History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 314, the Baltic, the Baltic Crusades, the Lithuanian conflict part 19, the Council of Constance Part 3.

Hello again.

Last week we continued our look at a very important church council

currently taking place on our timeline, the Council of Constance.

We had already seen the Council resolve the People's schism

by binning the three popes who were sitting at the time

the council began its deliberations and replacing them with a single new pope

Pope Martin the 5th.

Then we saw the Council order the execution of the dissident Bohemian Church Reformer

Yarn-Huss, an event which will have major ramifications for the church

further down the track. Finally last week we turned to the business which concerns us at the Council, the submissions

made by the Teutonic Order.

We saw the Order commence its presentation to the council only to be interrupted when

Emperor Sigismund declared that he needed to leave and head to Spain to deal with some imperial business.

Archbishop Johannes Volenroader of Riga offered to accompany the Emperor on his journey and the order decided to keep Teutonic and

Baltic Matters at the forefront of the Council's mines by requesting a ruling on two trivial matters which it wanted

resolved. However, the Order's strategy was blown out of the water when the delegates from the Kingdom of Poland and the

Grand Duchy of Lithuania launched a couple of bombshell declarations into the Council's proceedings, with Lithuania declaring that

it had managed to convert the feared and savage Tartars to Christianity and Poland putting its hand up and stating that it

had a plan to unite the Orthodox and Latin Christian churches. Suddenly everyone on the council and all the

powerful men who were in Constance for the meeting were focused squarely on matters Baltic, but to the horror of the Teutonic Order,

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