| Pacta conventa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (130 words) |
 | The first pacta conventa, acceded to by Henryk Walezy (Henri de Valois), 1573. |
| Pacta conventa (Latin: "agreed-upon agreements") was a contractual agreement, from 1573 to 1764 entered into between the "Polish nation" (i.e., the szlachta--nobility--of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) and a newly-elected king upon his "free election." |
| An example of the various concrete undertakings found in a king-elect's pacta conventa is King Władysław IV Waza's pledge to create a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy for the Baltic Sea. |
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