History of the Crusades

the Crusades Episode 319, the Baltic Crusades, the Lithuanian Conflict Part 24, many endings.

Hello again.

Last week we saw one of our main players exit the stage,

leaving a succession crisis in his wake.

Vy tortoise, or Vy tortoise the great, as he later became known, is a revered figure in Lithuanian history, and for good reason. He steered Lithuania through the choppy waters

of the Baltic Crusades and under his leadership it transformed itself from a pagan state to a Latin Christian power

player. However, despite his many achievements, Vitortis never managed to father a son.

And as we saw at the conclusion of last week's episode,

his death sparked a succession crisis. The official air to the

Lithuanian Grand Duchy was the aging King Eugyla of Poland but the Lithuanian people were largely against being led by

Yagila because of rising anti-Polish and anti-Latin Christian feelings surfacing across the country, which was increasingly leaning

away from Poland and the Latin Christian West towards the Russian Orthodox East.

The Holy Roman Empire and the Teutonic Order

were also dead against Yoguiler becoming the ruler of Lithuania, as they had recently both been

busy trying to place a handbreak on the rising power of the Kingdom of Poland, and having the Kingdom of Poland

effectively expand its territory all the way east to Russia was the last thing they wanted to see happen.

Unfortunately though, all the other contenders to take V.

V. Tortoise's place were currently children, which resulted in the Teutonic

order throwing its support behind an outsider in the leadership race. That outsider being our old friend, the double crossing, treacherous

jailbreaker and obnoxious heavy drinker, Shrit Raghyla.

Now we should drinker, Shrit Raghyla.

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