicts within the Jagiellonian dynasty and to promote the dissolution of the Polish-Lithuanian Union. Finally, objections by the Pope or the Roman-German king to the treaty were expressly excluded, which fueled the rivalries within the order in the years to come.
