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Semigallians and Curonians
Some of these have merged into the Lithuanians and Latvians ( Samogitians, Selonians, Curonians, Semigallians ), while others no longer exist ( Prussians, Sambians, Skalvians, Galindians ).
Albert, bishop of Riga ( or Prince-Bishop of Livonia ), founded the Brotherhood to aid the Bishopric of Riga in the conversion of the pagan Curonians, Livonians, Semigallians, and Latgalians living on the shores of the Gulf of Riga.
The east Baltic world was transformed by military conquest: first the Livs, Latgallians and Estonians, then the Semigallians, Curonians, Prussians and the Finns underwent defeat, baptism, military occupation and sometimes extermination by groups of Danes, Germans and Swedes.
The German crusaders enlisted newly baptised Livonian warriors to participate in their campaigns against Latgallians and Selonians ( 1208 – 1209 ), Estonians ( 1208 – 1227 ) and against Semigallians, Samogitians and Curonians ( 1219 – 1290 ).
The original subethnic Samogitia, i. e. the Central Lithuania's flat burial grounds culture, was formed as early as the 5th-6th centuries, whereas the Western part of historical Samogitia became ethnically Lithuanian between the 13th-16th centuries, – before that time it was inhabited by southern Semigallians and southern Curonians.
The territory of the Balts, including modern Lithuania, was once inhabited by several Baltic tribal entities ( Aukštaitians, Sudovians, Old Lithuanians, Curonians, Semigallians, Selonians, Samogitians, Skalvians, Old Prussians ( Nadruvians )), as attested by ancient sources and dating from prehistoric times.
* The fourth book, " On Estonia " describes events between 1208 and 1226: the campaigns against Estonian counties, the conquest of the Principality of Jersika, the wars with Curonians, Semigallians, Lithuanians and Princes of Pskow and Novgorod.
Having been reorganised as a subdivision of the Teutonic Order and renamed the Livonian Order in 1237, the former Knights of the Sword finally overpowered the Curonians in 1267, and subsequently the Semigallians in 1290.
Folkwin led the Sword-Brothers in the Northern Crusades in Latvia and Estonia against the Samogitians, Curonians, Semigallians, and Selonians.
The battle inspired rebellions among the Curonians, Semigallians, Selonians, Oeselians, tribes previously conquered by the Sword-Brothers.
In 1228, Semigallians and Curonians attacked the Daugavgrīva monastery, the main crusader stronghold at the Daugava river delta.
Asimilation of Curonians and Semigallians gave birth for the 3 Samogitian subdialects: " Dounininkų ", " Donininkų " and " Dūnininkų ".
This division of medieval Livonia was created by Papal Legate William of Modena in 1228 as a compromise between the church and the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, both factions led by Germans, after the German knights had conquered and subdued the territories of several indigenous tribes: Finnic-speaking Estonians and Livs, and Baltic-speaking Latgalians, Selonians, Semigallians and Curonians.
Lithuanian support of the Great Prussian Uprising ceased, and the orders made advances against Semigallians and Curonians uninterrupted.
Semigallians and –
* 1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
* September 22 – Battle of Saule: The Lithuanians and Semigallians beat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
Semigallians and 1290
The new master of the Order Cuno of Haciginstein organised the last campaigns against the Semigallians in 1289 and 1290 ; the hillforts of Dobele, Rakte and Sidarbe were conquered and most of the Semigallian warriors joined the Samogitian and Lithuanian forces.
The Semigallians continued their resistance until 1290, when they burned their last castle in Sidrabene, and a large number of Semigallians ( The Rhymed Chronicle claims 100, 000 ) migrated to Lithuania and once there continued to fight against the Germans.
Using Mitau as a southern fortress, the German knights subdued the surrounding Livonians and Semigallians by 1290.
Curonians and –
The substratum of Prussian Lithuanian population comprised mostly ethnic Baltic tribes – local ( Old Prussians – Sambians, north Bartians, Natangians ; either probably formerly Lithuanized or Prussian Scalovians and Nadruvians ; Sudovians, some Curonians ) and neighbouring ( newcomers, including returning refugees, from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Lithuanians from the right side of the middle reaches of the Neman or Suvalkija, Samogitians, Sudovians, Prussians etc .).
Curonians and ),
The Curonian language (; ; ), or Old Curonian, is a nearly unattested, extinct language spoken by the Curonians, a Baltic tribe who inhabited the Courland peninsula ( now western Latvia ) and the nearby Baltic shore.
Norna-Gests þáttr has a brief mention about the king of both Denmark and Sweden, Sigurd Ring ( ruling in the mid-8th century ), fighting against invading Curonians and Kvens:
Sigurd Ring ( Sigurðr ) was not there, since he had to defend his land, Sweden ( Svíþjóð ), since Curonians ( Kúrir ) and Kvens ( Kvænir ) were raiding there.
:" Sigurd Ring ( Sigurðr ) was not there, since he had to defend his land, Sweden ( Svíþjóð ), since Curonians ( Kúrir ) and Kvens ( Kvænir ) were raiding there.
In 1230 the Curonians in the northern part of Courland, under their chief Lamekins ( Lammechinus Rex ), signed a peace treaty with the Germans, and the lands they inhabited thus became to be known as Vredecuronia or Peace Courland.
:" Sigurd Ring ( Sigurðr ) was not there, since he had to defend his land, Sweden ( Svíþjóð ), since Curonians ( Kúrir ) and Kvens ( Kvænir ) were raiding there.
1219 and –
# Héloise / Helvis of Lusignan ( c. 1190 – 1216 – 1219, 1216 / 1219 or c. 1217 ), married firstly c. 1205 Eudes de Dampierre sur Salon, Lord of Chargey-le-Grey, div.
* 1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lyndanisse ( modern-day Tallinn ) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia.
In the mid-12th century, an independent state of Khorazm along the Oxus River broke away from the weakening Karakitai, but the bulk of the Kara-Khitan lasted until the Mongol invasion of Genghis Khan in 1219 – 1221.
A treaty with Galicia – Volhynia, signed in 1219, is usually considered the first conclusive evidence that the Baltic tribes in the area were uniting in response to these threats.
Other famous pieces include the Boecis, a 258-line-long poem written entirely in the Limousin dialect of Occitan between the year 1000 and 1030 and inspired by Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy ; the Waldensian La Nobla Leyczon ( dated 1100 ), la Cançó de Santa Fe ( ca 1054 – 1076 ), the Romance of Flamenca ( 13th c .), the Song of the Albigensian Crusade ( 1213 – 1219?
Nothing is known of his early life until he became chancellor of the church of Milan ( perhaps as early as 1219, certainly in 1223 – 27 ).
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