Koenigsberg Voivodeship

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The Koenigsberg Voivodeship was an administrative unit within the Kingdom of Poland from 1454 to 1466.

history

After the city of Königsberg and the surrounding areas had also submitted to the King of Poland as a member of the Prussian League in 1454, the latter appointed a voivode for Königsberg, Stibor von Baysen . After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, the area returned to the state of the Teutonic Order .

literature

  • Gottfried Lengnich : History of the Prussian lands of royal Polish proportion. Danzig 1729. pp. 4-6 .
  • Peter Baumgart, Jürgen Schmädeke: Estates and state formation in Brandenburg-Prussia . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1983. p. 134 .