Gollub War

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The Gollub War was a two-month war of the Teutonic Knights against the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1422.

The First Peace of Thorn in 1411 had ostensibly ended conflicts between the warring powers of the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War, although hostilities resumed in 1414. In response to nighttime raids by the Teutonic Order, Polish forces devastated many districts of the order. Even though the Poles were unable to capture the strongly fortified Ordensburgen of the Knights, many of the crusaders' lands were depopulated by famine or slaughter.^[1] King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland demanded the western territories of the order's state. In response Grand Master Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg countered with charters and appeals to the Imperial tribunal at Breslau from 1418-1422. In the latter year, however, Władysław invaded Prussia.

Władysław's forces quickly captured Löbau and Riesenburg, although the Polish king bypassed the Order's fortified capital of Marienburg. Heading south, the Poles then captured Gollub and Schönsee.^[2] Władysław decided to end the war quickly before the overwhelmed Prussian troops of the Order could receive reinforcements from the Holy Roman Empire that Küchmeister's successor Paul von Rusdorf had requested.^[3] A truce was signed on September 17, 1422, and the war concluded ten days later with the Treaty of Melno. This ended the fights between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights temporarily. Poland fought with the order once again during the Polish-Teutonic War (1431-1435), and then Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466) and later.

[edit] References

1. ^ Seward, Desmond. The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders. Penguin Books. London, 1995. ISBN 0-14-019501-7
2. ^ Turnbull, Stephen. Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights. Osprey. Oxford, 2003. ISBN 1-84176-561-9
3. ^ Christiansen, Eric. The Northern Crusades. Penguin Books. London, 1997. ISBN 0-14-026653-4