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Royal elections in Poland (Polish: wolna elekcja, lit. free election ) were the elections of individual kings , rather than dynasties , to the Polish throne . Based on traditions dating to the very beginning of the Polish statehood, strengthened during the Piast and Jagiellon dynasties, they reached their final form in the Polish–Lithuanian ...
The free election of 1573 was the first ever royal election to be held in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.It gathered approximately 40,000 szlachta (Polish nobility) voters (the highest turnout ever) who elected Henry of Valois king.
Poland was ruled at various times either by dukes and princes (10th to 14th centuries) or by kings (11th to 18th centuries). During the latter period, a tradition of free election of monarchs made it a uniquely electable position in Europe (16th to 18th centuries).
From 1573 until 1795 the state system of elective monarchy in Poland required the royal elections of monarchs as well during the Sejm proceedings. [ 1 ] The first modern and free elections in 20th-century Poland were held in 1919, two months after the country regained independence in 1918 after over a century of partition and occupation by ...
Polish–Lithuanian szlachta was at that time strongly anti-Russian, and in case of a free election, Branicki’s victory was secure. Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski in 1764 The Czartoryski family, fearing a civil war, asked the Russian empress for military assistance.
The election of Francois Louis meant quick end to the Polish-Ottoman war, and possibility of a Polish-Russian conflict. The Russians, well aware of this danger, sent large sums of money to the Commonwealth, trying to win the support of Polish-Lithuanian nobility. The election took place in Wola near Warsaw, on June 27, 1697. By popular support ...
The 1704 Polish–Lithuanian royal election was an election to decide on the new candidate for the Polish–Lithuanian throne. History. In early 1700, ...
The free election of 1587 was the third royal election to be held in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which took place after the death of King Stefan Batory.It began on June 30, 1587, when Election Sejm was summoned in the village of Wola near Warsaw, and ended on December 27 of the same year, when King Sigismund III was crowned in Kraków’s Wawel Cathedral.