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ISSN: 0552-4245     eISSN: 2353-3021    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/pz.2016.1-13
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Zabiegi o zmianę ordynacji wyborczej rady miejskiej w Lublinie w ostatnim ćwierćwieczu XV wieku
(Efforts to Change the Elections Statute of the Town Council in Lublin in the Last Quarter of the 15th Century)

Authors: Ryszard Szczygieł
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie
Keywords: town council the regime of towns Medieval Lublin
Whole issue publication date:2016
Page range:10 (249-258)
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Abstract

In Lublin in the 15th century the town council was elected by a college composed ofa hereditary alderman and representatives of the town’s citizens and of the people wholived in the suburbs of Lublin. The same century saw a conflict between them and thehereditary aldermen who represented the Cracow patriciate and were not interested in thedevelopment of Lublin. In the third quarter of the 15th century the Lublin town councilsupported by numerous groups of burghers and King Kazimierz Jagiellonian deprivedthe (hereditary) alderman of any influence on the economic life of the town and theelection of the judicial alderman and town council’s judicial clerks. In 1487 there wasa conflict between the King and the town council of Cracow; and there was an attempt totake advantage of that conflict and to deprive the hereditary alderman of his participationin the election of town councillors. However, that attempt failed, which was the resultof the decision of the Royal Commission and the King himself. The electoral collegewas expanded by two members: the starost (also: starosta, an old leader in Slavic countries)and the voivod (also: voivode/vaivode, a military commander/governor of a town/province in various Slavic countries). It was not a success of the Lublin elite of power,whatsoever.
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