Treaty of Soldin (1309)
In the Treaty of Soldin from 13. September 1309 to Soldin acquired the German Order of Waldemar Brandenburg weight, Margrave of Brandenburg, for 10,000 silver marks its based on older Lehnsrechten claims on Polish Duchy of Pomerania . In fact, with this treaty, the Duchy of Pomerania was divided between two German feudal states in the rights of the Polish crown . The Pomeranian countries around Schlawe , Stolp , Rügenwalde and Bütow went to the Margraves of Brandenburg, the rest of them with the main fortress of Danzig went to the Teutonic Order.
In the 12th century constituted two duchies of the south-east Baltic Sea that Duchy of Pomerania of grasping , and the eastern of it located Duchy of Pomerania, which by the Samborid dominated. In surviving documents, both lines emphasized their mutual relationship and both lines included the griffin in the coat of arms, which in Pomerania, for example , has been confirmed by the city arms of Dirschau until modern times . After Mestwin II died without a male heir, Przemysł II , Duke of Greater Poland , took over the Duchy of Pomerania, who shortly thereafter was crowned King of Poland. The legal basis for the takeover was the Treaty of Kempen of February 15, 1282.
After the murder of King Przemysł II, the Duke of Kujawy, Władysław I Ellenlang , succeeded him in Pomerania and Greater Poland.
The Teutonic Order had been recruited by Władysław I. Ellenlang against promises to pay, because he was supposed to help him in the dispute over the succession with Waldemar over Pomerania and Danzig. The Order also successfully defended Gdansk Castle against the Brandenburgers, but Władysław did not keep his promises to pay. In order to keep themselves harmless, the order then occupied Danzig and the associated area in 1308. In order to legitimize the conquest , the order subsequently bought from Waldemar the claims of the Brandenburg margraves to Pomeranians.
In the Peace Treaty of Kalisch in 1343, the Polish King Casimir the Great recognized Pomerania including Danzig in the possession of the Teutonic Order State . In 1339, Grand Master Dietrich von Altenburg also submitted a deed of mortgage to the Margrave of Brandenburg from Friedrich II. In 1231 for examination to a papal investigative commission . However, this deed of lending referred only to the Duchy of Pomerania the Griffin and was always contested by the Dukes of Pomerania.
Casimir III took the opportunity to make no further claims on Pomeranian or the Kulmer Land and the Michelauer Land . In return, he received the Kujawy and the Dobrin region, which were conquered by the Teutonic Knights between 1329 and 1332 . The peace agreement also had to be confirmed in seven cities: Poznan and Kalish in Greater Poland , Leslau and Kujawisch-Brest in Kujawia and Krakow , Sandomir and New Sandez in Lesser Poland . Two provisions of the Kalisch treaty, the deletion of Pomeranian from the title of the Polish king and a payment of compensation, were subsequently not implemented.
The Ordensburg Marie Burg was after the capture Pommerellen 1309 main residence of the Grand Master of the Order to 1456th
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. z. B. Johann Karl Kretzschmer : History and description of the monasteries in Pommerellen . Volume 1: The Cistercian Abbey Oliva , Danzig 1847, p. 21 ff.
- ↑ K. Zielińska: Zjednoczenie Pomorza Gdańskiego z Wielkopolską pod koniec XIII wieku. Umowa kępińska 1282 r. , Toruń 1968
- ^ Jacob Caro : History of Poland. Second part (1300-1386). Perthes, Cottbus 1886, p. 27, footnote 2).
- ↑ In his royal title, despite the Treaty of Kalisch, even after 1343 he continued to claim as King of Poland to be the only legitimate lord and heir of "Pomerania": Rex Polonie et Russie, nec non Cracovie, Sandomirie, Siradie, Lancicie, Cuiavie, et Pomeranieque Terrarum et Ducatuum Dominus et Heres (Uwe Ziegler: Cross and Sword: The History of the Teutonic Order , p. 126).