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The Teutonic Order, who also held claims regarding Pomerelia, had inherited Mewe from Sambor II, thus gaining a foothold on the left bank of the Vistula. [ 42 ] At the beginning of the 14th century, the region was plunged into war involving local Pomeranian nobility and the principality of Margraviate of Brandenburg to the west, which had ...
The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a ... Control of Pomerelia allowed the Order to connect their monastic state with the borders of the ...
Pomerelia, [a] also known as Eastern Pomerania, [b] ... The revolt of the Old Prussians against the Teutonic Order in 1242 took place in the context of these ...
Wenceslaus, who with the Polish crown had also acquired the claim to Pomerelia, called the Teutonic Order for help. [8] The Teutonic knights occupied Gdańsk, repelled the princes of Rügen, and left the town in 1302. [8] [10] While the Norwegian king Haakon backed Rügen's claims, his 1302 call to the Hanseatic cities for aid remained without ...
Wenceslaus, who with the Polish crown had also acquired the claim to Pomerelia, called the Teutonic Order for help. The Teutonic knights occupied Gdańsk, repelled the princes of Rügen, and left the town in 1302. While the Norwegian king Haakon backed Rügen's claims, his 1302 call to the Hanseatic cities for aid remained without answer.
Wartislaw II and Sambor II continued to fight from exile, aided by the Duchy of Inowrocław and the State of the Teutonic Order, while Mestwin had allied with Bolesław the Pious, ruler of the Duchy of Greater Poland. In 1271, the war was joined by the Margraviate of Brandenburg who attempted to conquer the Duchy of Pomerelia. The war ended in ...
Władysław reacted by calling the forces of the Teutonic Order, who, under the command of Heinrich von Plötzke in 1308, re-conquered Gdańsk and most of Pomerelia. However, after the Teutonic takeover , they denied the handover to Władysław, as the duke refused to pay the requested expense allowance.
Previously allies against the Baltic tribe of the Old Prussians, Poland and the Teutonic Order engaged in a series of Polish-Teutonic Wars after the Knights' capture of Pomerelia. Between 1361 and 1416 the city's burghers rose in several armed revolts against the rule of the Teutonic Knights.