Published: 2007-12-30

Teutonic issue versus Casimir the Great’s East policy after 1343

Dariusz Wróbel

Abstract

The following paper focuses on the analysis of a few episodes connected with Polish East politics (mostly relationships with Lithuania) after 1343 in which the functioning of the Teutonic problem is also observable. In Polish literature on the subject resignation from the assumption that until the end of his reign Casimir attempted more or less directly to question the Treaty of Kalisz and regain Pomerania enables the interpretation of many well-known facts in the new light. The short-term Polish-Lithuanian affiliation from the mid-fourties was not aimed against The Teutonic Order. In the end of fourties Casimir took complex actions so as to undertake new expansion to Russia and in this context his actions in reference to the Teutonic Order were set. The turning point in the relationships of that time was the year 1355 and the Order’s opposing to the promoted by the Polish king international anti-Lithuanian crusade under Polish auspices. Polish diplomatic actions of those times cannot only be reduced to anti-Teutonic crisis, which cannot be interpreted as an intention of initiation revindication policy. The collapse of “the new Lithuanian policy” wormed the Polish-Teutonic relationships, which revealed itself in the kings visit in Malbork, probably at the end of 1365. In the light of the above comments and findings in the Eastern policy of the last Piast one should rather see very important alternative to policy of revindication, which in the realia of those times had no chances of success than an element of preparation to a general confrontation with the Teutonic Order.

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Wróbel, D. (2007). Teutonic issue versus Casimir the Great’s East policy after 1343. Średniowiecze Polskie I Powszechne, 4, 136–187. https://doi.org/10.31261/SPiP.2007.04.08

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