Pacta conventa

The pacta conventa ( German: agreed conditions ) was 1573-1764 and in 1791 a central constitutional document of Poland-Lithuania.

Development

Complementing the Articuli Henriciani they were between the Polish nation representing nobility, the szlachta, and the newly elected king always re- closed and contained the authorization for the respective government program of the monarch. Blurred over time, the differences between the two documents.

The first version of the agreement concluded with King Henry of Valois, dealt, inter alia, with the training of Polish students in Paris, the repayment of the debt of his pre-predecessor Sigismund II Augustus, the preservation of the Polish- French alliance and the continuation of hostilities against Tsar Ivan of Russia.