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Saule, Battle of the

Years: 1236 - 1236

The Battle of Saule is fought on September 22, 1236 between the Livonian Brothers of the Sword and pagan Samogitians.

Between 48 and 60 knights are killed, including the Livonian Master, Volkwin.

It is the earliest large-scale defeat suffered by the orders in Baltic lands.

The Sword-Brothers, the first Catholic military order established in the Baltic lands, is soundly defeated and its remnants accept ncorporation into the Teutonic Order in 1237.

The battle inspires rebellions among the Curonians, Semigallians, Selonians, Oeselians: tribes previously conquered by the Sword-Brothers.

Some thirty years' worth of conquests on the left bank of Daugava ware lost.

To commemorate the battle, in 2000 the Lithuanian and Latvian parliaments declare September 22 to be the Day of Baltic Unity.

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”

― Golda Meir, My Life (1975)