The Legal Concept of "Corona Regni Poloniae" (700 years old)

During the 1300s Polish lawyers developed a legal concept of "Corona Regni Poloniae", which was about infrangibility and permanency of Polish territory. In the light of that legal concept, territory which once became part of Poland, remains part of Poland forever - according to this law. Basing on that law, Polish rulers were aiming at regaining territories over which they lost their political control (but those territories - in view of this legal concept - still remained parts of Poland, legally and formally). So according to Poland's own law, Poland - embodied in "Corona Regni Poloniae" - never lost Silesia, for example.

Poland - according to the concept of "Corona Regni Poloniae", which was first developed during the 1300s - includes:

1) Territories which are located within the political borders of Poland at a given time,
2) All territories which historically were within the political borders of Poland during some period.

The concept of "Corona Regni Poloniae" was described in detail by Polish historian and diplomat Jan Długosz, who lived during the 1400s.

You might consider this legal concept as a bit selfish, but you will surely agree with me, that it was very smart.

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Also the law of "Corona Regni Poloniae" was recognized as being superior to all agreements and treaties. So for example even though King of Poland Casimir III had to admit the loss of Silesia to the Kingdom of Bohemia in a treaty signed in year 1348, it only meant the loss of political control over the region - but despite that, the region still remained one of Polish territories in the light of the concept of "Corona Regni Poloniae".

For that matter, we'd like to regain Great Old Bulgaria. You bloody Ukrainians (and now Russians! the audacity!) occupied righteous lands that belong to Bulgaria.

14th century Polish lawyers should've been introduced to the term 'social relativism'.

Another good 14th century (invented in year 1312) Polish concept was the language test for loyalty:

Norman Davies said:

A revolt by the Germans of Cracow, headed by one Albert, and by Bishop Jan Muskata, who thought of returning to their earlier Bohemian allegiance, was suppressed after a year-long siege [1311 - 1312]. (...) Investigations into the Cracovian revolt were assisted by a simple language test. Any suspect who could repeat and correctly pronounce "soczewica", "koło", "miele", "młyn" was judged loyal; he who faltered was guilty. (...) The Archbishop of Gniezno, Jakub Swinka, brought Bishop Muskata, the "enemy of the Polish people", before an ecclesiastical court. He excommunicated [in 1285] the prince of Głogów, who "was turning Silesia into a new Saxony" and had resigned his claim to Pomerania in favour of the Teutonic Order.

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Such language policy should have been introduced already during the 1200s.

Everyone who wanted to settle in Poland, should have been required to be able to pronounce "soczewica", "koło", "miele", "młyn", etc.

We would have avoided the gradual progress of Germanization in our western regions thanks to that.

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Iacobus (Jakub) Swinka, Archbishop of Gniezno from 1283 to 1314:

He was one of people who contributed to hampering the eastward spread of this ugly German language, in some regions at least:

if you dont speak the polish master language, into austerity!

I somehow doubt that Domen. I am sure many people in Silesia were bilingual at least between 13th and 15th centuries.

Well, if I wasn't convinced that Poland is an ugly and unnecessary nation-state, I certainly am now.

if you dont speak the polish master language, into austerity!

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Lord of Elves said:

Well, if I wasn't convinced that Poland is an ugly and unnecessary nation-state, I certainly am now.

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Helmold of Bosau (born c. 1120, Lower Saxony - died after 1177, Bosau, Holstein) - "Chronicle of the Slavs" - Chapter 1, "About the Division of the Slavs":

"(...) Bohemia has a king and warlike knighthood; they have a lot of churches and the people are dedicated to religious practices. Bohemia is divided into two bishoprics - Prague and Olomouc. Poland is a great country of Slavic people (...) It is divided into eight bishoprics [they were: Gniezno, Poznań, Włocławek, Płock, Cracow, Wrocław, Lubusz and Wolin]. In the past Poland had kings, but now it is ruled by dukes. The kinds of weapons and the methods of combat used by Poles are the same as those of Czechs. Called to war, Poles are brave in battle, but exceedingly cruel in their robberies and murders. They spare neither monasteries, nor churches, nor cemeteries. This is why you can only get them involved in wars conducted by others, under the condition that you allow them to plunder the property which is kept in sacred places. Due to this fact it also happens, that driven by their appetite for plunder, Poles treat their allies as if they were enemies. (...)"

However, Germans of the time were not any better:

Adam of Bremen (Adamus Bremensis) in "Gesta Ecclesiae Hamburgensis Pontificum" (written in 2nd half of 11th century) wrote:

"(...) very sincere Danish king [Sweyn II Estridsson] used to say, that [Pagan] Slavic peoples would have become Christian already long time ago and voluntarily, if only not the Saxon rapacity, which stands in the way. Saxon mind, as he used to say, is more accustomed to collecting tribute than to converting people. These wretches [Saxons] do not expect, how heavy price they will pay for their greediness. They, who first disturbed the progress of Christianity in Slavdom... , now in order to get rich despise the salvation of souls of these ones, who wanted to become believers. (...)"

Widukindus Corbeius - wrote this about Duke of Saxony (and later also King of Germany), Henry the Fowler:

"(...) King Henry, despite being harsh on foreigners, turned out to be gracious in every possible way toward his own citizens. For this reason, whenever he found some petty thief or bandit or thug with strong arms, who was capable of fighting, he was releasing that criminal from punishment. Later, settling such a thug or bandit near Merseburg, granting him land and equipping with weapons, he was ordering him not to commit any more crimes against his own people, but instead to direct his evilness against barbarians (...) Doing like this, Henry assembled entire legion. (...)"

That proves one thing: People in Eastern Europe were mean.

Which... has about nothing to do with the topic at hand. Like, at all. Lord of Elves was joking, and you jumped like a hound at him.

Lord of Elves was joking, and you jumped like a hound at him.

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Like a mean hound.

People in Eastern Europe were mean.

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And in Central Europe too. And elsewhere. In general, people were mean:


Link to video.

Like a mean, Polish hound, to be precise.

If hounds wrote long-winded nationalist posts. Maybe the Polish ones do.

If hounds wrote long-winded nationalist posts. Maybe the Polish ones do.

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It seems that hounds of Europe (so also ones of Poland) bark rather than writing posts:

Domen said:

During the 1300s Polish lawyers developed a legal concept of "Corona Regni Poloniae", which was about infrangibility and permanency of Polish territory. In the light of that legal concept, territory which once became part of Poland, remains part of Poland forever - according to this law. Basing on that law, Polish rulers were aiming at regaining territories over which they lost their political control (but those territories - in view of this legal concept - still remained parts of Poland, legally and formally). So according to Poland's own law, Poland - embodied in "Corona Regni Poloniae" - never lost Silesia, for example.

Poland - according to the concept of "Corona Regni Poloniae", which was first developed during the 1300s - includes:

1) Territories which are located within the political borders of Poland at a given time,
2) All territories which historically were within the political borders of Poland during some period.

The concept of "Corona Regni Poloniae" was described in detail by Polish historian and diplomat Jan Długosz, who lived during the 1400s.

You might consider this legal concept as a bit selfish, but you will surely agree with me, that it was very smart.

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Delusional, I'd say. You can't just legislate yourself into the Eternal Empire. Solipsism, nothing more.

Hey, if the Holy Roman Empire can do it, I don't see why the Polish Reich or whatever you'll use instead of Empire, can't.

Tolni said:

Hey, if the Holy Roman Empire can do it, I don't see why the Polish Reich or whatever you'll use instead of Empire, can't.

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Rzeczpospolita.

Traitorfish said:

Delusional, I'd say. You can't just legislate yourself into the Eternal Empire. Solipsism, nothing more.

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Well you can. The problem is someone can just legislate your eternal empire out of existence.

Any suspect who could repeat and correctly pronounce "soczewica", "koło", "miele", "młyn" was judged loyal; he who faltered was guilty.

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Try and check if you could pass that language exam (click the speaker to check pronunciation):

1) soczewica:

http://pl.forvo.com/search/soczewica/

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/polish-english/soczewica

2) koło:

http://pl.forvo.com/word/koło/#pl

3) młyn:

http://pl.forvo.com/word/młyn/#pl

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/polish-english/młyn

4) miele:

"Miele" = "is milling" or "is grinding"; whereas "mielić" = "to mill" or "to grind". "Miele" is pronounced just like Mielec, but without "c":

http://pl.forvo.com/word/mielec/

ParkCungHee said:

Well you can. The problem is someone can just legislate your eternal empire out of existence.

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Well, that already happened. Thanks, Russia, Prussia and Austria!

Well - in case of Bulgaria, nobody even bothered to legislate it out of existence.

Byzantines just took it without legislating anything. And later Turks did the same.

Bah, Domen. Don't let this turn into a nationalist catfight. That won't work on me.