The Saxon army directed against Demmin is …
Years: 1147 - 1147
August
The Saxon army directed against Demmin is led by several bishops, including those of Mainz, Halberstadt, Münster, Merseburg, Brandenburg, Olmütz, and Bishop Anselm of Havelberg.
While their stated goal is to achieve the conversion of the pagans, most also seek additional territory and tithe for their dioceses; Abbot Wibald of Corvey has gone in the hopes of acquiring the island of Rügen.
The Demmin campaign also includes the secular margraves Conrad I and Albert the Bear, who hope to expand their marches.
A Royal Polish contingent wants to add to the Bishopric of Lebus.
Marching from Magdeburg, Albert the Bear recovers Havelberg, lost since the 983 Slavic rebellion.
The crusaders then destroy a pagan temple and castle at Malchow.
After an unsuccessful siege of Demmin, …
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Wends, or Sorbs (West Slavs)
- Obotrites (Slavic tribal confederation)
- Denmark, Kingdom of
- Danes (Scandinavians)
- Saxony, Duchy of
- Holstein, County of
- Hamburg, Archbishopric of, and Bremen, Bishopric of
- German, or Ottonian (Roman) Empire
- Magdeburg, Archbishopric of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Welf, House of
- Pomerania, Polish Duchy of
- Poland during the period of fragmentation, Kingdom of
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Poland, Fragmentation of
- Wendish Crusade
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions
Years: 1147 - 1147
August
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Wends, or Sorbs (West Slavs)
- Obotrites (Slavic tribal confederation)
- Denmark, Kingdom of
- Danes (Scandinavians)
- Saxony, Duchy of
- Holstein, County of
- Hamburg, Archbishopric of, and Bremen, Bishopric of
- German, or Ottonian (Roman) Empire
- Magdeburg, Archbishopric of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Welf, House of
- Pomerania, Polish Duchy of
- Poland during the period of fragmentation, Kingdom of
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Poland, Fragmentation of
- Wendish Crusade
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions