„Niech to każdy obaczy jeśli Litwa małą krzywdę, żal, despekt i wzgardą ma od Polaków”: epizod sporu między Litwą a Koroną Polską o Inflanty
“Let Everyone see that Lithuania has Harm, Regret, Offence, and Contempt from the Poles”: an Episode of a Dispute between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish Kingdom over Livonia

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the text preserved in a manuscript under the title Czo za prawa X. Litewskie ma do ziemie Infl ianczki a poliaczi do niei nicz niemaią (What rights has the Duchy of Lithuania to Livo-nian lands while the Poles have none, most probably written in 1582). It contains legal and ideologi-cal arguments put forward by the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the disputes with the nobility of the Polish Kingdom over the possession of Livonia. Th e author concludes that the Lithuanian political elite retained a deep distrust of their Polish partners at the end of the sixteenth century resulting from the previous experiences gained at the time of the conclusion of the Union of Lublin and the Livonian War.

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