History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 300 and Episode 307, the Baltic Crusades, the Lithuanian Conflict Part 12, the First piece of torn.

Hello again.

Last week we saw Kinagila of Poland retreat from Prussia, having failed to take the city of Marionburg.

Heinrich of Plowen and the remaining members of the Teutonic Order then successfully managed to retake all the castles, towns and cities

conquered by the invaders. After having been elected to the position of Grand Master of the Order,

Heinrich was keen to launch an immediate invasion into the kingdom of Poland, but instead was forced to bow to public pressure and commence

peace negotiations with King Agilah and Grant Duke V tortoise of Lithuania.

We left last week's episode with the parties having signed a peace treaty at Torn on the 1st of February 1411, a document which later came

to be known as the first piece of torn. Oddly though, none of the parties to the

agreement came away from the negotiations, happy with the way things had turned out. We are now going to examine why the first

piece of torn left everyone feeling grumpy, confused and upset. Now as we stated in last week's episode it's

probably not terribly surprising that the Teutonic Order was unhappy with the terms of the peace treaty.

The Order had, after all, suffered a massive defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg, and as such was likely to be the party forced to make the

most concessions.

One of the biggest concessions the order was forced to make was an agreement to relinquish its claim to Samagetia.

This was clearly a huge loss for the order which had been fighting to wrestle Samagizia into submission for a number of years.

However, under the terms of the treaty, Samagizia was to revert back to the Teutonic order

after the death of both Kingagila and Grand Duke Vy tortoise.

At this point in time, neither Eugyla nor V tortoise were young men,

so the loss of Samagizia was tempered by the fact that depending on the

longevity of the current leaders of Poland and Lithuania, Samagetsia may actually be back in the Order's hands in the not-too-distant

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