Provisions
Negotiations began in late December 1400 in Hrodna. The union was signed in three separate acts: one by Jogaila (the original of which did not survive), another by Vytautas and the Lithuanian nobles (in Vilnius on January 18, 1401), and the third by the Polish Royal Council (in Radom on March 11, 1401). It is significant that for the first time the Lithuanian nobles issued a political act in their own name, not merely as witnesses to the Grand Duke's treaties.
Vytautas was instituted as the Grand Duke of Lithuania (magnus dux) while his cousin Jogaila, King of Poland, retained the rights of an overlord (supremus dux). The union legalized the Grand Duchy's independence leaving Vytautas fully in charge of all Lithuanian affairs. However, this independence was to be temporary – after Vytautas' death Lithuania was to be governed by Jogaila or his legal heir. The Polish and Lithuanian nobles agreed not to elect a new King of Poland without consulting each other. At the time neither Jogaila nor Vytautas had heirs, but each hoped to sire legitimate sons that would inherit both the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy (eventually it would be Jogaila who would succeed in this).
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“Drinking tents were full, glasses began to clink in carriages, hampers to be unpacked, tempting provisions to be set forth, knives and forks to rattle, champagne corks to fly, eyes to brighten that were not dull before, and pickpockets to count their gains during the last heat. The attention so recently strained on one object of interest, was now divided among a hundred; and, look where you would, there was a motley assemblage of feasting, talking, begging, gambling and mummery.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)