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- Title
MOSCOW TROOPS IN THE WARS OF POLAND AND LITHUANIA WITH THE TEUTONIC ORDER IN PRUSSIA IN 1414 AND 1422: TWO TIMELINE QUESTIONS.
- Authors
EKDAHL, SVEN
- Abstract
The research in this essay devotes itself to the question as to whether troops of the Grand Duchy of Moscow participated in the campaigns of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania against the Teutonic Order in Prussia at the beginning of the 15th century. There are different and partly erroneous opinions on this subject in historiography. An analysis of existing written sources leads to the conclusion that Moscow troops took part in the wars of 1414 and 1422. Due to a lack of sources it cannot be clearly ascertained if that was also the case in 1410. However, attention is drawn to the fact that the war between the two duchies of Lithuania and Moscow in 1408 ended with peace on the Ugra River on September 15. The peace treaty itself is missing, but a letter from the Lithuanian Grand Duke Witold (Lit. Vytautas) to King Wladyslaw Jagiello of Poland gives important information about its content: namely, that Grand Duke Wassili I. of Moscow had promised to fight all their common enemies with all his armed forces. The question arises as to whether he made troops available for the wars against the Teutonic Order not only in 1414 and 1422, but also in 1410.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA (Grand Duchy); UGRA River (Russia); POLAND; TEUTONIC Knights; HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae, 2020, Vol 25, p181
- ISSN
1427-4418
- Publication type
Article