History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 298, the Baltic, the Baltic Crusades, the Lithuanian conflict part 3, trying times.

Hello again.

Last week we saw Samagetzia rise up in rebellion,

which in turn around suspicions in the Grandmaster as to be Tortoise's involvement in some

a gyzian affairs. The Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order ended up invading Lithuania with the aim of Aousting V tortoise and placing

the Order's new ally, one of Yagila's younger brothers, into the position of Grand Duke of Lithuania.

However, while the two-pronged Teutonic raid into Lithuania netted the order a bunch of prisoners and caused a great deal of damage, it didn't end up defeating the tortoise who left Lithuania to deal some devastating blows to Teutonic possessions in Samagizia and Lovonia.

By the end of last week's episode both sides had had enough of the destructive conflict

and had met to thrash out a peace agreement.

The attempts to broker a peace deal which both sides could accept continued on and off until a breakthrough occurred in May of the year 1404.

Interestingly, these peace talks didn't involve Vy tortoise,

who was off campaigning in the Russian principalities,

but the two principal attendees

Grandmaster Conrad von Jungingen and the King of Poland

Yogila managed to come up with an arrangement which involved all three parties, the

Grandmaster, Yogila and Vitortis, reaffirming the Treaty of Salenverder, and it also involved the Grand Master

agreeing to renounce the Teutonic Order's claim on the strategically important town of Dobron.

Yagila in particular was pleased with the Dobron part of the agreement

and he managed to convince a reluctant Vitortis to agree to the terms of the agreement which

he signed at RITESVEDR in August of 1404. Now the fact that the Treaty of Salinverter has just been reaffirmed is of course very bad news for the Samagetsians as one of the terms of the Treaty of Salinverder was that

Lithuania would drop all of its claims to Samagetsia, which in effect meant that Poland and Lithuania would now need to stand back

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