Treaty of Arnswalde

The Treaty of Arnswalde closed on April 1, 1269 the Ascanians Margrave Johann II, Otto IV and Conrad I to the II feuding with his brother Wartislaw Duke Mestwin II in the on the road Kuestrin - located Gdansk Neumark Burgort Arnswalde. They won by lehnsherrschaftliche rights in parts of Pomerania ( with castle Schwetz ) as well as direct deposit rule the country Belgard.

This expansion policy of the Marquis made ​​against the background that the Ascanians the area of Pomerania had been given by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II on the occasion of a fief, held in Ravenna in the December 1231 Reichstag and that this investiture repeated on January 8, 1295 in Mühlhausen been. The investiture of Brandenburg Pomerania was however denied by most of the Pomeranian dukes until the 16th century.

The consideration for this typical of the pragmatic strategy of expansion of the Marquises contract business was to vorzufinanzierenden marriage of the daughter Mestwins, Catherine, with Prince Pribislaw II of Parchim Rich Mountain and in other Alimentierungen of non-performing has become as a result of its tangled politics Duke of Pomerania. From Askanischer view of the treaty created an important prerequisite for a subsequent implementation of investiture were made by Frederick II.

By bypassing the territories of the Duchy of Pomerania and Pomerania Diocese of the coast of the Baltic Basin could be achieved. Although they lost in 1272 occupied the year before Danzig again Mestwin II, but took this in 1273 in the Treaty on the Dragebrücke of them parts of his land to Stolp and Schlawe again fief in order to throw final with the Brandenburgern from 1278, and it enter into an alliance with Great Poland.

The Brandenburg was only through an alliance with the Pomeranian noble family of Swenzonen in the years 1307-1317 Men over 35 km Baltic coast to the immediate neighboring the Baltic Sea.