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The Bull of Rieti, Pietati Proximum in 1234 Pope Gregory IX confirmed the Teutonic Order's domination of the Chelmno land east of the lower Vistula, and of any other lands conquered by Teutonic Order in Prussia("to eternal and absolute ownership"). The German Orders should answer exclusively to the sovereignty of the Pope. The Bull of Rieti presented the written authorization of a previous verbal consent given in August and September 1230. The Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Hermann von Salza had stubbornly insisted on a written.

The Bull of Rieti, 3 August 1234 corresponds to the Golden Bull of Rimini in 1226 with the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and the Treaty of Kruszwica of 1230 with the Polish Duke Conrad of Mazovia.

On 26 July, 1257 this Bull was confirmed by Pope Alexander IV.