Vice-Master Andreas von Westfalen, who acts as…

1270 CE

Vice-Master Andreas von Westfalen, who acts as a Grand Master before proper elections can be held, decides to restore lost morale of the knights by winning a quick victory.

In summer 1270, he learns of another Lithuanian raid into Livonia and hurries his soldiers to seek out the enemy.

While the knights are resting, the Lithuanians attack their camp and kill von Westfalen and twenty more knights.

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Riga Gorod Riga Latvia View →

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Otto von Lutterberg View → Traidenis View →

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Polytheism (“paganism”) View → Semigallians (Eastern Balts) View → Lithuanians (Eastern Balts) View → Papal States (Republic of St. Peter) View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Teutonic Knights of Acre (House of the Hospitalers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem) View → Livonian Order View → Lithuania, Grand Duchy of View →

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Crusades, The View → Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion View → Northern Crusades, or Baltic Crusades View → Teutonic Knights' Conquest of Prussia View →

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