Obozy magnackie a zgromadzenia szlacheckie wokół Warszawy podczas zjazdu elekcyjnego po śmierci Stefana Batorego

Abstract

From the 1587 electoral convention, an inscribed cartographic primitive has survived showing the Warsaw area with localized magnate camps and the electoral shed. In the article I analyze this source, explain the context of the depicted events and the depicted space. I prove that this map was created in the first days of July (1–5) 1587 and was attached to the correspondence as a kind of appendix. I link the creation of this plan to the activities of the Grand Marshal of the Crown, and I also take into account the Lithuanian tropes in it. Finally, I attempt to locate the ten established camps. I estimate that collectively they gathered about 15–20 thousand nobles, servants and soldiers in the service of the magnates. I estimate that the nobility came in crowds to the electoral field, but rather their numbers were little more than 10 thousand, thus they were in the minority compared to the magnates’ retinues. [Translated by Stefan Kubiak]