8 November 1412 The king pawns half of SpišKráľ dá polovicu Spiša do zálohu

On 8 November 1412 King Sigismund borrowed 37,000 kopy of Prague groschen from the king of Poland to pay for a war against Venice. A kopa was sixty coins, so he was borrowing something over two million pieces of silver — and the security he put up was thirteen Spiš towns, together with Ľubovňa castle and its estate and the towns of Podolínec, Hniezdne and Stará Ľubovňa. The loan was never repaid. Spišská Nová Ves, Spišská Belá, Poprad, Spišské Podhradie and the rest were governed from Poland for the next three hundred and sixty years. Levoča and Kežmarok were not in the pledge: they stayed royal free towns of Hungary, which left the two of them as the only Hungarian competition on the road to Poland, and sharpened their old quarrel instead of settling it.Ôsmeho novembra 1412 si kráľ Žigmund požičal od poľského kráľa 37 000 kôp pražských grošov na vojnu proti Benátkam. Kopa bola šesťdesiat mincí, čiže si požičiaval vyše dvoch miliónov strieborných — a do zálohu dal trinásť spišských miest, k tomu Ľubovniansky hrad s panstvom a mestá Podolínec, Hniezdne a Starú Ľubovňu. Pôžička sa nikdy nesplatila. Spišskú Novú Ves, Spišskú Belú, Poprad, Spišské Podhradie a ďalšie spravovalo Poľsko nasledujúcich tristošesťdesiat rokov. Levoča a Kežmarok v zálohu neboli: zostali slobodnými kráľovskými mestami Uhorska, a tak ostali na ceste do Poľska jedinou uhorskou konkurenciou. Ich starý spor to priostrilo, nie upokojilo.