The Treaty of Kruszwica (
German
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: ''Vertrag von Kruschwitz''), signed on 16 June 1230, was concluded between
Konrad I of Masovia
Konrad I of Masovia (ca. 1187/88 – 31 August 1247), from the Polish Piast dynasty, was the sixth Duke of Masovia and Kuyavia from 1194 until his death as well as High Duke of Poland from 1229 to 1232 and again from 1241 to 1243.
Life
Konrad was ...
and the
Teutonic Knights
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic Order, is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was formed to aid Christians on ...
. According to this agreement, the
Duke of Masovia
Duke of Masovia ( pl, Książę Mazowsza) was a title born by the sons and descendants of the Polish Duke Bolesław III Wrymouth. In accordance with the last will and testament of Bolesław, upon his death his lands were divided into four to five ...
transferred to the Teutonic Order the
lands of Chełmno. In addition, Konrad I would recognize the
independence
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of the
Teutonic Order
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic Order, is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was formed to aid Christians on ...
and its rule over all other
conquests made in Prussia and beyond the
.
The text is only known by later references, as the original document is not preserved. According to the historian Max Perlbach (1848–1921), the Knights had forged it to create a legal basis for their
secular possessions, however Perlbach's thesis has been seriously called into question by modern historians.
[Dariusz Sikorski, 'Neue Erkenntnisse ueber das Kruschwitzer Privileg' in ''Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung'', 51 (2002), p. 317-350]
References
Literature
* C. A. Lückerath: Treaty of Kruschwitz. In
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages Volume 5. Stuttgart 1991, , Spalte 1553.
Kruschwitz
1230 in Europe
13th century in the State of the Teutonic Order
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