Księstwo Mazowieckie u progu inkorporacji. Charakterystyka obszaru około 1526 r. (część południowa)
The Duchy of Mazovia on the eve of incorporation. Characteristics of the territory c. 1526 (its southern part)

Summary/Abstract: This article is the first of a two-part review of ten lands of the Duchy of Mazovia and the counties that constituted them on the eve of their incorporation into the Kingdom of Poland in September 1526. It presents four southern lands: of Czersk, Warsaw, Liw, and Nur. The first two made the political core of the last Piasts’ rule, while the latter two were separated from those two in the fifteenth century. In total, this area encompassed ten counties. All the lands of the Duchy of Mazovia are characterised according to a uniform scheme, in the then binding seniority system. Particular lands were presented in terms of administrative divisions (state and Church ones), settlement processes, and the state of the urban network, the types and distribution of land ownership, and the position of a given land in the political structures of the duchy, expressed among other things by the functioning of a complete or incomplete hierarchy of offices, and the participation of the nobility of a given land in the exercise of power. Attempts have been made to show the diversity in the degree of development of Mazovian lands and to indicate its genesis.

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