The Królewiec Voivodeship[a] was a short-lived voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, with capital in the city of Królewiec (now Kaliningrad, Russia), that existed during the Thirteen Years' War. It was established by king Casimir IV Jagiellon in April 1454, following the incorporation of the city and the surrounding area into Poland, from the territory of the State of the Teutonic Order.[1][2] Following the capitulation of Polish forces in the battle of Kneiphof, on 14 February 1455, the voivodeship fall under the control of the Teutonic forces.[3] The voivodeship formally ceased to exists following the signing of the Second Peace of Thorn, on 19 October 1466, which affirmed its area under the ownership of the State of the Teutonic Order,[4] as a part and fief of Poland.[5]
| Królewiec Voivodeship | |||||||||
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| Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland | |||||||||
| 1454–1466 | |||||||||
| Capital | Królewiec (de facto 1454–1455; de jure 1454–1466) Knipawa (de facto 1455) none (de facto 1455–1466) | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| Voivode | |||||||||
• 1454–1455 | Ścibor Bażyński | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | April 1454 | ||||||||
| 14 February 1455 | |||||||||
| 19 October 1466 | |||||||||
| Contained within | |||||||||
| • Country |  Crown of the Kingdom of Poland | ||||||||
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Government
editThe region was governed by the voivode. The only voivode of the voivodeship Ścibor Bażyński, who was in the office from April 1454 to 1455.[6][7] The last mention of Ścibor, that refers to him as the voivode of Królewiec, comes from 12 April 1455.[7] Due to the ongoing fighting in the region during the Thirteen Years' War, and later its occupation, the voivodeship did not have an organized administration, nor appointed the new voivode after 1455.[6]
Citations
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edit- ^ Zdzisław Kaczmarczyk, Bogusław Leśnodorski: Historia państwa i prawa Polski, vol. 2: od połowy XV wieku do r. 1795, 4th edition. Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1971, p. 161–162.
- ^ Wojciech Hejnosz: Przyczynki do dziejów ustrojowych Prus i Pomorza: o zaginionych województwach pruskich: królewieckim, elbląskim i niderlandzkim. In: Zapiski Towarzystwa Naukowego w Toruniu, vol. 15, book 3–4, p. 10, 1950.
- ^ Marian Biskup: Trzynastoletnia wojna z Zakonem Krzyżackim, Oświęcim, 2014, p. 378. ISBN 978-83-7889-288-5.
- ^ "II pokój toruński (19 października 1466 r.)". historia.org.pl (in Polish).
- ^ Górski, Karol (1949). Związek Pruski i poddanie się Prus Polsce: zbiór tekstów źródłowych (in Polish). Poznań: Instytut Zachodni. pp. 96–97, 214–215.
- ^ a b Krzysztof Mikulski: Urzędnicy Prus Królewskich XV–XVIII wieku. Wrocław–Warsaw–Kraków: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1990, p. 12, 94. ISBN 83-04-03523-5.
- ^ a b Paweł Czaplewski: Senatorowie świeccy, podskarbiowie i starostowie Prus Królewskich 1454–1772. In: Roczniki Towarzystwa Naukowego w Toruniu. vol. XXVI–XXVIII (1919–1921), p. 8, 1921. Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu.