Hi, Would someone wish to reply to her? I believe she is referring to http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/reg/OPRU/oprus.html#gener http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/reg/WPRU/wprus.html#gener Rick
Return-Path: HelgaH98@aol.com From: HelgaH98@aol.com Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:36:39 EST To: webmaster@genealogy.net Cc: HelgaH98@aol.com Subject: History East and West Prussia
Section History...annexed Polish Prussia. This modern day mistake ( or deliberate misstatement) of calling Prussia Polish is wide spread, but neverthe less false. Look at maps from that time and nowhere will you find Prussia as being Polish. The fact that Poland and Prussia were under the Hl Roman Emperor and Prussia or the Teutonic Knights were at some time under suzerainty of the "Polish " crown ,did not make Baltic/German Prussia Polish. The Crown of Poland was held by the Lithuanian Jagiellos/ Habsburgs and Swedish Wasas/Vasas. For ref :http://wierum.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/desbillons/eico/seite25.html or same seite45 seite 25 showing Sigismundus III, seite 45 Maximilianus. Make sure you read a l l the titles or offices held and check all the relatives How Polish do you think these and the other rulers of Poland were?
From day on e that Polanen came into Germania they gave pledge of allegiance to emperors and the first ruler of the Polanen received land on loan Land in Lien from emperors Otto I ,II, III This landwas between Warthe, Vistula and south of Netze/Notec.
Prussia was the land of the west baltic OldPrussi people. Baltic comes from the East Germanic Goths who lived with the Aesti-Prussi at the Baltic Sea, Mare Suebicum, Ostsee. Balta were the royal Goth. So please dont get the Goths and the Polanen from Kiev -the later Poles mixed up.
Helga Jonat Hecht