Ottokar II also leads two crusade expeditions …
Years: 1255 - 1255
Ottokar II also leads two crusade expeditions against the pagan Old Prussians.
Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), founded in 1255 by the Teutonic Order, is named in his honor; it will later become the capital of Ducal Prussia.
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Prussians, Old, or Baltic (Western Balts)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Austria, Archduchy of
- Styria, Duchy of
- Teutonic Knights of Acre (House of the Hospitalers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem)
- Bohemia, Kingdom of
- Hungary, Kingdom of
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Teutonic Knights' Conquest of Prussia
