Dokument dotyczący Bezławek z 1409 ROKU

• Authors: Kwiatkowski Krzysztof
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The presented contribution contains a discussion and a version of the document on the Bezławki settlement (Germ. Bäslack) dated 29 June 1409. This source survived only as a 16th-century copy included in a larger notebook with excerpts of documents confirming the bestowal of lands, estate sale and purchase transactions and land borders within the Rastenburg Hauptamt. Next to information relevant to the history of Bezławki and the nearby settlements, the discussed document also presents the manner of creating dependencies between the less affluent and the rich landowners belonging to the group of the so-called free men (Germ. Freien). As a result, it illustrates the mediatisation process, which is rather poorly confirmed by source documents and virtually non-researched for Prussia of the 1st half of the 15th century.

Keywords

EN

Late Middle Ages; Teutonic Order; rural settlements; Freien; Bezławki (formerly Bäslack); Prussia

• Publisher: Instytut Północny im. Wojciecha Kętrzyńskiego w Olsztynie
• Journal: Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 1(307)
• Pages: 147-153

Contributors

author

Kwiatkowski Krzysztof

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu