Siege of Marienburg (1410)
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The siege of Marienburg was an unsuccessful two-month siege of the castle in Marienburg (Malbork), the capital of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. The joint Polish and Lithuanian forces, under command of King Władysław II Jagiełło and Grand Duke Vytautas, besieged the castle between 26 July and 19 September 1410 in a bid of complete conquest of Prussia after the great victory in the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg). However, the castle withstood the siege and the Knights conceded only to minor territorial losses in the Peace of Thorn (1411). Marienburg defender Heinrich von Plauen is credited as the savior of the Knights from complete annihilation.
Siege of Marienburg | |||||||
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Part of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War | |||||||
Polish artillery shelling Marienburg Castle in 1410 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
State of the Teutonic Order | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Władysław II Jagiełło Vytautas the Great | Heinrich von Plauen | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
15,000 Poles 11,000–12,000 Lithuanians[1] 800 Moldavians |
3,000 reserve men 1,427 Grunwald survivors 200 seamen from Danzig (Gdańsk)[2] |