Swietopolk II, the Polish duke of Pomerania, …
Years: 1242 - 1242
November
Swietopolk II, the Polish duke of Pomerania, sensing a threat in the expanding military-monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, initiates war in 1242 by encouraging a Prussian insurrection.
Locations
People
Groups
- Prussians, Old, or Baltic (Western Balts)
- Poles (West Slavs)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Pomerania, Polish Duchy of
- Mazovia, Duchy of
- Poland during the period of fragmentation, Kingdom of
- Teutonic Knights of Acre (House of the Hospitalers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem)
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Poland, Fragmentation of
- Northern Crusades, or Baltic Crusades
- Teutonic Knights' Conquest of Prussia
- Prussian Uprising, First
