History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 306 the Baltic Crusades the Lithuanian conflict part 11 the siege the siege of

Marionburg hello again the Siege of Marienburg.

Hello again.

Last week we saw King Yugyla of Poland make his way towards the seat of power of the Teutonic Order, the city of Marionburg.

The old conquering Victor of the Battle of Tannenberg spent much of his time on the road to Marionburg, receiving offers of surrender

from Prussian castles, towns and villages, and Yagila fully expected the city of Marienburg to do the same.

However, the Castellan of Schvettes castle, a man named Heinrich of Plowen, had other ideas.

He raced with the garrison of Schvets to Marienburg and readied Marienburg castle for a siege.

As a result, by the time Yagaila arrived at Marienburg, the castle was fully defended and garrisoned and held enough supplies to hold

out for a period of between 8 to 10 weeks.

Not to be deterred, Yagila confiscated cannon and catapult machines from nearby castles

and ordered his forces to begin pummeling the castle walls.

At the same time he sent part of his army out across Prussia to seek the surrender of the remaining towns and

strongholds which had not yet submitted to Polish rule.

Fast forward eight weeks and Yagila had still not managed to breach the defences of Marionburg

castle. The good news was that pretty much all of Prussia had

surrendered to Poland except for its two Premier towns, Kearningsburg and Marienburg. But the bad news was that much of

his army was getting restless and was eager for the siege to finish. The Lithuanian

members of the army were struck down with some sort of stomach complaint which

some commentators believed, was caused by the rich Prussian food,

so Grand Duke V. Tortoise announced that he was taking the Lithuanians back home.

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