Robert Frost
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198208693
- eISBN:
- 9780191746345
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208693.003.0023
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
Chapter 23 analyses the nature and development of royal power in Poland, in particular under Casimir IV and his immediate successors John I Albert (Jan Olbracht) and Alexander Jagiellon. It examines ...
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Chapter 23 analyses the nature and development of royal power in Poland, in particular under Casimir IV and his immediate successors John I Albert (Jan Olbracht) and Alexander Jagiellon. It examines the construction of royal authority under Casimir, after the profligacy of the alienation by Jagiełło and Władysław’ III of much of the royal domain. It charts the eclipse of Oleśnicki and Casimir’s use of his royal prerogative, most notably his powers of appointment to secular and ecclesiastical office, to establish a loyal and effective royal council, dominated by an increasingly powerful royal party. It pays close attention to Casimir’s increasing control of ecclesiastical patronage, which culminated in the career of his son Cardinal Frederick Jagiellon, primate and bishop of Cracow. It concludes by analysing the increasingly effective royal government.Less
Chapter 23 analyses the nature and development of royal power in Poland, in particular under Casimir IV and his immediate successors John I Albert (Jan Olbracht) and Alexander Jagiellon. It examines the construction of royal authority under Casimir, after the profligacy of the alienation by Jagiełło and Władysław’ III of much of the royal domain. It charts the eclipse of Oleśnicki and Casimir’s use of his royal prerogative, most notably his powers of appointment to secular and ecclesiastical office, to establish a loyal and effective royal council, dominated by an increasingly powerful royal party. It pays close attention to Casimir’s increasing control of ecclesiastical patronage, which culminated in the career of his son Cardinal Frederick Jagiellon, primate and bishop of Cracow. It concludes by analysing the increasingly effective royal government.
