> English crusaders were important participants in the expeditions into Lithuania, especially in the 1390 siege of Vilnius, where English longbowmen inflicted heavy losses on their opponents. English participation in this crusade suddenly ceased, however, after their knights insisted on carrying the banner of St. George, an honor traditionally given to the most prominent visitor on hand (usually a German). Moreover, Henry Bolingbroke (later king Henry IV) interfered in the internal politics of the crusading order and annoyed the German knights by persistently discussing the rights of English merchants to trade in Prussia. English commoners caused trouble, too, by fighting with Scots wherever they encountered them. All in all, the English caused more problems than their help was worth. In 1394 the Teutonic grandmaster made a discouraging reply to English enquires about a future mission, and English knights were rarely mentioned in Prussian records after that.
> French knights were more welcome because they were more numerous and less likely to mix demands for mercantile rights with their duties as Christian warriors. Also they did most of their quarrelling before they reached Prussia. On the other hand, they were sometimes unrealistic about the dangers of crusading. At the 1394 siege of Vilnius French knights saw Polish knights fighting among the ranks of the enemy. Hoping to cross spears with them, they sought a permission to stage a joust on the spot. The Teutonic grandmaster denied their request, explaining that Christians could not enter into honourable exchanges with pagans (he may also have been concerned with army discipline, morale and the impact of truce on his campaign). Undeterred, the French knights tried to arrange a joust against the Poles the following year in Prague.
why the frick didn't we do this shit against the turks
It was tried but the French knights ruined it for everyone
French military doctrine from Courtrai to the Italian Wars :
>DUDE JUST CHARGE LMAO
It continued well after the Italian Wars
Remember Ney at Waterloo, the French ww1 doctrine...etc
Nicopolis was a Christian victory.
Christians beat the Ottomans, and it was the Christian flanking charge of the Turko loyal Serbs into the crusader flank that saved the Ottomans.
It was Christ on Christ violence
>Nicopolis was a Christian victory.
> The Turks threatened to overwhelm Nevers, and his bodyguard threw themselves to the ground in submission to plead for the life of their liege lord. Notwithstanding the declaration of jihad, the Turks were as interested in the riches that could be gained by ransoming noble captives as anyone else, and took Nevers prisoner. Seeing Nevers taken, the rest of the French yielded.
Holy mother of cope!
It’s somewhat true though. If it hadn’t been for the Serbs, the ottomans would have lost that day. This doesn’t mean it would’ve been the end of the Ottomans though.
"kebab removers" my ass
Sure thing Laslo
makes it look like he committed suicide by slitting his throat with his sword like the dark souls 3 statue
Why didn’t Ottomans ever compose their own European like heavy cavalry knights instead of recruiting Serbs and stuff?
>why the frick didn't we do this shit against the turks
You tried and failed google: Nicopolis, Varna
King Henry I had taken crusader vows sometime in 1182, but this did not stop him from sacking churches and monasteries to pay his mercenaries.
This included the sack of Rocamadour, France, where the Young King stole the sword of Roland and other treasures. Returning from this disgraceful act, the Young King fell abruptly ill. In a high fever and fearing for his soul, he sent messengers and turned over his mantle with the crusader cross to Marshal.
William appears to have spent his years in the Holy Land as one of the many secular knights who temporarily served with the Templars.
>Undeterred, the French knights tried to arrange a joust against the Poles the following year in Prague.
Back when French were still French and had their balls in place.
>teutistic order refuses to make friends with fellow cathos because they keep wanting to trade or wave their flags or have sickass brawls with scots and jousts with poles
>gets done in by polish, lithuanian and ruthenian bros who don't care that they're catholics, orthodox, pagans and recent converts
> The Teutonic knight Bertold Brühaven (later commander at Königsberg) thought that ‘poverty and obedience were tolerable, but chastity terrified him. He decided to find out in advance whether he would be capable of withstanding this way of life; he tried an amazing experiment with temptation. He chose a gentle, well brought-up young girl, whose beauty was unequalled in that region, and he lay naked in bed with her virtually every night. This went on for a full year and yet, as the girl later swore on oath, and as was proved by the physical signs of her virginity, he had not deflowered her or ever treated her immodestly, but had left her as he found her. These events are wonderful and miraculous. God gave Samson great strength, King David holiness, Solomon wisdom, but that was not enough to save them in their day: they were defeated by feminine wiles which made them do evil and laid them low. This brother, however, freely sought out the company of a woman and yet abstained from sinful contact with her. For this reason, if I dared, I would say that he was holier than David, much stronger than Samson and much wiser than Solomon in his conduct and worthy of great praise.’
Being an incel back then would have been so easy. Everyone would praised you for it.
>just not having sex was a miracle
its not fair
The Knights of the Teutonic Order were something else, good lord. This man would make everyone today battling their addiction to PMO extremely jealous but simultaneously inspired. Because this is an incredible example of willpower and self-restraint on display.
>don't have sex
>the eternal Anglo was present even in the Teutonic Order saga
lmao holy shit why did they not mention this in our history books/classes
The eternal Anglo always wants those sweet trade agreements
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>English longbowmen
Cope of the century
I’ve always wondered what it must have felt like to be ruled by a government made up of knights.
Just like be ruled by some Bishop who also was a feudal
Well, Livonia would divide into lands ruled by Bishoprics and the Livonian Order during the centuries of their rule.
All things considered, pretty bloody good if you didn't mind sporadic war with the neighbours, cause under the Order there was no serfdom, since they didn't need landed nobility and you mostly just paid taxes directly to the Order.
>explaining that Christians could not enter into honourable exchanges with pagans (
Weren't the Polish Catholic since 966??
Yeah. They were. I guess he said that cause the Poles were fighting on the side of the pagan Lithuanians. It’s kind of like when Protestants call Catholics pagan.
>cause the Poles were fighting on the side of the pagan Lithuanians
They were fighting on their side, because KrautBlack folk were literally waging the war of extermination against Baltic Prussians. They were literally wiping them all out, to make way for the German settlers. Sounds awful familiar right? ''Muh christianity'' had frick all to do with it, just like ''Muh Gommunism'' had frick all to do with it 600 years later during WW2 on the eastern front. The Germans cane there to destroy the people, and take the land. It's that simple.
Pic very much related. Those people haven't really changed during those six centuries.
Germs got stomped in 1410 and again in 1945. European history is simply a record of people trying to keep Germs under control otherwise they ape out over and over again.
>to make way for the German settlers
not quite, it's too common to project imperial german prussia or nazi germany back onto the teutonic order
they were making way for christian settlers, sure many were germans, but there were settlers from all over europe, very notably a lot of poles (as the teutonic order's early holdings in the area were polish) to dispel the stereotype
germans were the largest contingent, however, and the civic culture that eventually developed and encompassed non-ethnic-german settlers was predominantly german-speaking, and centuries later they would all be seen as german as a result, (note nearly all of the autistic german ancestry tracing didn't go back to this period)
so no, there were anachronistic nazis goose stepping into prussia in the 13th century, in fact they were originally sent/invited on poles' behalf and permission
>there were
weren't, oops
There was certainly elements of superiority
> > Many commentators, including St Bridget of Sweden, were shocked at the way Prussian converts were left semi-pagan, uncouth and lawless, and they were probably right in deducing that this sort of neglect made the natives easier to manage from the military point of view – better fighters, and less apt to complain about their rights than German settlers. When Prussians appeared in court and tried to testify, the Lords just sit and laugh’, complained the Carthusians in 1428, and Polish critics were never slow to point out that, even after 200 years of monastic rule, the Old Prussians were Christian only in name. In this as in other matters, the brothers acted as knights rather than as monks. And only two Old Prussians rose to high office in the church: Bishop James of Samland and the Grand-Master’s chaplain Saul… If a Prussian killed a German, he paid twice as dearly as if he had killed a fellow-countryman. the Teutonic Order’s policy of Lasset Preussen, Preussen bleyben (let Prussians stay Prussian) was not benevolent.
>Sounds awful familiar right?
Yeah something what slavs doing to each other almost constantly
They were certainly concerned with populating Prussia in some way….
> When the Bishop of Culm saw his diocese despoiled of its men (for they were all killed), he enjoined upon their widows that they should marry their peasant workmen, lest the business of the [Christian] faith in that place [Prussia] be wholly imperiled. Whence it happened that two women, while on their way to church, saw among others playing at dice in the public square a particularly brave and handsome-looking peasant, though he was ill dressed. One of them quietly told her maid to take him home. The other woman, noticing this, slyly tipped off her maid to lure him to a public house and not to let him get away until she got back from church. This done, she decked him out handsomely in fine clothes and married him openly in the eye of the church. The first woman, when she found this out, was for a long time on decidedly bad terms with the second.
Lithuanians weren't even pagans in the ordinary sense. The vast majority of the Grand Dutchy consisted of what is today Belarus and Ukraine and thus the majority of its inhabitants were baptized already in the 10th century
>germs are pests
nothing new
How come Prussia ended being populated by Germans but not Latvia or Estonia? If the Teutonic Knights had ruled for longer would the Latvians and Estonians have become Germans?
Riga had a lot of Germans.
>English commoners caused trouble, too, by fighting with Scots wherever they encountered them.
A time-honored tradition.
>English commoners caused trouble, too, by fighting with Scots wherever they encountered them
the teutard fears the LITVHANVIAN BVLL
>Lithuania
>Poland
Christianity is the religion of peace