Treaty of Soldin (1309)
In the Treaty of Soldin from September 13, 1309 to Soldin acquired the German Order of Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg, for 10,000 silver marks Brandenburg weight his claims at issue in the Duchy of Pomerania. In fact, was divided over with this Agreement, the Polish Duchy of Pomerania to the land rights of Władysław I the Elbow- between two German feudal states. The Pomeranian countries to Schlawe, Stolp, Rügenwalde and Buetow went to the pommerellische noble family of Swenzonen as Brandenburg Lehnsnehmer, the more radical of the major feasts of Danzig was recognized by the Teutonic Knights.
The German Order had been recruited by the Polish ruler, Władysław I the Elbow- against payment promises, because he should help him with the succession dispute with Waldemar to Pomerania and Danzig. The Order defended the castle of Danzig successfully against the Brandenburger, however, did not Władysław their payment promises. To obtain compensation, occupied the Order in 1308 then Danzig and the associated area. In order to keep the country legally occupied, the Order bought Waldemar then the rights of the Brandenburg margrave of Pomerania from that could make the contract of Arnswalde claimed this yet. According to Polish historian and this contract was the same as at the Dragebrücke of 1273 by the II of the Pomeranian Duke Mestwin, who had no male heir, on 15 February 1282 in Kempen with Przemysl II, Duke of Greater Poland, concluded Succession contract questioned.
The Marquis handed the Order of a certificate to the effect that they had given in fief the Duchy of Pomerania during a held in Ravenna in the December 1231 Reichstag of the Roman-German Emperor Frederick II. This investiture, which had already been made before Frederick Barbarossa Frederick II, was renewed on January 8, 1295 in Mühlhausen. The imperial fiefs of Brandenburg Pomerania were contested by most of the Pomeranian Dukes.
The purchase and division Treaty of Soldin 1311 was indeed confirmed by the German King Henry VII, who had but previously had no land rights to Pommerellen yet been exercised. The Polish ruler, Władysław I the Elbow- did not recognize the Treaty of Soldin to life.
Only in the Treaty of Kalisz in 1343, the Polish King Casimir recognized "the Great" the disputed territories including Danzig in the legal ownership of the German Order state to after the Grand Master Dietrich von Altenburg a papal commission of inquiry in 1339, the Margrave of Brandenburg by Frederick II in 1231 issued had submitted Belehnungsurkunde. Casimir III. undertook to raise no more claims on Pomerania and on the Kulmerland and Michel Auer country in the future. He received in return for the captured by German knights 1329-1332 Kuyavian and Dobriner country back. The peace agreement had also to confirm seven cities: Poznań and Kalisz in Greater Poland, Wloclawek and Kuyavian -Brest Kujawy and Krakow, Sandomierz and New characrterized in Lesser Poland. Two provisions of the treaty of Kalisch, the removal of Pomerania from the titulary of the Polish king, and restitution were not subsequently executed.
The Malbork castle was after the occupation of Pomerania 1309 main residence of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order until 1456.