Nowomarchijskie przypadki Wierzbięty ze Smogulca. Przyczynek do dziejów Nowej Marchii pod władzą Zygmunta Luksemburczyka i zakonu krzyżackiego
Cases of Wierzbięta from Smogulec in the New March. A contribution to the history of the New March under the ruling of the Sigismund of Luxembourg...

Summary/Abstract: Thanks to arrangements made by Jerzy Zysnarski and Edward Rymar, we know that it was Wierzbięta from Smogulec, a knight from Wielkopolska, belonging to the noble clan of Grzymała that had the rights to a small town of Danków in the New March. A detailed analysis of the available source material allowed for pointing out that he received Danków from Sigismund of Luxembourg probably on 16 November 1386 as a salary for the merits given to Sigismund after king Ludwik Węgierski’s death. Jan Zgorzelecki gave the same properties to Otto von Kittlitz, a knight from Łużyce, in 1391. When leaving the New March to the Teutonic Knights, Kittlitz remembered about his rights to Danków while the Order’s authorities used Wierzbięta’s rights against him who was financially connected with the Teutonic Knights much earlier. It led to a long-lasting argument in which initially it was Wierzbięta’s wife and relatives that took part in before October 1403 and his death. The very argument quickly became an argument between Otto von Kittlitz and the Teutonic Knights. It was as late as in 1452 that Fryderyk, a Saxon elector finally ascribed Danków properties to the Teutonic Knights. In subsequent stages of the trial, a big role was given to the representatives of the states (knighthood and towns) of the New March having a much stronger position than the states in the Prussian state of the Order.

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