History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 244, the Baltic Crusades, the Prussian Crusade, Part 13, the Second Prussian insurrection.

Hello again.

Last week we examined the period of crisis for the Latin Christians of Lovonia in the years following the two years of peace.

When the peace treaty expired in the year 1259, the Samagitsians returned to their aggressive warlike ways, and the repeated failure of the

Teutonic order in Lavonia to bring them into line sparked off major rebellions across the region, with

Lithuania reverting to paganism and even the people of Eisl, well to the north of the land corridor, rising in rebellion.

So things were looking pretty grim in Livonia in the years following the expiration of the peace treaty.

What were they like in Prussia? Well, we're about to find out.

Now, last time we checked in on Prussia, it was to follow the decade or so long battle between the Teutonic Order and Duke Schvelte-Pelk of Pomeralia and his native Prussian allies, a conflict known as the first Prussian insurrection.

Following this insurrection, the Order spent its time subduing the Sam Landers in the north of Prussia.

Then we had the two beautiful years of peace when everyone in the region downed their

weapons started trading and took up basket weaving.

Now when the truce expired and the Samagitsians started causing trouble in

curland that may have raised the eyebrows of the Master of the order in Prussia.

When the failure of the Teutonic order in Lovonia to force the Samagitsians back into line

sparked large-scale uprisings amongst the Semagalians and the Kurs,

those eyebrows may have formed into a frown.

Whose eyebrows are we talking about here? Well, the

current master of the Teutonic order in Prussia is a man called Hartman von

Grumbach, who replaced Dietrich von Grunigan as master during the final year of the two years of peace.

Now, Master Hartman was not terribly popular with the Knights of the Order. He is described by

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