Peace of Bautzen

The Peace of Bautzen was a peace treaty between the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Henry II and the Polish ruler Bolesław I the Brave.

The Peace of Bautzen, the unexpectedly on January 30, 1018 at Bautzen came at the insistence of Emperor Henry II concluded on the Ortenbourg, for 15 years ended waged wars with each other and at the same time, the Alliance, which Henry II had 1003 closed with the pagan Lutizen. He meant by unfulfilled hopes that both sides had tied to the Peace of Merseburg 1013, the return to a common, against the Byzantine Eastern Roman Empire - oriented policy based on the concept of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III. the restorations ( Renovatio ) imperii Romanorum, recovery ( renewal) old rights or possessions of the (Western) Roman Empire.

Boleslaw kept to 1031 lehnsfrei the dispute between the parties Mark Lausitz and the country's Milzener in what is now Upper Lusatia. In addition, he established dynastic ties with the Ekkehardinern by - immediately after the conclusion of peace - on February 3, 1018 Oda, the youngest daughter of the Margrave of Meissen, Ekkehard I. married.

In the summer of 1018 Bolesław won with German and Hungarian auxiliary troops for a short time control of Kiev, the center of Kievan Rus, from where he the Byzantine emperor Basil II threatened as a partner of the German - Roman Empire from the north, for the possession of Southern Italy with Emperor Henry II was in dispute.

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