Ermeland

Ermland, a part of Prussia. Prussian land was by 1242 sectioned into four dioceses by papal legate [William of Modena]?. Under the archbishop of Riga in Livonia, the four Prussian lands were called Culmer Land, Pomesania, Ermland and Samland.

The bishopric of Ermland in Prussia later became a separate exempt bishopric. The eastern part of Prussia went from rule by the Teutonic Knights to being ruled by the Hohenzollern family, starting with Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Prussia or Albert of Prussia, also referred to as Albert I of Prussia or Albert I Brandenburg. This part was later called East Prussia.

Ermland's most famous citizens were the family members of Lucas Watzenrode or Watzelrode, who was bishop of Ermland and who raised and educated his nephew Nicolaus Kopernigk and his brother, when their father died. Nicolaus was born in the Prussian [Culmer land]? in the Hanseatic League city of Thorn. He studied in Italy at the German University and in Crakow?, also a Hanseatic city at that time. Later Nicolaus secured income as Domherr in Frauenburg?. As a Prussian representative he worked on coin money reform . His main occupation was as a doctor and only in his spare time did he work on his other project for which he later became world famous as Copernicus

In 1755 the imperial mapmaker of Elbing ( S.Roem.imp.Principi) Johann Friedrich Endersch completed work on a beautiful map of Ermland.It details all surrounding towns . *outside link to map: [[1]]