The Livonian Order receives reinforcements from the …
Years: 1298 - 1298
The Livonian Order receives reinforcements from the Teutonic Knights and defeats residents of Riga and Lithuanians near Neuermühlen on June 28.
Some four thousand Rigans and Lithuanians die at Neuermühlen, according to inflated numbers reported by Peter von Dusburg.
The knights proceed to besiege and capture Riga.
After Eric VI of Denmark threatens to invade Livonia to assist Archbishop Johannes III, a truce is reached and the conflict is mediated by Pope Boniface VII.
The conflict is not resolved, however, and the alliance between Lithuania and Riga will continue for another fifteen years.
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Latvians, or Letts (Eastern Balts)
- Lithuanians (Eastern Balts)
- Denmark, Kingdom of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Terra Mariana (Livonian Confederation)
- Livonian Order
- Lithuania, Grand Duchy of
- Teutonic Knights of Venice (House of the Hospitalers of Saint Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem)
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Turaida, Battle of
