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A History of Europe, Key Battles

35.2 Teutonic Knights and Medieval Poland

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

History

4.4756 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Struggle for Pomerania and Danzig/Gdansk between the native population, Teutonic knights and Kingdom of Poland. Teutonic knights move base to Marienberg. King Casimir the Great of Poland. Dynastic union of Poland and Lithuania in 1390's. Includes quotes from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Picture: Marienburg/Malbork fortress (visitmalbork.pl)

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The Welcome to a history of Europe,

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the Battle of Grunvald, also known as Tenenberg of 1410, part two of four.

1:49.3

Thank you. Part 2 of 4 Last week I discussed the rise to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus. By the mid-14th century,

1:54.3

the rulers of Lithuania were at the head of one of the largest and most powerful states in Europe,

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and had grand ambitions to expand yet further. Their main rivals for control of the southeastern Baltic coastline, the main subject

2:02.6

of this set of episodes, were the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Knights. The main regions of

2:08.5

conflict were Samagetia and Pomerania, both covered it by various sides for their strategic importance.

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The region of Samagetia, today in northwestern Lithuania, lies to the east of Pomerania,

2:24.2

and in the south-west of Livonia, approximately Latvia and Estonia today.

2:29.9

And so it became an important land bridge between the two.

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As for Pomerania, also known as Western Prussia, its name originates from the Slavic for By the Sea.

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