Mindaugas accepts a crown from Pope Innocent …
Years: 1254 - 1254
Mindaugas accepts a crown from Pope Innocent IV in 1254; this new status helps him to contain the threat from the German Knights.
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Balts
- Germans
- Teutonic Knights of Acre (House of the Hospitalers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem)
- Livonian Order
- Lithuania, Grand Duchy of
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Northern Crusades, or Baltic Crusades
