Truce of Łęczyca

The Truce of Łęczyca was signed during the Polish–Teutonic War (1431–1435) between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order in Łęczyca on December 15 1433cite web| first=Maciej |last=Rynarzewski |url=http://www.pth.olsztyn.pl/abstrakty/Maciej%20Rynarzewski%20Abstract.pdf |title=Polish – Bohemian expedition to Nowa Marchia and Pomorze Gdańskie in year 1433| accessdate=2008-07-03 |publisher=Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne Oddział w Olsztynie] (this has also led some Polish historians to divide this Polish–Teutonic War into two wars, in 1431–1433 and in 1435). [cite book| first=Jędrzej |last=Giertych |coauthors=Brazilla Carroll |title=Poland and Germany: A Reply to Congressman B. Carrol Reece of Tennessee | year=1958 | publisher=Jędrzej Giertych |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=tg4gAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 |pages=37 |oclc=4169234] The Teutonic Knights, pressured by the citizens of their lands, agreed to the 12-year old trucepl icon cite book| first=Antoni |last=Prochaska |title=Król Władysław Jagiełło |publisher=Akademia Umiejętności |year=1908 |location=Kraków |oclc=13016756 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=DxoRAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA265&as_brr=3&ei=1aFrSKyzNoPijgGgoPDfAg#PRA1-PA267,M1 |pages=267] pl icon cite web| url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/71706,,,,wojny_polsko_krzyzackie,haslo.html |title=Wojny polsko-krzyżackie|publisher=Encyklopedia WIEM |accessdate=2008-07-03] to other Polish demands, including that the Order would cease support to Švitrigaila (a Lithuanian noble who attempted to break the Polish-Lithuanian union with the aid of the Order); in addition each side would control the territories it occupied until a peace would be signed ("uti possidetis"), and no party would seek mediation of foreign powers to change this truce.pl icon cite book |first=Feliks |last=Koneczny |title=Dzieje polski za Jagiellonow| publisher= Nakładem Krakowskiego Towarzystwa Oświaty Ludowej |location=Kraków |year=1903 |oclc=123147077 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=oyoLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA126&dq=%C5%81%C4%99czycy+1433&as_brr=3 |pages=123] pl icon cite book| first=Leon |last=Rogalski |title=Dzieje Krzyżaków: oraz ich stosunki z Polska̜, Litwa̜ i Prussami |publisher= Nakł. i drukiem S. Orgelbranda |year=1846 |location=Warsaw | volume=II |oclc=38718035 |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=UhgLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA210&as_brr=3& |pages=21] This marked the end of the war on Polish territories; the struggle on Lithuanian lands would continue for two more years (as the truce with Poland did not extend to the Livonian Order).

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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=UhgLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA210&vq=rozejm+na+lat+dwana%C5%9Bcie&dq=%C5%81%C4%99czycy+1433&as_brr=3&source=gbs_search_s#PPA212,M1 Partial text of the treaty] as cited by Leon Rogalski, "Dzieje Krzyżaków: oraz ich stosunki z Polska̜, Litwa̜ i Prussami".