Treaty of Arnswalde

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The Treaty of Arnswalde was concluded on April 1, 1269 between Duke Mestwin II of Pomerania on the one hand and Margraves Johann II , Otto IV and Conrad I of Brandenburg on the other.

With the treaty, the sovereign Duke Mestwin II took his part in the Duchy of Pomerania as a pro forma fiefdom from the Brandenburg margraves . He also gave them the land of Belgard as a direct pledge. In return, the margraves undertook to marry off the daughter of Duke Mestwin II, Katharina, in particular to take over the costs for this. The margraves also undertook to give Duke Mestwin II 100 marks of silver or 100 measures of grain annually.

As a result, Princess Katharina was married to Prince Pribislaw II of Parchim-Richenberg. But the rest of the treaty remained only an episode in the unsteady politics of the Pomeranian duke. The Brandenburgers occupied Danzig in 1270 , whereupon Duke Mestwin II. Help with Duke Boleslaw VI. from Wielkopolska and with whose help drove the Brandenburgers, his formal suzerane , back from Danzig. Nevertheless, took Duke Mestwin II. In 1273 with the Treaty on the Dragebrücke now his country Schlawe , Darłowo and Stolp by the Margrave John II. And Otto IV. Fief, which previous Lehnsverträge were lifted. In the Pomeranian succession dispute that broke out after the death of Duke Mestwin II in December 1294, the Treaty of Arnswalde, which no later than the Treaty of Kempen 1282 lost its legal validity, formed the basis of claims of the Brandenburg margraves. Margrave Waldemar gave up this claim in 1309 when he sold the Duchy of Pomerania or his claim to the Teutonic Order in the Treaty of Soldin .

The Treaty of Arnswalde is also the first documentary mention of Arnswalde . The place in Neumark , written in the document “Arnswolde”, was probably only a fortified place at that time, so it was not yet a town.

Document text

  • Max Perlbach (Ed.): Pomeranian document book . Bertling, Danzig 1881–1916, No. 238. ( Online )

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Bruno Schumacher : History of East and West Prussia . 7th edition. Verlag Weidlich, Würzburg 1987, p. 44.
  2. ↑ Richard Roepell : Geschichte Polens , Perthes, Hamburg 1840, p. 552 ff. And footnote 31 .
  3. ↑ K. Zielińska: Zjednoczenie Pomorza Gdańskiego z Wielkopolską pod koniec XIII wieku. Umowa kępińska 1282 r. , Toruń 1968
  4. ^ Ingo Materna , Wolfgang Ribbe (ed.): Brandenburg history. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002508-5 , p. 175.
  5. ↑ Werner Vogel : Arnswalde . In: Gerd Heinrich (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 10: Berlin and Brandenburg. With Neumark and Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 311). 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-520-31103-8 , p. 419.