History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 300 and 2, the Baltic Crusades, the Lithuanian conflict part 7, the Battle of Tenburg Part 1.

Hello again.

Last week we examined the Peace Treaty which was brokered by King Wensselas of Bohemia in February of the year 1410 following the Teutonic

orders invasion of the kingdom of Poland. The Teutonic order had thrown a significant amount of money in Wensloss's direction and in the

direction of Wensloss Lass's brother, Sigismund of Hungary, and their investment had paid off.

The King of Bohemia managed to create an agreement which was heavily waited in the order's favour.

When the Polish delegates attempted to lobby King Wensselas to reassess the terms of the peace agreement, he lost patience with

them and sent them packing, threatening to use the armies of Bohemia to invade Poland if they didn't sit back down and take their medicine.

Kinga Gila of Poland, however, wasn't the sort of man to be intimidated into taking bad medicine,

by either Grandmaster Urich von Ewingen or by King Wenzless Lass of Bohemia.

He ignored the terms of the peace treaty and instead began gathering his forces.

A suddenly nervous King Wensselas sent a couple of messages to

Yagila implying that perhaps the terms of the treaty could be renegotiated, but Yagila rejected all proposals to reopen the talks.

When King Wensselas sent Yagila a formal summons in May of 1410.

Ordering his attendance at a conference in Breslau,

Yugila announced that no Polish delegates would be attending.

King Wenslass last travelled to Breslau, as did delegates from the Teutonic Order, but they were

forced to abandon the conference when no one from Poland showed up.

Instead of attending the conference,

Yugilah spent his time gathering his armies and he sent word to Vitortis that he should do likewise.

Both Eugyla and Vitortis agreed that the combined Polish and Lithuanian forces should meet in

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