Bydgoszcz Treaty

The Treaty of Bromberg was a treaty concluded on November 6, 1657 in Bromberg between the Polish King John II Casimir and Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia . The contract confirmed the agreements made in the Wehlau contract.

In addition, it was newly agreed:

• An "Eternal Alliance" between the two rulers.
• Brandenburg-Prussia received the Lands Lauenburg and Bütow as hereditary fiefdoms.
• Brandenburg-Prussia received the Starostei Draheim as a pledge against payment of a pledge.
• In the case of extinction of the Brandenburg-Prussian line of the Hohenzollern in the male line should Duchy of Prussia to the King of Poland fall behind.
• When a new Prussian duke was enthroned, the Prussian estates had to pay homagium eventuale to the Polish king and parliament .

Course of development towards the sovereignty of Prussia

Prussia 1654-1660

• January 17, 1656 Treaty of Königsberg
• June 23, 1656 Treaty of Marienburg
• June 28-30, 1656 Battle of Warsaw
• November 20, 1656 Treaty of Labiau
• September 19, 1657 Treaty of Wehlau
• November 6, 1657 Treaty of Bromberg
• May 3, 1660 Treaty of Oliva

literature

• Heinz Duchhardt , Bogdan Wachowiak : To the sovereignty of the Duchy of Prussia. The Treaty of Wehlau 1657 . Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 978-3-88304-125-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor von Mörner : Kurbrandenburg State Treaties from 1601 to 1700 . Berlin 1867, pp. 220-227.
2. ^ Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel : History of the Prussian State . Part II: From 1640 to 1688 , Hamburg 1837, pp. 137–138 and p. 297