Pietati proximum

With the Bull of Rieti Pietati proximum confirmed in 1234 Pope Gregory IX. the Teutonic Knights rule over the Kulmerland east of the lower Vistula, as well as all other conquered by the Teutonic Knights in Prussia lands ( " to eternal and absolute ownership "). The German Order should this case be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the Pope, but no further Lehnsabhängigkeit. The Bull of Rieti presented the written record made ​​of the Teutonic Order previously in August and September 1230, oral commitment dar. The Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Hermann von Salza had stubbornly insisted on a written resignation.

The Bull of Rieti from August 3, 1234 corresponds to the Golden Bull of Rimini in 1226 by the German Emperor and the Treaty of Kruschwitz 1230 the Polish Duke Konrad of Mazovia.

Repeated on July 26, 1257, Pope Alexander IV, the Bull of Rieti.