Talk:Prussian uprisings

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Monte saw his friend Hirzhals from Magdeburg taken prisoner and saved his life twice from being chosen as victim to 'thank the gods'. But when the selection fell on Hirzhals for the third time, he did not ask his friend, Monte, again, to spare him. He submitted to his fate. The Prussians, according to ancient Prussian customs, tied Hirzhals on top of a horse and placed both on top of a pile of wood. As the flames of the pyre surrounded him, Monte consoled him with the words the gods will reward you.
During the Interregnum, after the death of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, great confusion ensued in Europe and everywhere people sought to place themself in the best positions possible. Alfons of Castile and Richard of Cornwall were both vying to be king and emperor of Germany. The pope tried by calling many crusades, but could not handle the situation.
Unable to capture cities or lay siege to the Order castles, the Prussians started losing the fight. By 1272, Herkus Monte was forced to withdraw with a small group of his soldiers to the forests of southern Prussia. Within a year, he was captured and hanged.
Skomand took refuge in the neighboring area of Zemgale for some time, before returning and accepting baptism. The Teutonic Order let him live at burg Balga for some years, then gave him the town of Groß-Steegen,where he lived with his sons, Rukals, Gedetes and Galms until he died in 1285. He was buried in the town of Kanditten. When Skomand resigned as leader in Sudauen, Skomands former companion, the noble Wadole took over. He lived near Lyck and he fell in battle with Mangold von Sternberg. There many fine men on both sides fell. The knight Ritter Ludwig von Liebenzell had to be left behind, when he was severly wounded. Close to death, the Sudovians brought him to their new leader, duke Kanthegerde. He knew well of Liebenzell from the time when Skomand was leader and he took him into his home and nursed him back to health. Soon a new crusading army arrived under Konrad von Thierberg. Kanthegerde stood infront of the Teutonic Master and instead of fighting he had himself and his 1600 Sudovian warriers baptised. They received land in a corner of Samland, the Sudauer Winkel. The fighting of the pagan Sudovians continued under the Noble Gedete. From the other side the related Yatvingians were being attacked by Danylo of Halych as well. Prussians could not win against the armies of all of christianised Europe and they escaped to Lithuania for some years. Then the Noble Gedete with his 1500 men returned  to Prussia, accepted baptism and received much property near Königsberg. The last of the Sudovian leaders was Skurdo. The Teutonic Order had many native Prussians in their army as well and Skurdo realised, that Prussians were fighting Prussians. He had the choice to either get baptised or escape. He took his men to Lithuania and some generations later those 'Lithuanians' returned to Prussia. In 1274, the last pagan Prussian rebellion ended and Catholic Europe commisioned and aided the Teutonic Order in many more attempt to conquer the rest of the Baltic tribes.
Europe in the meanwhile was being attacked from the Far East from Tatar Mongol troops. Russia was occupied by them for twohundred years. Later [Ottoman]] Turks came conquering any country not sufficiently fortified, which only a combined church hierachy could furnish, in order to be able to resists. A combined force loyal to the emperor kept the imperial city of Vienna from being captured.
-- Beobach972 14:17, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
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A few specific points:
*The lead section is too long and should be broken up into a smaller lead paragraph and a new section (called "Background" or something like that) which would describe in detail the events leading up to the first uprising - and therefore help place all events within a clearer context and assist in maintaining neutrality. This background section could possibly take some of the content of the "First Uprising" section (eg. the three points at the start of that section).
**The lead just looks too long due to large map and table. But I will try to come up with a background section. Renata 19:12, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: I am struck by the overlap between this article and Prussian Crusade. Gee, just look at the ledes of both. Altogether the articles cover so much of the same ground.  Why the uprisings? The crusade. Why continue the crusade? The uprisings. So much intertwined, why not merge the articles? Shenme (talk) 03:01, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why shouldn't a merge with [[Prussian Crusade]] be fomented? 

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