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After the Totts war with the Teutonic Order, the conflict between the latter and the Archbishop of Riga, the "scheming" Sylvester, flared up again. Responding to this, the Swedish council allied with the Archbishop and sent five ships with 200 men onboard towards Salis in the Gulf of Riga, with other ships being said to have lost in accidents.
The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society c. 1190 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem was formed to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to establish hospitals.
Under the treaty, the residents of Kneiphof were granted full amnesty for their participation in the anti-Teutonic rebellion in 1454, as well as for their involvement in the fighting in 1455. Opponents of the Teutonic Order, as well as Prussian forces and Gdańsk merchants, were allowed to leave the city within two months with their belongings.
Heinrich Walpot von Bassenheim (died 1200), also known as Henry Walpot, was the first Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights serving from 1198 to sometime before 1208. [ 1 ] As little is known about him, information regarding the Grand Master is mostly based on historians' theories. [ 1 ]
The Battle of Grunwald [a] was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.The alliance of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila), and Grand Duke Vytautas, decisively defeated the German Teutonic Order, led by Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen.
At Jurbarkas, the Teutonic Grandmaster Konrad Zöllner von Rotenstein died; the coalition decided to abandon the siege and march on Vilnius instead. One contingent of the army was led by Vytautas and a marshal of the Teutonic Order, and the other contingent, made up of Livonian Order troops, was led by the new Grandmaster Konrad von Wallenrode.
The Teutonic Order initially planned to incorporate all of Lithuania into the Teutonic State, as it had with Prussia, but those plans faced strong Lithuanian resistance. [13] The Teutonic Order's principal objective was to conquer the Lithuanian lowland region, Samogitia, and build fortresses there to solidify their control.
Švitrigaila's alliance with the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Paul von Rusdorf, launched the Polish–Teutonic War (1431–1435) but failed to secure victory for Švitrigaila. [ 5 ] When Sigismund seized power in Lithuania by staging a coup in 1432, Lithuania split into two opposing camps, and there began three years of devastating ...