Everything about The Prussian Homage totally explained
The
Prussian Homage or
Tribute (; ) was the formal investment of
Albert of Prussia as duke of the
Polish fief of
Ducal Prussia.
In the aftermath of the armistice ending the
recent Polish-Teutonic War Albert,
Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and a member of the
House of Hohenzollern, visited
Martin Luther at
Wittenberg and soon therefter became sympathetic to
Protestantism. On
April 10,
1525, two days after signing of the
Treaty of Kraków, in the market of the Polish capital
Kraków, Albert resigned his position as Grand Master of the
Teutonic Knights to become a
Lutheran and receive the title "Duke of Prussia" from his uncle King
Zygmunt I the Old of Poland. In a deal partially brokered by Luther, the Duchy of Prussia became the first Protestant state, anticipating the
Peace of Augsburg of 1555. Nevertheless
investiture of Protestant fief of Duchy of Prussia was better for Poland for geostrategical reasons than Catholic fief of State of Teutonic Order in
Prussia, formally subjected to the
Holy Roman Emperor and
Papacy.
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