Malbork Voivodeship
| Malbork Voivodeship Województwo malborskie Palatinatus Marienburgensis | |||||||||||
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| Voivodeship ofPoland¹ Part ofRoyal PrussiaandGreater Polandprovinces | |||||||||||
| 1466–1772 | |||||||||||
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 Malbork Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | |||||||||||
| Capital | Malbork | ||||||||||
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| • Coordinates | 54°02′21″N19°01′39″E/ 54.039205°N 19.027598°E | ||||||||||
• | 2,096 km2(809 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
•Prussianuprising | 1454 | ||||||||||
| 9 October 1466 | |||||||||||
| 1569 | |||||||||||
| 1772 | |||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | Counties:4 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Poland | ||||||||||
| ¹ Voivodeship of thePolish Crownin the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth;Voivodeship of theKingdom of Polandbefore 1569. | |||||||||||
TheMalbork Voivodeship(Polish:Województwo malborskie), afterPartitions of Polandalso referred to as theMalbork Land(Polish:Ziemia malborska), was a unit of administrative division and local government in theKingdom of Polandfrom 1454/1466 until thePartitions of Polandin 1772–1795. Its capital was atMalbork.
Together with thePomeranianandChełmnoVoivodeships and thePrince-Bishopric of Warmiait formed the historical province ofRoyal Prussia,and with several more voivodeships it formed part of theGreater Poland Province.
History[edit]
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After theTeutonic Knightsduring the 13th century had conquered thePrussianterritories and incorporated them into theOrder's State,the castle ofMarienburgserved as the seat of theGrand Masters.Following the 1410Battle of Grunwald,the Knights once again could withstand the PolishSiege of Marienburg.In 1440, various cities, towns and nobles from the area co-formed the anti-TeutonicPrussian Confederation.[1]In 1454, the organisation led an uprising against the rule of the Teutonic Knights, and asked KingCasimir IV of Polandto include the region within the Kingdom of Poland, to which the King agreed and signed the act of incorporation of the region to Poland in March 1454 inKraków,[2]which sparked theThirteen Years' War.The cities ofElbląg,Malbork,SztumandTolkmickowere members of the Confederation,[3]whereasDzierzgońalso sided with Poland in the war.[4]The Teutonic Knights had to withdraw from Malbork toKönigsbergand after their final defeat lost the castle and the surrounding territory in the 1466Second Peace of Thorn.
KingCasimir IV Jagiellonof Poland established the Malbork Voivodeship, including the towns ofElbing(Elbląg),Stuhm(Sztum) andChristburg(Kiszpork/Dzierzgoń). Since the 1569Union of Lublinthe Lands of thePolish Crownwere part of the largerPolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.Malbork Castlewas occupied twice by troops of theSwedish Empire:during theThirty Years' War1626–1629 and again from 1656 to 1660 during theDeluge.In 1772, the voivodeship was annexed byPrussiain theFirst Partition of Polandand became part of the newly established Province ofWest Prussiathe next year.
Zygmunt Glogerin his monumental book Historical Geography of the Lands of Old Poland provides this description of Malbork Voivodeship:
"The smallest of three voivodeships of Polish Prussia, it was divided into four counties: Sztum, Kiszpork, Elbląg and Malbork. Localstarostasresided atKiszpork,Sztum,Tolkmicko,and other locations.Sejmiksand courts were not located at Malbork, but at Sztum, which itself was governed by the starosta of Kiszpork. At sejmiks, local nobility elected eight deputies to the PrussianSejm,e.g. two from each county (...) Malbork Voivodeship’s coat of arms was almost identical asChełmno Voivodeship's, with differences in color of the eagle. The Prussian Sejm took place alternatively at Malbork andGrudziądz".
Cities[edit]
The largest city of the voivodeship wasElbląg,which as one of the largest and most influential cities of entire Poland enjoyed voting rights during theRoyal free elections.[5]Other cities wereMalbork,Sztum,Kiszpork,andTolkmicko,and all cities in the voivodeship wereroyal cities of Poland.[6]
Administration[edit]
Voivodeship Governor (Wojewoda) seat:
Voivodes list:
- Ścibor Bażyński/Stibor (Tiburcius) von Baysen 15 June 1467 – 1480
- Mikołaj Bażyński/Niklas von Baysen 23 February 1481 – 27 March 1501
- Maciej Raba21 August 1512 – 1546
- Achacy Czema1546 – 24 May 1564
- Fabian Czema1566–1580
- Fabian Czema (younger)1581-22 August 1605
- Jerzy Kostka1605–1611
- Stanisław Działyński1611–1615
- Jan Wejher1615–1618
- Stanisław Konarski1618–1625
- Samuel Żaliński3 November 1625 – 6 October 1629
- Samuel Konarski30 November 1629 – 1641
- Mikołaj Wejher11 October 1641 – 20 May 1643
- Jakub Wejher20 May 1643 – 21 February 1657
- Stanisław Działyński30 March 1657 – 1677
- Jan Ignacy Bąkowski1677–1679
- Jan Gniński1679
- Franciszek Jan Bieliński1681–1685
- Ernest Denhoff1685–1693
- Władysław Łoś1694
- Jan Jerzy Przebendowski17 September 1697 – 9 February 1703
- Piotr Kczewski9 February 1703 – 20 November 1722
- Piotr Przebendowski21 November 1722 – 1755
- Jakub Działyński27 May 1756 – 17 September 1772
Regional council (sejmik generalny):
The Voivodeship was divided into fourpowiats(counties or administrative divisions):
- Sztum County,(Powiat Sztumski),
- KiszporkCounty, (Powiat Kiszporski),
- Elbląg County,(Powiat Elbląski),
- Malbork County,(Powiat Malborski).
References[edit]
- ^Górski 1949,p. XXXI.
- ^Górski 1949,pp. 59–60.
- ^Górski 1949,pp. XXXI, XXXVII–XXXVIII.
- ^Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom II(in Polish). Warszawa. 1881. p. 281.
{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^Polska encyklopedja szlachecka, Tom I(in Polish). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Kultury Historycznej. 1935. p. 42.
- ^Prusy Królewskie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany(in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut HistoriiPolskiej Akademii Nauk.2021. p. 1.
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Bibliography[edit]
- Górski, Karol (1949).Związek Pruski i poddanie się Prus Polsce: zbiór tekstów źródłowych(in Polish). Poznań: Instytut Zachodni.
