Zakon Krzyżacki wobec koronacji elektora brandenburskiego Fryderyka III na króla w Prusach
The Teutonic Order against the coronation of Frederic III, Elector of Brandenburg, as the king in Prussia

Summary/Abstract: The coronation of Frederic III, Elector of Brandenburg, as the king in Prussia on 15 January 1701 met with a fierce protest of the Teutonic Order. The information about it quickly spread all over Germany and Europe. It turned out that raising the rule of the Hohenzollerns from Brandenburg to the rank of a kingdom was against the wishes of other political powers, much more important than the Teutonic Knights, such as France, Spain, Venice, the Polish-Lithuanian state, the Holy See, and most of the Catholic territorial entities of the German Reich. In such conditions a chance appeared for the Teutonic Order to use the auspicious situation and negotiate from Hohenzollern a rich compensation. Negotiations were carried out with the envoy of the Berlin court in Viena, but were terminated in December 1701 on the initiative of the newly crowned king in Prussia. The failure of the attempts of the Teutonic Knights was caused by the dynamically changing international situation. The growing conflict between Habsburgs and Bourbons regarding the Spanish succession forced Emperor Leopold I and the states related to him, as well as the territorial entities of the German Reich, to take Hohenzollern’s side.

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