The Sudovians and Lithuanian invade Samland in …
Years: 1280 - 1280
The Sudovians and Lithuanian invade Samland in 1280, but the Order of the Teutonic Knights, alerted to the danger, has fortified their castles and deprives the raiders of provisions.
Komtur Ulrich Bayer of Tapiau leads a devastating counter-raid into Sudovia while the pagans are in Samlan.
The Polish prince Leszek the Black, who had assumed the throne of Kraków in 1279, achieves two significant victories over the pagans, securing the Polish border, and Skalmantas flees Sudovia to Lithuania.
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Prussians, Old, or Baltic (Western Balts)
- Yotvingians, or Sudovians (Western Balts)
- Sambians (Western Balts)
- Lithuanians (Eastern Balts)
- Germans
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Warmians (Prussian Clan)
- Poles (West Slavs)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Pogesanians (Prussian clan)
- Natangians (Prussian clan)
- Poland during the period of fragmentation, Kingdom of
- Poland, Greater
- Teutonic Knights of Acre (House of the Hospitalers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem)
- Lithuania, Grand Duchy of
- Galicia–Volhynia, Kingdom of
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Northern Crusades, or Baltic Crusades
- Livonian Crusade
