Sandomierz Confederation

The Sandomierz Confederation was an anti-Swedish confederation, formed on 20 May 1704 in defense of the King of Poland, August II the Strong. It was formed in reaction to the Warsaw Confederation, and its marshal was Stanisław Ernest Denhoff. The confederation lasted until 1717, when it was disbanded by the Silent Sejm.

Members of the confederation mostly consisted of nobility from Lesser Poland, who supported the Electorate of Saxony, whose ruler August II also was king of Poland. Its forming resulted in a three-year civil war between the two camps. In its initial stages, Swedish side had the upper hand, and the Warsaw Confederation was eventually victorious in the civil war in Poland (1704–1706), which ended with the Treaty of Altranstädt (1706). Soon, however, after Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War, the Russians prevailed and August II resumed the Polish throne in 1709.

Further reading

Books

• Davies, Brian (2011-06-16). Empire and Military Revolution in Eastern Europe: Russia's Turkish Wars in the Eighteenth Century. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-4411-6238-0.
• Šapoka, Mindaugas (2017-09-13). Warfare, Loyalty, and Rebellion: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Great Northern War, 1709–1717. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-00030-3.
• Stone, Daniel Z. (2014-07-01). The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-80362-3.
• Frost, Robert I. (2014-09-25). The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558 - 1721. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89858-0.

Journal articles

• Paweł, Krokosz (1 January 2022). "Difficult alliance. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia against Sweden during the Great Northern War (1700–1721) – an introduction to the problematic". Open Military Studies. 2 (1): 248–264. doi:10.1515/openms-2022-0139. ISSN 2545-3254.
• Frost, Robert I. (2009). ""Everyone understood what it meant": The Impact of the Battle of Poltava on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 31 (1/4): 159–176. ISSN 0363-5570.
• GIEROWSKI, JÓZEF ANDRZEJ (1979). "Centralization and Autonomy in the Polish-Saxon Union". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 3/4: 271–284. ISSN 0363-5570.
• Lednicki, W. (1928). "Poland and the Slavophil Idea". The Slavonic and East European Review. 7 (19): 128–140. ISSN 0037-6795.
• Lednicki, W. (1929). "Poland and the Slavophil Idea (II)". The Slavonic and East European Review. 7 (21): 649–662. ISSN 0037-6795.
• Płuciennik, Jarosław; Hintz, Marcin (2024-01-02). "The Sandomierz Agreement as a Model for Eclectic Republicanism in Sixteenth-Century Poland". Reformation & Renaissance Review. 26 (1): 19–37. doi:10.1080/14622459.2024.2317879. ISSN 1462-2459.
• Kopiec, P. (2024-12-17). "Between the Pandemic, the War and the Value Conflict: Polish Ecumenism at Crossroads". Acta Theologica. 44 (2): 108–124. doi:10.38140/at.v44i2.8925. ISSN 2309-9089.
• Gąsiorowski, Stefan (2022-12-22). "Bibliografia zawartości czasopisma „Studia Judaica. Półrocznik" za lata 1998–2022 (numery 1–50)". Studia Judaica (2 (50)): 377–442. doi:10.4467/24500100STJ.22.014.17184.

See also

• Treaty of Narva