Voivode of Malbork

Malbork Voivodeship Palatinatus Marienburgensis Województwo malborskie
Voivodeship of Poland¹ Part of Royal Prussia
← 1466–1772 →
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Malbork Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Capital		Marienburg
History
•	Prussian uprising	1454
•	2nd Peace of Thorn	9 October 1466
•	Union of Lublin	1569
•	1st Polish partition	1772
Area		2,096 km2(809 sq mi)
Political subdivisions		Counties: 4
¹ Voivodeship of the Polish Crown in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; Voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland before 1569.

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The Malbork Voivodeship (Polish: Województwo malborskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Kingdom of Poland from 1454/1466 until the partitions in 1772–1795. Together with the Pomeranian and Chełmno Voivodeships and the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia it formed the historical province of Royal Prussia. Its capital was at Marienburg (Malbork).

After the Teutonic Knights during the 13th century had conquered the Prussian territories and incorporated them into the Order's State, the castle of Marienburg served as the seat of the Grand Masters. Following the 1410 Battle of Grunwald, the Knights once again could withstand the Polish Siege of Marienburg. However, after the uprising of the Prussian Confederation in 1454 (in which Marienburg did not participate) and the outbreak of the Thirteen Years' War with the Kingdom of Poland, they had to withdraw to Königsberg and after their final defeat lost the castle and the surrounding territory in the 1466 Second Peace of Thorn.

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