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.The
Union of Lublin (
Lithuanian language:
Liublino unija;
Polish language:
Unia lubelska) was a real union, signed July 1,
1569, in
Lublin,
Poland, which united the Kingdom of
Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into a single state, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Commonwealth was ruled by a single
elective monarchy who carried on the duties of
Polish king and
Grand Prince, and governed with a common Senate and diet (assembly) (the
Sejm). The Union was an evolutionary stage in the Polish-Lithuanian Union, necessitated by Lithuania's dangerous position in wars with Russia.
Constituting a crucial event in the history of several nations, the Union of Lublin has been viewed quite differently by many historians. Polish historians concentrate on its positive aspect, emphasizing its peaceful, voluntary creation and its role in the spreading of advanced Polish culture. Lithuanian historians are more critical of the union, pointing out that it was dominated by Poland. Some historians also emphasize that peasants in the Commonwealth had more freedom than those elsewhere, in particular in Lithuania's enemy Muscovy. Some peasants, in fact, fled Moscovy for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Jerzy Czajewski,
"Zbiegostwo ludności Rosji w granice Rzeczypospolitej" (Russian population exodus into the Rzeczpospolita), Promemoria journal, October 2004 nr. (5/15), ISSN 1509-9091 , Table of Content online, Polish language.
History
Background
There were long discussions before signing the treaty, as Lithuanian
magnates were afraid of losing much of their powers, since the union would make their status equal in the eyes of law with that of the much more numerous lower nobility. However Lithuania had been increasingly on the losing side of the
Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars and by the second half of the 16th century it faced the threat of total defeat in the Livonian war against Russia and incorporation into Muscovite Russia. The Polish nobility (the szlachta) on the other hand were reluctant to offer help to Lithuania without receiving anything in exchange. Zygmunt II August, King of Poland and
Grand Duke of Lithuania, seeing the threat to Lithuania and eventually to Poland, nonetheless pressed for the union, gradually gaining more supporters.
Sejm of 1567
The
Sejm met in January, 1567, near the Polish town of
Lublin, but did not reach an agreement. In protest to heavy pressure to sign the Act by Poles,
Lithuanians under leadership of Vilnius
voivod Mikołaj "Rudy" Radziwiłł left Lublin on
March 1, fearing that Zygmunt II August would make a decision on his own.
After that, on
March 26, the king was forced by the szlachta to incorporate the southern Lithuanian-controlled lands of
Podlachia, Volhynia, Podolia and the Kiev regions into the Crown of Poland. These historic lands of Rus' make up more than half of modern day
Ukraine, and were at that time a significant part of Lithuanian territory whose upper class was largely Ruthenian at that time. All loyal nobles were forced to swear to the King of Poland. Those who refused had their lands confiscated.
The Lithuanians were forced to come back under the leadership of
Jan Chodkiewicz, (father of Jan Karol Chodkiewicz) and continue negotiations using slightly different tactics than Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł. Although the Polish szlachta wanted full incorporation of the Grand Duch of Lithuania into the Crown, the Lithuanians continued to oppose, and agreed only on the status of a federal state. On 28 June, 1569, the last objections were overcome, and the act was signed by the king in the
Lublin Castle on
4 July .
Aftermath
Military
Poland provided military aid in the war after the union of the two entities, but did not return the previously annexed territories. Lithuania had to recognize the incorporation of Podlachia, Volhynia, Podolia and the Kiev regions into Poland .
Political
The Union of Lublin was Zygmunt's greatest achievement and greatest failure. Although it created the largest state in contemporary Europe that would endure for over 200 years, Zygmunt failed to push through the reforms that would create a workable political system. He hoped to strengthen the monarchy with the support of the lesser nobility, and balance the power of lesser nobility and magnates. However although all the nobility in the Commonwealth was in theory equal in terms of law, the
magnates' political power was not weakened significantly and in the end they could too often bribe or coerce their lesser brethren. In addition, the royal power would continue to wane, and while the neighbouring states continued to evolve into strong, centralized absolute monarchies, the Commonwealth would slide with its Golden Liberty into a political anarchy that would eventually cost it its very existence.
The Union of Lublin provided for a merger of the two states, although they retained significant degrees of autonomy, each having its own army, treasury, laws and administrations. Although the countries were equal in theory, the larger and more culturally attractive Poland would became the dominant partner. Due to population differences, Polish deputies outnumbered Lithuanians in the Sejm by 3:1 ratio.
The drafters of the Union of Lublin expected that the countries of Lithuania and Poland would be linked together more closely than they actually were, because the 1566 Second Statute of Lithuania had not lost its power, and some of its provisions substantially differed from the acts of the Union of Lublin. Eventually the
Third Statute of Lithuania was adopted in 1588, which however still contradicted the Union of Lublin on many points.
The Polish nobility therefore viewed the
Statutes of Lithuania as unconstitutional, because at the signing of the Union of Lublin it was said that no law could conflict with the law of Union. The Statutes, however, declared the laws of the Union that conflicted with them to be unconstitutional. The Statutes of Lithuania were also used in the territories of Lithuania annexed by Poland shortly before the Union of Lublin. These conflicts between statutory schemes in Lithuania and Poland persisted for many years.
Attempts to limit the power of Lithuanian magnates (especially the
Sapiehas' family) and unify the laws of the Commonwealth led to the koekwacja praw movement, culminating in the koekwacja reforms of the
election sejm of 1697 (May-June), confirmed in the
general sejm of 1698 (April) in the document
Porządek sądzenia spraw w Trybunale Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskego.
Jerzy Malec,
Szkice z dziejów federalizmu i myśli federalistycznych w czasach nowożytnych, "Unia Troista", Wydawnictwo UJ, 1999, Kraków, ISBN 83-233-1278-8, Part II, Chapter I
Koewkwacja praw.
Cultural
After the Union, the Lithuanian nobles had the same formal rights as the Polish to rule the lands and subjects under their control. However, political advancement in the Catholic dominated Commonwealth was a different matter.
In culture and social life, however, both the Polish language and Catholicism became dominant for the Ruthenian nobility, most of which were initially Ruthenian speaking and
Eastern Orthodox by religion (see Polonization). However the commoners, especially the peasants, continued to speak their own languages and to practise the Orthodox religion, which eventually created a significant rift between the lower
social classes of people and the nobility in the Lithuanian and Ruthenian areas of the Commonwealth. Some Ruthenian magnates resisted the attempted Polonization (see,
e.g.,
Ostrogski) by adamantly adhering to Orthodox Christianity, giving generously to the Ruthenian Orthodox Churches and to the Ruthenian schools. However, the pressure of Polonization was harder to resist with each subsequent generation and eventually almost all of the Ruthenian nobility was Polonized.
The Union of Lublin was superseded by the Constitution of the Third May from 1791, when the
federation Commonwealth was to be transformed into a unitary state by King Stanisław August Poniatowski. However the constitution was not fully implemented.
The
:Category:Cossack uprisings and foreign interventions led to the Partitions of Poland by
Russia,
Prussia and
Austria-Hungary in 1795. The Union of Lublin was also temporarily not active while the Union of Kėdainiai was in effect.
The Union of Lublin created the largest state in Europe's history (excluding the states not completely in Europe, i.e. the
Russian Empire or Roman Empires). Many historians also consider the Union of Lublin to have created a state similar to the present-day European Union, thus considering the Union (along with the Kalmar Union, the several Act of Union in the British Isles and other similar treaties) to be kind of a predecessor of the
Maastricht treaty. The former, however, created a state of countries more deeply linked than the present-day
European Union.
See also
References
External links
- Full text of the Union (Polish)
.The
Union of Lublin (Lithuanian language:
Liublino unija; Polish language:
Unia lubelska) was a
real union, signed
July 1, 1569, in
Lublin,
Poland, which united the Kingdom of Poland and the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania into a single state, the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Commonwealth was ruled by a single
elective monarchy who carried on the duties of Polish king and Grand Prince, and governed with a common
Senate and
diet (assembly) (the
Sejm). The Union was an evolutionary stage in the
Polish-Lithuanian Union, necessitated by Lithuania's dangerous position in wars with Russia.
Constituting a crucial event in the history of several nations, the Union of Lublin has been viewed quite differently by many historians. Polish historians concentrate on its positive aspect, emphasizing its peaceful, voluntary creation and its role in the spreading of advanced Polish culture. Lithuanian historians are more critical of the union, pointing out that it was dominated by Poland. Some historians also emphasize that peasants in the Commonwealth had more freedom than those elsewhere, in particular in Lithuania's enemy
Muscovy. Some peasants, in fact, fled Moscovy for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Jerzy Czajewski,
"Zbiegostwo ludności Rosji w granice Rzeczypospolitej" (Russian population exodus into the Rzeczpospolita), Promemoria journal, October 2004 nr. (5/15), ISSN 1509-9091 , Table of Content online, Polish language.
History
Background
There were long discussions before signing the treaty, as Lithuanian
magnates were afraid of losing much of their powers, since the union would make their status equal in the eyes of law with that of the much more numerous lower nobility. However Lithuania had been increasingly on the losing side of the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars and by the second half of the 16th century it faced the threat of total defeat in the
Livonian war against Russia and incorporation into Muscovite Russia. The Polish nobility (the
szlachta) on the other hand were reluctant to offer help to Lithuania without receiving anything in exchange.
Zygmunt II August, King of Poland and
Grand Duke of Lithuania, seeing the threat to Lithuania and eventually to Poland, nonetheless pressed for the union, gradually gaining more supporters.
Sejm of 1567
The
Sejm met in January, 1567, near the Polish town of
Lublin, but did not reach an agreement. In protest to heavy pressure to sign the Act by Poles, Lithuanians under leadership of Vilnius
voivod Mikołaj "Rudy" Radziwiłł left Lublin on March 1, fearing that Zygmunt II August would make a decision on his own.
After that, on
March 26, the king was forced by the szlachta to incorporate the southern Lithuanian-controlled lands of
Podlachia, Volhynia,
Podolia and the Kiev regions into the
Crown of Poland. These historic lands of Rus' make up more than half of modern day Ukraine, and were at that time a significant part of Lithuanian territory whose upper class was largely Ruthenian at that time. All loyal nobles were forced to swear to the King of Poland. Those who refused had their lands confiscated.
The Lithuanians were forced to come back under the leadership of Jan Chodkiewicz, (father of Jan Karol Chodkiewicz) and continue negotiations using slightly different tactics than Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł. Although the Polish szlachta wanted full incorporation of the Grand Duch of Lithuania into the Crown, the Lithuanians continued to oppose, and agreed only on the status of a federal state. On 28 June,
1569, the last objections were overcome, and the act was signed by the king in the
Lublin Castle on
4 July .
Aftermath
Military
Poland provided military aid in the war after the union of the two entities, but did not return the previously annexed territories. Lithuania had to recognize the incorporation of Podlachia, Volhynia, Podolia and the Kiev regions into Poland .
Political
The Union of Lublin was Zygmunt's greatest achievement and greatest failure. Although it created the largest state in contemporary Europe that would endure for over 200 years, Zygmunt failed to push through the reforms that would create a workable political system. He hoped to strengthen the monarchy with the support of the lesser nobility, and balance the power of lesser nobility and magnates. However although all the nobility in the Commonwealth was in theory equal in terms of law, the
magnates' political power was not weakened significantly and in the end they could too often bribe or coerce their lesser brethren. In addition, the royal power would continue to wane, and while the neighbouring states continued to evolve into strong, centralized absolute monarchies, the Commonwealth would slide with its Golden Liberty into a political anarchy that would eventually cost it its very existence.
The Union of Lublin provided for a merger of the two states, although they retained significant degrees of autonomy, each having its own army, treasury, laws and administrations. Although the countries were equal in theory, the larger and more culturally attractive Poland would became the dominant partner. Due to population differences, Polish deputies outnumbered Lithuanians in the Sejm by 3:1 ratio.
The drafters of the Union of Lublin expected that the countries of Lithuania and Poland would be linked together more closely than they actually were, because the 1566
Second Statute of Lithuania had not lost its power, and some of its provisions substantially differed from the acts of the Union of Lublin. Eventually the Third Statute of Lithuania was adopted in 1588, which however still contradicted the Union of Lublin on many points.
The Polish nobility therefore viewed the
Statutes of Lithuania as unconstitutional, because at the signing of the Union of Lublin it was said that no law could conflict with the law of Union. The Statutes, however, declared the laws of the Union that conflicted with them to be unconstitutional. The Statutes of Lithuania were also used in the territories of Lithuania annexed by Poland shortly before the Union of Lublin. These conflicts between statutory schemes in Lithuania and Poland persisted for many years.
Attempts to limit the power of Lithuanian magnates (especially the
Sapiehas' family) and unify the laws of the Commonwealth led to the koekwacja praw movement, culminating in the
koekwacja reforms of the election sejm of 1697 (May-June), confirmed in the general sejm of 1698 (April) in the document
Porządek sądzenia spraw w Trybunale Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskego.Jerzy Malec,
Szkice z dziejów federalizmu i myśli federalistycznych w czasach nowożytnych, "Unia Troista", Wydawnictwo UJ, 1999, Kraków, ISBN 83-233-1278-8, Part II, Chapter I
Koewkwacja praw.
Cultural
After the Union, the Lithuanian nobles had the same formal rights as the Polish to rule the lands and subjects under their control. However, political advancement in the Catholic dominated Commonwealth was a different matter.
In culture and social life, however, both the Polish language and Catholicism became dominant for the Ruthenian nobility, most of which were initially Ruthenian speaking and
Eastern Orthodox by religion (see Polonization). However the commoners, especially the peasants, continued to speak their own languages and to practise the Orthodox religion, which eventually created a significant rift between the lower social classes of people and the nobility in the Lithuanian and Ruthenian areas of the Commonwealth. Some Ruthenian magnates resisted the attempted Polonization (see,
e.g., Ostrogski) by adamantly adhering to Orthodox Christianity, giving generously to the Ruthenian Orthodox Churches and to the Ruthenian schools. However, the pressure of Polonization was harder to resist with each subsequent generation and eventually almost all of the Ruthenian nobility was Polonized.
The Union of Lublin was superseded by the
Constitution of the Third May from 1791, when the
federation Commonwealth was to be transformed into a
unitary state by King
Stanisław August Poniatowski. However the constitution was not fully implemented.
The :Category:Cossack uprisings and foreign interventions led to the Partitions of Poland by Russia, Prussia and
Austria-Hungary in 1795. The Union of Lublin was also temporarily not active while the Union of Kėdainiai was in effect.
The Union of Lublin created the largest state in Europe's history (excluding the states not completely in Europe, i.e. the Russian Empire or Roman Empires). Many historians also consider the Union of Lublin to have created a state similar to the present-day European Union, thus considering the Union (along with the
Kalmar Union, the several
Act of Union in the British Isles and other similar treaties) to be kind of a predecessor of the Maastricht treaty. The former, however, created a state of countries more deeply linked than the present-day
European Union.
See also
- Union of Kėdainiai
- Union of Lublin Mound
References
External links
- Full text of the Union (Polish)
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