Treniota’s personal influence grows while Mindaugas concentrates …
Years: 1263 - 1263
Treniota’s personal influence grows while Mindaugas concentrates on the conquest of Ruthenian lands, dispatching a large army to Bryansk, the northernmost of the Severian cities in the possession of the Chernigov Rurikids.
After Mikhail of Chernigov was murdered by the Mongols in 1246 and his capital was destroyed, his son had moved his seat to Bryansk.
Treniota and Mindaugas begin to pursue different priorities.
In the midst of these events, Mindaugas' wife Morta dies, and he expresses the wish to marry Morta’s sister, who is the wife of his ally Daumantas, Duke of Nalšia, a northern province of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
In retaliation, …
Locations
People
Groups
- Balts
- Lithuanians (Eastern Balts)
- Rus' people
- Mazovia, Duchy of
- 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
- Teutonic Knights' Conquest of Prussia
- Prussian Uprising, Great
