History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 279, the Baltic Crusades, the Samagetian Crusade Part 12, a failed conversion. Now before we get to this week's episode I have a

correction to make from two episodes ago. Back in episode

two hundred and seventy 277 I mentioned that the Henry Bolingbroke who attempted to go

crusading to Lithuania was the Henry Bolingbroke who ended up becoming King Henry the 4th.

Well, it turns out that that was entirely incorrect.

The Henry Bollingbroke who tried to go and crusade is actually the grandfather of the Henry

Bolingbroke who became King Henry the 4th.

Just to make things even more confusing, the Henry Bolingbroke who became King Henry the 4th did

actually join the Baltic Crusades, but not until much later on our timeline.

A big shout out and thank you goes to Mark Souters,

who has been doing a fine job transcribing episodes on the Baltic Crusades for pointing this out, which goes to show

that having a transcriber who also fact checks is a very fine thing, So thanks Mark. Okay so last week we saw relations between the

Teutonic order and the Kingdom of Poland deteriorate following the order's of the mazovian town of Dobrin.

Pope Innocent the 6th and his former student the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV of Bohemia, did their best to remedy the situation,

but nothing they did prevented the relationship between the two regional powers from becoming rather troubled.

We left last week's episode with the news that the Archbishop of Prague had been appointed to travel to Vilnius in Lithuania

to negotiate the conversion of the two Lithuanian leaders, Kestutus and Algirdus, to Christianity.

Now, before we go ahead and follow the Archbishop on his bid to bring Christianity to the

Lithuanian pagans, we should pause for a moment to discuss

Lovonia. Now, some of you may have noticed that we haven't mentioned Lovonia since episode 274.

Our last episode on the Estonian insurrection.

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