Medieval era · 1410

Siege of Marienburg

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 for complete conquest of Prussia after the great victory in the Battle of Grunwald…

Siege of Marienburg
Siege of Marienburg · August Heinrich Ferdinand Tegetmeyer (1844-1912), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1410
Where
Malbork Castle
Era
Medieval

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