Statute of Nieszawa
Statut von Nieszawa , ( [ɲɛˈʃava] , Polish statuty nieszawskie , also privilege of Nieszawa ), were various privileges that the Polish nobility, the so-called Szlachta , from King Casimir IV. Before the war against the Teutonic Order in Nieszawa (Nessau) in 1454 at Thorn . Issued separately for individual provinces, they comprised the statute of Cerkwica for Greater Poland , issued a few months earlier, and the so-called Petita von Opoki for Lesser Poland .
In the text for Wielkopolska and the Sieradz countryside , the king undertook, among other things, to only enact new laws and to call up the army of knights - general contingent (pospolite ruszenie) - only with the consent of the landscape assemblies ( sejmiki ).
The privilege for Małopolska strengthened the position of the nobility by tightening the serfdom of the peasants , revoking the Jewish rights issued in 1453 , declaring the jurisdiction of the aristocratic regional courts for city citizens , granting the regions a right to participate in the election of court officials and abolishing the salt tax. In 1496 King Johann Albrecht conjured up a uniform text of the statutes covering all of Poland. The statutes of Nieszawa opened the way to the formation of the bicameral system and thus to the Polish aristocratic democracy.
literature
- Lorenz Hein: Italian Protestants and their influence on the Reformation in Poland during the two decades before the Sandomir Consensus 1570 , Brill, Leiden 1974, ISBN 978-9-00403-893-6 , pp. 10-12
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lorenz Hein: Italian Protestants and their influence on the Reformation in Poland during the two decades before the Sandomir Consensus 1570 , Brill, Leiden 1974, ISBN 978-9-00403-893-6 , pp. 10-12