Twórcy unii horodelskiej
The authors of the Union of Horodło

Summary/Abstract: The authoress supposes that the numerous resolutions of the Union of Horodło of 2 October 1413 had been authored by various subjects, both individual and collective ones. The creator of the article concerning succession to the throne in Poland and Lithuania, after the death of Jagiello and Witold, as well as of the resolution introducing the permanence of the institution of grand ducal authority in Lithuania, which is closely associated with it, including after the death of Witold, was none other but Ladislaus Jagiello himself. It was also the latter one who together with Witold extended the scope of the land privileges for the Lithuanian boyars. The price which the Poles had to pay for the succession article and the stabilization of the grand ducal power in Lithuania was the article concerning the incorporation of Lithuania into Poland in the year 1386 and in the present. The above article was of considerable importance from the ideological point of view, but had no real foundations. The authoress is of the opinion that it was the archbishop of Gniezno Mikołaj Trąba, who at that time as well as previously had enjoyed Jagiello’s full trust, that had been the real initiator of Lithuanian boyars’ heraldic adoption by the Poles. The authoress is also of the opinion that the complete texts of all four Union documents had been brought to Horodło only to be sealed there.

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