781:. The army invaded Natangia and besieged an unnamed Natangian castle. While the assault claimed 150 lives of the crusaders, most of Natangian resistance was broken and the region was decimated. Herkus Monte, with a small group of his followers, was forced to withdraw to the forests of southern Prussia. Within a year he was captured and hanged. The last Prussian leader, Glappe of Warmians, was hanged when his siege campaign on Brandenburg (now Ushakovo) was attacked from the rear. The last tribe standing were the Pogesanians, who made a surprise raid into Elbing and ambushed its garrison. In 1274 the Knights made a great expedition to avenge this raid, capturing the rebel headquarters at Heilsberg (
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and fight on land soaked by water from melting snow or autumn rains. Summer campaigns were most dangerous as the
Knights would immediately build new castles in the conquered territory. The Teutonic Knight's strategy proved successful: in ten years, five of the seven major Prussian clans fell under control of the less-numerous Teutonic Knights. However, the Prussians further resisted the conquerors, leading to five uprisings over the following fifty years.
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saw twelve knights and 500 men killed. The
Prussians immediately assaulted Christburg and almost captured it. The Prussians were looting the surrounding area when cavalry from Elbing arrived. Many of the Prussian infantry perished while cavalry escaped. Despite these losses, Diwane was soon back and
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The major
Prussian offensive was organized in 1271 together with Linka, leader of the Pogesanians. The Bartian infantry and Pogesanians besieged a border castle, but were fended off by the Knights from Christburg. The Prussians who managed to escape joined their cavalry while the Knights established
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When the Dukes returned home, Brandenburg was captured by Glappe and his
Warmians. The very next year Otto returned to rebuild the castle. Both John and Otto died before the end of 1267, and Otto's son was killed in a tournament. Subsequent Dukes of Brandenburg were not as supportive of the Knights.
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River. While some historians embrace the
Swantopolk–Prussian alliance without hesitation, others are more careful. They point out that the historical information came from documents written by the Teutonic Knights and must have been ideologically charged to persuade the Pope to declare a crusade not
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but as soon as the army returned home, the
Sambians resumed the siege and were reinforced by Herkus Monte and his Natangians. Herkus was later injured and the Natangians retreated, leaving the Sambians unable to stop supplies reaching the castle and the siege eventually failed. Prussians were more
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to serve as basis for future expansion. In 1231–1242, forty such castles were built. The
Prussians faced major difficulties in capturing these castles as they were accustomed only to combat in open fields. Most conflicts occurred either in summer or winter. Heavily armoured knights could not travel
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After the Great
Uprising, the Prussians rose a number of times against the Knights, but these uprisings were much smaller in scale and posed no real danger to the Teutonic Knights, who could concentrate on further conquests. The number of uprisings is variously considered to be two or three. They
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in 1249, the
Knights refused to negotiate with the Prussians. The Prussians were also unable to coordinate their efforts and develop a common strategy: while each clan had its own leader, there was no single leader of all the clans. The Natangians had to watch for attacks from Balga, Brandenburg,
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in the border regions. Small groups of men, a dozen to a hundred, made quick raids on farms, villages, border posts, etc. This was a positional warfare where neither side could defeat the other, but the
Teutonic Knights relied on future reinforcements from Germany and Europe, while Prussians were
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and relied on siege forts, built around the castle, to cut the supplies to the garrisons. The Teutonic Knights could not raise large armies to deliver supplies to the starving garrisons and smaller castles began to fall. Those castles were usually destroyed and the Prussians manned just a few
95:. The Prussians were successful at first, reducing the Knights to only five of their strongest castles. The duke then suffered a series of military defeats and was eventually forced to make peace with the Teutonic Knights. With Duke Swietopelk's support for the Prussians broken, a prelate of
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cut off the region from the rest of Prussia. Supplies to Königsberg were brought by sea, and the castle served as the basis for raids in surrounding Samland (Sambia). The Livonian Order sent troops to Königsberg and the joint forces defeated the Sambians in a decisive battle forcing them to
614:. The Prussians destroyed captured forts instead of using them for their own defence, so the end of successful sieges meant that large Prussian forces did not have to stay near their home and were then free to operate in other parts of Prussia, raiding the Culmerland and
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of Sambia, convinced the Sambians not to join the insurrection; Natangians and Warmians had also accepted baptism and promised their loyalty to the Knights. The Pogesanians alone continued the fight and were crushed. Survivors with their Bartian chief escaped to
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The peace talks that began in 1247 achieved little, but a new truce was arranged in September 1248 and peace was made on 24 November 1248. Swantopolk had to return lands seized from his brothers, allow Teutonic Knights to pass through his domains, stop charging
411:, to handle the peace negotiations. However, the war was renewed in 1247 when large Teutonic reinforcements arrived in Prussia. On Christmas Eve of 1247 the Knights besieged and overwhelmed a major Pomeranian fortress, which they later renamed Christburg (
765:), blocking the route home. When Christians retired for the night, one half of the Prussian army crossed the river in a distance, to attack the Knights from the rear, while the other half charged straight across the river. The Knights were encircled. The
549:), because they lacked technology to defend the captured castles and organization to provide food and supplies to stationed garrisons. On 29 August 1261 Jacob of Liège, who negotiated the Treaty of Christburg after the first uprising, was elected as
537:, leader of the Sudovians. However, there was no one leader to coordinate efforts of these different forces. Herkus Monte, who was educated in Germany, became the best known and most successful of the leaders, but he commanded only his Natangians.
118:, and the position of the Order looked set to worsen. The Prussians lacked unity and a common strategy and reinforcements finally reached Prussia in around 1265. One by one, the Prussian clans surrendered and the uprising was ended in 1274.
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Wehlau, and Königsberg while the Warmians were threatened by garrisons at Christburg and Elbing. This way only Diwane and his Bartians were able to continue the war in the west. They made several minor expeditions to Culmerland each year.
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The later three lesser uprisings relied on foreign assistance and were suppressed within one or two years. The last uprising in 1295 effectively ended the Prussian Crusade, and Prussia became a Christian territory with a number of
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in three years of his papacy calling for reinforcements to the Knights. However, the reinforcements were slow to come as dukes of Poland and Germany were preoccupied with their own disputes and the Livonian Order was fighting the
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The last two Prussian attempts to rid itself of the Teutonic rule were made relying on the foreign powers who were enemies of the Knights. The first one in 1286, also known as the fourth uprising, depended upon help from the
793:. Local nobles had to convert and give hostages, and only a few of them were granted privileges to retain their noble status. From 1274 to 1283 the Teutonic Knights conquered Skalvians, Nadruvians, and Sudovians/Yotvingians.
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Prussians. In the first ten years of the crusade, five of the seven major Prussian clans fell under the control of the less numerous Teutonic Knights. However, the Prussians rose against their conquerors on five occasions.
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The year of 1265 was the turning point in the uprising: more substantial reinforcements for the Teutonic Knights started arriving in Prussia and Sambia abandoned the fight. Teutonic castles in Königsberg and Wehlau on the
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and Lithuania. Lithuanian historians note that fierce resistance by the Prussians won time for the young Lithuanian state to mature and strengthen so it could withstand the hundred-year crusade, culminating in the 1410
352:, Swantopolk's castle on the banks of the Vistula. The ensuing five-week siege of Sartowice failed to recapture the fortress and Swantopolk lost 900 men. In the spring of 1243, Swantopolk also lost the castle at Nakel (
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The Knights proceeded to rebuild and strengthen castles destroyed by the Prussians. A number of Prussians escaped either to Sudovia or to Lithuania, or were resettled by the Knights. Many free peasants were made into
879:, who after the 16th century eventually outnumbered the natives. It is estimated that around 1400 Prussians numbered 100,000 and comprised about half of the total population in Prussia. The Prussians were subject to
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was fighting against the Knights, who supported his brothers' dynastic claims against him. It has been implied that the new castles of the Knights were competing with his lands over the trade routes along the
851:, the grandson of Swantopolk. The plot was soon revealed and the Bartians and Pogesanians suffered the consequences. In 1295 the last uprising was limited to Natangia and Sambia and depended upon help from
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on 7 February 1249. The treaty provided personal freedom and rights to newly converted Christians. It formally ended the uprising, but already in November 1249 the Natangians defeated the Knights at the
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A recovered Herkus Monte raided Culmerland with a large force and took many prisoners in 1263. While returning to Natangia, Herkus and his men were confronted by a contingent of their enemies. In the
444:. The skirmishes lasted until 1253 and some sources cite this year as the end of the uprising. At that point the treaty ceased its political power but remained an interesting historical document.
235:, the Knights did not repeat the mistakes of the previous Order and did not push eastwards into the forest of the interior. They would further build fortified log (later brick and stone)
863:, but were never a serious threat. By that time Prussian nobility was already baptized and pro-Teutonic to the extent that peasants killed them first before attacking the Knights.
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368:. Some 400 Teutonic soldiers perished, including their marshal. Swantopolk, encouraged by the defeat, gathered an army of 2,000 men and unsuccessfully besieged Culm (Chełmno).
223:, who began a number of expeditions and crusades against the Prussians and later asked the Knights to protect him from raids by the Prussians. Preoccupied with crusades in the
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participated twice in the Prussian Crusade: in 1254, when he founded Königsberg, named in his honor, and in 1267, when he helped to suppress the Great Prussian Uprising.
423:. Swantopolk retaliated and destroyed Christburg, but the Knights rebuilt it in a new location. Both Prussian and Swantopolk's armies failed to capture the new castle.
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The Prussians besieged many castles that the Knights had built and could not send large armies to fight in the west. Prussians were not familiar with Western European
215:, they were outnumbered by attacks from Poland, Ruthenians in the southeast and the Teutonic Knights from the west. The Teutonic Order was called to the
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negotiated a peace treaty between the Prussians and the Knights. This treaty was never honored or enforced, especially after the Prussian victory in the
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Christiansen counts at least two and hints at the third, Urban counts three, but argues that the fourth "was not an insurrection at all" (p. 369),
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The first Prussian uprising was influenced by three major events. Firstly, the Livonian Knights – a subsidiary of the Teutonic Knights – lost the
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were suppressed within a year or two and showed exhaustion and division of the Prussian tribes. The third uprising in 1276 was provoked by
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help raided the Culmerland (Chełmno Land) and, on their way back, defeated the pursuing Teutonic Knights on 15 June on the banks of the
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610:), and the Knights were left only with strongholds in Balga, Elbing, Culm, Thorn, and Königsberg. Most castles fell in 1262–1263, and
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A non-contemporary illustration of Teutonic triumph in Prussia: a native Prussian man is crushed by the victorious Teutonic Knights (
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The first reinforcement to the Teutonic forces arrived in early 1261, but was wiped out on 21 January 1261 by Herkus Monte in the
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blocked roads leading to Christburg hoping to starve the castle. Diwane was killed during a siege of a small post at Schönsee (
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that ensued, Prussians killed 40 knights, including the Master and the Marshal. The Prussians also received help from
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577:(1261–1264) was especially supportive of the Teutonic cause in Prussia. He served as a papal prelate negotiating the
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553:. He, having an inside scope on events in Prussia, was especially favourable to the Teutonic Knights and issued 22
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403:, and another one in early 1246, where 1,500 Pomeranians were killed. Swantopolk II asked for a truce and
1214:(in Lithuanian). Vol. 3. Vilnius, Lithuania: Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija. pp. 459–460.
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on ships using the Vistula, and stop any aid to the Prussians. Prussians were compelled to sign the
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successful capturing castles deeper into the Prussian territory (with an exception of Wehlau, now
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draining their local resources. After the massacre of surrendered Teutonic soldiers in the
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of Lithuania and subsequent dynastic fights prevented Lithuanians from further campaigns.
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383:, brothers of Swantopolk, hoped to regain their inheritance. Swantopolk built a castle at
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and eventually became extinct sometime after the 16th century. It is believed that the
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489:. As the uprising was spreading through Prussian lands, each clan chose a leader: the
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348:) in the western parts. In December 1242, the Knights were able to capture
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and Warcisław briefly joined the Prussians in the uprising. In 1267 King
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Jonynas, Ignas (1937). "Christburgo taika". In Vaclovas Biržiška (ed.).
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938:(in Lithuanian). Vol. 5. Kaunas: Spaudos Fondas. pp. 459–464.
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1647:(in Lithuanian). Vol. 6. Kaunas: Spaudos Fondas. p. 1084.
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surrender. In 1265 reinforcements arrived from Germany: armies of
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Ivinskis, Zenonas (1937). "Divanas". In Vaclovas Biržiška (ed.).
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1892:(in Lithuanian) (2nd ed.). Gimtasis žodis. pp. 73–74.
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to fulfil his crusader duties in Prussia. This army broke the
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arrived in Prussia, but were unable to achieve much. In 1266
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raided Warmia and Natangia, forcing the locals to surrender.
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in April 1242. Secondly, southern Poland was devastated by a
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645:, killing Duke Siemowit I, and raided Culmerland, provoking
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as "the great Prussian uprising", was prompted by the 1260
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Although the Prussians repelled early incursions by the
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and Christian Europe, sought to conquer and convert the
1855:(in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Elektroninės leidybos namai.
1109:(in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Elektroninės leidybos namai.
994:(in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Elektroninės leidybos namai.
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Simas Sužiedėlis, ed. (1970–1978). "Mantas, Herkus".
407:appointed his chaplain, Jacob of Liège, the future
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761:a camp on the opposite bank of the Dargune River (
589:. In January 1262 reinforcements arrived from the
529:. One clan that did not join the uprising was the
231:(Thorn), which was completed a year later. Led by
481:military victory against the joint forces of the
1504:Simas Sužiedėlis, ed. (1970–1978). "Skomantas".
649:to join the uprising. The assassination of King
298:Prussians but also against the Christian duke.
71:that took place in the 13th century during the
256:Ruins of the Teutonic castle in Rehden (today
1322:. University of Nebraska Press. p. 379.
456:Map of the Prussian clans in the 13th century
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375:were given territories in Prussia, Dukes of
1942:Wars involving the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
843:, who fled there after the Great Uprising.
391:separated from the Vistula, and launched a
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954:"Ar priminsime Europai apie Šiaulių mūšį?"
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91:The first uprising was supported by Duke
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877:repopulated by colonists from Germany
533:. The uprising was also supported by
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545:castles, notably one in Heilsberg (
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1947:Wars involving the Teutonic Order
1847:"Ordinai ir baltų genčių likimai"
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55:were two major and three smaller
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356:), which dominated trade on the
93:Swietopelk II, Duke of Pomerania
36:. For uprisings in Silesia, see
1888:Sabaliauskas, Algirdas (2002).
1845:Kulikauskas, Gediminas (2002).
1754:counts two (in 1276 and 1295),
1099:Kulikauskas, Gediminas (2002).
984:Kulikauskas, Gediminas (2002).
797:Further uprisings and aftermath
417:Henry III, Margrave of Meissen
137:Timeline of Teutonic conquest
106:The second uprising, known in
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379:received Nakel, and Dukes of
485:and Teutonic Knights in the
1066:Christiansen, Eric (1997).
785:) and ending the uprising.
542:siege tactics and machinery
239:along major rivers and the
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1319:History of the Art of War
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1316:Delbreuck, Hans (1990).
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258:Radzyń Chełmiński Castle
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469:Preparation and tactics
425:Otto III of Brandenburg
34:Greater Poland Uprising
18:Great Prussian Uprising
1820:Bojtár, Endre (1999).
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579:Treaty of Christburg
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103:at the end of 1249.
1254:, pp. 207, 209–210.
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754:Christoph Hartknoch
603:siege of Königsberg
221:Konrad I of Masovia
79:, supported by the
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1085:978-0-14-026653-5
1041:978-0-929700-28-1
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889:Prussian language
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599:Pope Alexander IV
442:Battle of Krücken
354:Nakło nad Notecią
346:Radzyń Chełmiński
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