My ancestors, who were Polish-Lithuanian smaller magnates (or higher nobles), had seen at the beginning of the 17th century consolidation of the House of Hohenzollern, they sight towards Ducal Prussia possibly uniting with the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and also their unreliability as vassals as dukes of Prussia.
Thus, they wanted to see Ducal Prussia gone, and partitioned in 3 parts: south joining the Crown of Poland (most people were Polish speakers), north east joining the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (most people were Lithuanian speakers), and remaining forming the Prussian Confederacy (after this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Confederation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Confederation) ) that would be equal part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the head of the Confederacy being nominally the Polish King, but with the complete internal autonomy.
The project was never fulfilled due to the lack of support of the other nobles (most of the Polish-Lithuanian nobles were peace loving and against being portrayed as those, who would firstly march with the army).
They were able to support their friend, Jerzy Ossoliński, as an overseer of Ducal Prussia from 1635. But it was short-lived. Ossoliński died in 1650, and Ducal Prussia stopped being vassal of Poland in 1657. Meanwhile in 1648 partition of the Duchy of Pomerania (that was always amicable towards Poland) happened with Hohenzollerns gaining its eastern half.
Few decades later in 1701 Hohenzollerns established the Kingdom of Prussia, and since then the plotting against Poland increased, in order to create a land-bridge between 2 parts of the Hohenzollern’s domain.
I believe there is an error on this map. The placed named Lautenburg on this map should be named Heilsberg. There is a town that was called Lautenburg and now it is Lidzbark. That Lidzbark (Lautenburg) is south of Osterode and west of Soldau. Heilsberg on the other hand is now called Lidzbark Warmiński, it lays on Warmia, between Allenstein (now Olsztyn) and Barten (now Bartoszyce) which I believe should be named Bartenstein.
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My ancestors, who were Polish-Lithuanian smaller magnates (or higher nobles), had seen at the beginning of the 17th century consolidation of the House of Hohenzollern, they sight towards Ducal Prussia possibly uniting with the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and also their unreliability as vassals as dukes of Prussia.
Thus, they wanted to see Ducal Prussia gone, and partitioned in 3 parts: south joining the Crown of Poland (most people were Polish speakers), north east joining the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (most people were Lithuanian speakers), and remaining forming the Prussian Confederacy (after this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Confederation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Confederation) ) that would be equal part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the head of the Confederacy being nominally the Polish King, but with the complete internal autonomy.
The project was never fulfilled due to the lack of support of the other nobles (most of the Polish-Lithuanian nobles were peace loving and against being portrayed as those, who would firstly march with the army).
They were able to support their friend, Jerzy Ossoliński, as an overseer of Ducal Prussia from 1635. But it was short-lived. Ossoliński died in 1650, and Ducal Prussia stopped being vassal of Poland in 1657. Meanwhile in 1648 partition of the Duchy of Pomerania (that was always amicable towards Poland) happened with Hohenzollerns gaining its eastern half.
Few decades later in 1701 Hohenzollerns established the Kingdom of Prussia, and since then the plotting against Poland increased, in order to create a land-bridge between 2 parts of the Hohenzollern’s domain.
I believe there is an error on this map. The placed named Lautenburg on this map should be named Heilsberg. There is a town that was called Lautenburg and now it is Lidzbark. That Lidzbark (Lautenburg) is south of Osterode and west of Soldau. Heilsberg on the other hand is now called Lidzbark Warmiński, it lays on Warmia, between Allenstein (now Olsztyn) and Barten (now Bartoszyce) which I believe should be named Bartenstein.
The ol switcheroo.
Source? I’ve never heard of it.
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