Contribuţii la istoria relaţiilor moldo-polono-otoamane în peiroada 1485-1497, după un nou izvor istoric: Jurnalul campaniei cavalerilor teutoni în Polonia şi Moldova la 1497, scris de Liborius Nacker
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF MOLDO-POLISH-OTTOMAN RELATIONS BETWEEN 1485−1497, FOLLOWING A NEW HISTORICAL SOURCE: DIARY OF THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS IN 1497 POLAND AND MOLDAVIA, WRITTEN BY LIBORIUS NACKER

Summary/Abstract: The history of the political, diplomatic and military relations between Moldavia, Poland and the Ottoman Empire in the period 1485−1497, are quite well-known in the Romanian historiography, as far as there are evidences on this theme. Unfortunately there are very few historical sources regarding this major subject from the medieval history of the Moldavian principality, that is why the events and realities of the mentioned period of time were incomplete and lacunar reconstituted. Thus, every new historical source is welcomed, so I propose to put to the good use of the Romanian historiography a new account: the Diary of the Teutonic Knights written during their “antiottoman” campaign in Poland and Moldavia (1497), by the secretary of the Order, Liborius Nacker. Besides the concrete informations about the army of the Teutonic Order, L. Nacker recorded some very interesting data on the historical circumstances of the campaign: the role of the Polish queen, Anne of Austria, in signing the Polish-Moldavian alliance in 1485, the cause of the degradation of these alliance and the new alliance of the Moldavian prince, Stephan the Great with the Ottoman Empire, the raids of prince Stephan’s mercenary Muha and his Tatar raiders in Poland, and aspects of the Moldavian-Ottoman diplomatic relations in the first half of 1497 are only a few new aspects of the mentioned source.

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