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Kancelaria na dworze księcia szczecińskiego Jana Fryderyka, personel i funkcjonowanie. Zarys problematyki

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Ogiewa-Sejnota M., Sulikowska A.

Studia Maritima

2014

vol. 27/II

137-162

In the reign of John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania (1569–1600) one of the most important central clerks was the chancellor who had not only a high position in the hierarchy of the court but also was in charge to control the court’s chancery – a very important place at a court where the inner and foreign policy was focused in, where documentation for different affairs was created, where income and outgoings registers were managed and till 1575 – where judicial decisions were elaborated. The article describes shortly the principles of the chancery operations, the duties of the chancery clerks and the obligatory circulation of documents. The analysis of the court ordinations allowed only a detailed recognition of the chancellor’s and scribes’ tasks and a short presentation of settled chancery matters. A more complex description of the function of the Szczecin’s court chancery shall base on long-lasting and laborious source investigations.

Z dziejów pomorskiej dyplomacji. Wiedeńska podróż księcia Jana Fryderyka (1565–1566)

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Ogiewa-Sejnota M.

Przegląd Zachodniopomorski

2014

issue 2

5-14

Duke John Frederick, who was a claimant to the Szczecin (German: Stettin) throne, went on his first diplomatic journey to the Emperor’s Court in Vienna. The objective of the young Duke’s journey was to make Emperor Maximilian I give the Pomeranian fiefdom directly to the Griffins; thanks to that the Griffins would be equal to all the other dukes of the Reich. The preparation to the journey had been expensive as the Pomeranian Dukes wanted not only to come out well but they also wanted to support the Emperor in his war against the Ottoman Empire. In addition to that, the young Duke was to establish commercial contacts with the Hungarians from whom wine might be imported to Szczecin. During his stay at the Emperor’s Court the heir to the Szczecin throne wanted to present himself in the best possible manner in order to secure the Pomeranian interests. Even a special fund had been created to organize receptions during which John Frederick was supposed to have conversations important for the Duchy. He had been instructed to have all the agreements in writing because it was feared that other dukes and the emperor’s clerks might use chicanery during the Reich’s Parliament session in Augsburg. Little is known on the details of the route the duke travelled; he stayed in Poznań (German: Posen), Augsburg and Freiburg from where he set off to Vienna. On his way back home he passed through Linz, Munich, Augsburg and Kostrzyn (German: Kostschin). John Frederick’s journey, in spite of high costs, was profitable for the Duchy. He managed to obtain the fiefdom, and peace and stabilization were secured. The position of the Pomeranian Duchy in the Reich was reinforced; the proof for that was a peace conference organized in Szczecin, which ended the Northern Seven Years’ War.

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Kancelaria na dworze księcia szczecińskiego Jana Fryderyka, personel i funkcjonowanie. Zarys problematyki

Z dziejów pomorskiej dyplomacji. Wiedeńska podróż księcia Jana Fryderyka (1565–1566)