New Citizens of Krakow and Lviv from the Cities of the Lublin Voivodeship in the 15th-16th Centuries

Abstract

The text is based on the registers of admissions to municipal law in Kraków andLviv. They show that in this period only 95 Lubliners were granted city rights in Krakówand 64 in Lwów, three times less than in the same period from Sandomierz Province.Immigration towards Kraków dominated the fi fteenth century, which was also morepopular in the third and fourth decades of the sixteenth century, as well as in the years1580–1611. On the other hand, it was not until the second decade of the fifteenth centurythat citizens of Lublin moved to Lwów permanently, with the largest number sett ling therein the years 1541–1550, when immigration to Kraków stopped (probably due to the plague raging there). Nevertheless, from the mid-16th century onwards, the infl ux of burghersfrom the Lublin voivodeship to Lviv was signifi cantly higher than before. Immigrationfrom Lublin predominated, but burghers from 22 other towns in the Lublin voivodeshipalso moved in. Craftsmen predominated. The author also considers other directions ofimmigration, including Warsaw and the cities of Lesser Poland, but concludes that immigration from the cities of the Lublin voivodeship was low, which was due to the delayin urbanisation processes and perhaps the att ractiveness of Lublin itself.