Ecclesiastical and Pastoral Context of the Internment of November Insurgents in the Malbork Żuławy Region
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Wydział Nauk Historycznych
Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, Warszawa, Polska
Submission date: 2024-08-28
Acceptance date: 2024-10-03
Online publication date: 2025-01-14
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Wojciech Zawadzki
Wydział Nauk Historycznych
Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, Warszawa, Warszawa, Polska
KMW 2024;327(4)
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After the fall of the November Uprising in October 1831, more than 20,000 Polish soldiers were interned in West Prussia. Most of them returned to the Kingdom of Poland or gone into exile in France by early 1832. We already know the personalities, recorded mainly in metric books, of more than a hundred insurgents who died in West Prussia. Around 1,500 insurgents, however, remained in Prussia. Many of them intended to get married in the Malbork Żuławy and Elbląg Żuławy regions, but first had to demonstrate their canonical capacity to enter into sacramental union. Thirty six annotations confirming marriages involving November insurgents were found in Catholic metric books from the Żuławy land.