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- Title
ALEKSANDRO JOGAILAIČIO PASTANGOS SUDARYTI UNIJĄ (PAGAL SUSIRAŠINĖJIMĄ SU KROKUVOS MIESTO TARYBA).
- Authors
Starzyński, Marcin
- Abstract
The article is a critical commentary on three published letters of the Jagiellon brothers: Alexander. Wladysław, and Sigismund that were sent after the death of John I Albert to the Krakow City Council. Alexander and Sigismund sought support for themselves in the approaching Polish royal elections while Władysław supported Sigismundÿs candidacy. The published letters not only supplement the source material published in Fryderyk Papée's publication Akta Aleksandra but also shed new light on the co-operation of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania concerning the renewal and tightening of the ties of both states at the turn of the sixteenth century. The letter from Grand Duke Alexander contains an interesting fragment which mentions a very recently renewed agreement, which was confirmed by a secret oath and concerned the election of a new ruler in the kingdom and the grand duchy in case of the death of the king of Poland or the grand duke of Lithuania, according to which the grand duke would occupy the throne of Poland and vice versa, the king of Poland would occupy the grand duke's throne. The article illuminates the significance of city representatives during the election of John I Albert. It analyses in detail two letters from Alexander Jagiellon, in which he mentions the above agreements. It also raises the hypothesis that Alexander mentions affirmations of actual agreements, which might have been concluded during the last years of John Albert's rule (perhaps secret clauses of the 1499 negotiations?). The provisions, which shaped the election of a new ruler in Poland and Lithuania and which Alexander Jagiellon mentioned in letters at the beginning of his efforts to obtain the Polish crown, doubtlessly created a completely new political quality compared to all the earlier Polish -- Lithuanian and Lithuanian -- Polish agreements. It is likely that further research of the surviving documentary legacy of Alexander Jagiellon will allow the hypothesis put forward here to be developed.
- Subjects
POLAND; LITHUANIA; JAGELLON dynasty; REIGN of Alexander, Poland, 1501-1506; REIGN of Sigismund I, Poland, 1506-1548; REIGN of John I Albert, Poland, 1492-1501
- Publication
Year-Book of Lithuanian History / Lietuvos Istorijos Metraštis, 2006, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
0202-3342
- Publication type
Article