Skomantas, with help from Lithuanians, had led …
Years: 1281 - 1281
Skomantas, with help from Lithuanians, had led four thousand men against the Teutonic Knights after the Great Prussian Uprising,
The Old Prussians and other Balts are losing their power, however.
Skomantas' estate is devastated in 1280–1281 and he escapes with three sons, Rukals, Gedetes and Galms, to Black Ruthenia, controlled at this time by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Prussians, Old, or Baltic (Western Balts)
- Yotvingians, or Sudovians (Western Balts)
- Sambians (Western Balts)
- Lithuanians (Eastern Balts)
- Germans
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Warmians (Prussian Clan)
- Poles (West Slavs)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Pogesanians (Prussian clan)
- Natangians (Prussian clan)
- Poland during the period of fragmentation, Kingdom of
- Poland, Greater
- Teutonic Knights of Acre (House of the Hospitalers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem)
- Lithuania, Grand Duchy of
- Galicia–Volhynia, Kingdom of
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Northern Crusades, or Baltic Crusades
- Livonian Crusade
