Treaty of Melno

The peace of Melnosee or Meldensee is a closed on September 27, 1422 Peace Treaty between the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania, on the one side, and the Teutonic Knights on the other. It is named after the nearby at Mełno Melnosee in Polish powiat Grudziądzki.

Parties

The peace treaty was concluded between

  • Paul of Rusdorf, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
  • Eberhard von Saunsheim, German Master of the Teutonic Order

And

  • Władysław II Jagiello, King of Poland
  • Vytautas, Grand Duke of Lithuania
  • Janusz I. starszy and Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia.

He finished by 1410, in spite of the First Peace of Thorn of the year 1411, repeatedly arisen acts of war. The German Order had to accept cessions of territory, the territory of Nieszawa to the King of Poland, as well as low Lithuania to the Grand Duke of Lithuania fell, while the king renounced by Poland to the claims on Pomerania, Kulmerland and Michel Auer country.

In this contract, which defined the boundaries more accurately, also an alternative name for the city of Memel and Klaipėda was documented: et castrum Memel in Samogitico Cleupeda appellatum ( in German: ... and the Memel Castle, in Samogitian Cleupeda called ). In particular, the boundary was north of the river Memel set up to the city of Memel, which was to endure until after the First World War.

Regarding the Prussian internal politics, the participation of representatives of estates in the peace negotiations proved to be significant, since the Prussian estates henceforth claimed a kind of right of control over the compliance of the final until 1426 sealed peace treaty.

Stable limits

About 500 years separated the specified limits on Melnosee East Prussia in the north, east and south of its neighbors. Thus, these demarcations of the oldest and most stable counted in Europe; only the Pyrenees border between France and Spain is older. The ethnic ratios did not change. The then empty space had been settled over the years, with Germans. As the Great Plague ( Prussia) devastated the province, arrived in the northeast also isolated Lithuanians into the country. Masuria was settled by Protestants who left the Duchy of Masovia because of the Counter-Reformation and had severed all bridges to the former home; but they received their Polish dialect until the 19th century.

1923 occupied Lithuania with regard to the Lithuanian minority Memel.

Paul von Rusdorf Janusz I of Warsaw Peace of Thorn (1411) Klaipėda Castle Neman River People Integrated Authority File
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