Talk:Prussian Homage

1525 Prussian Tribute -Krakow Agreement
Both peace agreements, the 1466 Second Treaty of Thorn and the 1525 Krakow Kuhhandel (cow trade) between Albrecht of Brandenburg-Prussia and his uncle Sigismund I were unauthorized and not recognized by either the popes nore the emperors, the supreme overlords.

"Kuhhandel"??? This is another ridiculous euphemism to mask the fact that Teutonic Order was smashed to pieces. Albrech Hohenzzolern tried to ally with Muscovy, but run out of funds and the whole country was overrun by Polish armies. Teutonic cities were opening gates and welcomed invaders as they were fed up with the high taxing imposed by the Order. They also wanted to trade with Poland. At the end Polish hetman, Mikolaj Firlej, besieged Albrecht Hohenzollern in Konignsberg in 1521 and both the emperor and the pope had to beg Sigismund I of Poland to spare Albrecht. But the Polish gentry pressed on and half of the Order's land was directly incorporated into the Kingdom of Poland (along with Danzig) so that Polish nobility could easily ship grain to England, France and the Netherlands, while the other half simply became a fief to the Kingdom of Poland. It also became a secular, protestant dependecy - because Sigismund and the Polish parliment could not give more than a stinking rat about pope's and emperor's wishes. Because he received reinforcements from the catholic emperor in 1519, Albrecht knew the only way to save his position was to became lutheran. This was then accepted by Sigismund and the Polish senate, and so in 1525 Prussian Homage took place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.10.7.32 (talk) 18:05, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

were unauthorized and not recognized by either the popes nore the emperors, the supreme overlords Supreme overlords ? This is bizarre. Neither the Pope or Holy Roman Emperor had any real significance to Poland. --Molobo 07:43, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Requested move
The new name is the one used by Norman Davies in God's Playground, the definitive English language history of Poland. The new name also returns about double the Google results of the former. (Both names are used, but the new one is more common.)


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 * Support. Appleseed 04:31, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Reasoning seems good enough for me.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 14:48, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Olessi 19:48, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

The move has been completed per Requested moves and this discussion. —Cleared as filed. 11:40, 24 November 2005 (UTC)