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Vytautas escaped to the Teutonic fortress of Marienburg and was baptised there under the name Wigand.
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Vytautas and escaped
Kęstutis was eventually captured, imprisoned and put to death, but Kęstutis's son Vytautas, the future Grand Duke, escaped.
Tokhtamysh escaped to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and asked Vytautas for assistance in retaking the Horde in exchange for surrendering his suzerainity over Rus ' lands.
One of his sons, Manzur Kiyat, purportedly escaped to Lithuania, and, serving Grand Prince Vytautas the Great, received the title of Prince of Hlinsk with multiple estates around the modern city of Poltava ( Ukraine ).
Over twenty princes, including two brothers of Wladyslaw II Jagiełło, were killed, and Vytautas himself barely escaped alive.
Tokhtamysh escaped to the Ukrainian steppes and asked for help from the Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania.
Tokhtamysh escaped to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and asked Vytautas for assistance in retaking the Horde in exchange for surrendering his suzerainity over Ruthenian lands.
Vytautas barely escaped alive, but many princes of his kin ( including his cousins Demetrius I Starszy and Andrei of Polotsk ) and allies ( as for example, Stephen I of Moldavia and two of his brothers ) died in the battle.
She convinced one of them to exchange clothes with Vytautas who then escaped undetected.
Vytautas and Teutonic
* 1398 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
* July 15 – Battle of Grunwald ( also known as Tannenberg or Žalgiris ): Polish and Lithuanian forces under cousins Jogaila and Vytautas the Great decisively defeat the forces of the Teutonic Knights, whose power is broken.
* January 19 – Treaty of Lyck confirms an alliance between Vytautas and the Teutonic Knights in the Lithuanian Civil War against Vytautas's cousin, Jogaila.
* September 11 – In the Lithuanian Civil War, the coalition of Vytautas and the Teutonic Knights begins a 5-week siege of Vilnius.
On 4 September 1390, the joint forces of Vytautas and the Teutonic Grand Master, Konrad von Wallenrode, laid siege to Vilnius, which was held by Władysław's regent Skirgaila with combined Polish, Lithuanian and Ruthenian troops.
In December 1408, Władysław and Vytautas held strategic talks in Navahrudak Castle, where they decided to foment a Samogitian uprising against Teutonic rule to draw German forces away from Pomerelia.
However, his rule was briefly interrupted when in 1383 joint forces of Kęstutis's son Vytautas and the Teutonic Knights captured the town.
Some design elements were borrowed from the castles of the Teutonic Knights as Vytautas spent some time with the Teutons forming an alliance against Jogaila in earlier years.
The alliance of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King Jogaila ( Władysław Jagiełło ) and Grand Duke Vytautas ( Witold ), decisively defeated the Teutonic Knights, led by Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen.
In January 1384, Vytautas again promised to cede part of Samogitia, to the Teutonic Order, up to the Nevėžis River in return for the title of Grand Duke of Lithuania.
However, in July of the same year, Vytautas decided to abandon the Teutonic Knights and reconciled with Jogaila.
Vytautas was forced to ask the Teutonic Knights for help for the second time in the beginning of 1390.
Vytautas accepted and once again burned three Teutonic castles and returned to Vilnius.
Vytautas waged a war in 1406 – 1408 against his son-in-law Vasili I of Moscow and Švitrigaila, a brother of Jogaila who with the support of the Teutonic Order had declared himself grand prince.
In 1398 in preparation for the crusade against the Golden Horde, Vytautas had signed the Treaty of Salynas with the Teutonic Knights and transferred Samogitia to them.
In 1409 the second Samogitian uprising, backed by Vytautas, against the Teutonic Knights started.
Later, captured ( 1275 – 76 ) and ruled by the Teutonic Knights, the land was reckoned, what is recorded in the historical sources, to be their patrimony by Algirdas ( officially said ) and Vytautas ( recorded to be said unofficially ).
While living abroad, Švitrigaila sided with the Teutonic Knights in their prolonged struggle against Vytautas.
The renewed alliance stabilized the situation, allowing Vytautas to launch an offensive against the Teutonic Knights and to initiate the first Samogitian uprising.
To enlist support from the Teutonic Knights, Vytautas signed the Treaty of Salynas, surrendering Samogitia to the Knights.
Vytautas also turned his plans from expansion southwards to east ( against Moscow ) and west ( against the Teutonic Knights ).
It is suggested that Vytautas learned the staged retreat tactic during the battle and successfully used it himself in the Battle of Grunwald ( 1410 ), one of the largest battles in medieval Europe and important defeat of the Teutonic Knights.
In the atmosphere of fierce battles with the Teutonic Knights, the Lithuanian rulers Jogaila and Vytautas several times ceded Samogitia to the Teutonic Order in 1382, 1398 and 1404.
Vytautas and fortress
The present-day fortress was constructed after 1400 by the Moldavian ruler Alexander the Good, with the help of Vytautas the Great of Lithuania.
Vytautas and Marienburg
On 31 January 1402, he presented himself in Marienburg, where he won the backing of the Knights with concessions similar to those made by Jogaila and Vytautas during earlier leadership contests in the Grand Duchy.
By December 1409, Jogaila and Vytautas had agreed on a common strategy: their armies would unite into a single massive force and march together towards Marienburg ( Malbork ), capital of the Teutonic Knights.
Vytautas and was
Grand Duke Vytautas, a Lithuanian hero, was Jogaila's first cousin and rival
Kęstutis and his son Vytautas entered Jogaila's encampment for negotiations but were tricked and imprisoned in the Kreva Castle, where Kęstutis was found dead, probably murdered, a week later.
This bloody conflict was eventually brought to a temporary halt in 1392 with the Treaty of Ostrów, by which Władysław handed over the government of Lithuania to his cousin in exchange for peace: Vytautas was to rule Lithuania as the Grand Duke ( magnus dux ) until his death, under the overlordship of the Supreme Duke ( dux supremus ) in the person of the Polish monarch.
Shortly afterwards, Vytautas was crowned as a king by local nobles ; but the following year his forces and those of his ally, Khan Tokhtamysh of the White Horde, were crushed by the Timurids at the Battle of the Vorskla River, ending his imperial ambitions in the east and obliging him to submit to Władysław's protection once more.
After Władysław's refusal, Vytautas was postulated ( elected in absentia ) as Bohemian king, but he assured the pope that he opposed the heretics.
Vytautas accepted Sigismund's offer of a royal crown in 1429 — apparently with Władysław's blessing — but Polish forces intercepted the crown in transit and the coronation was cancelled.
The last sovereign monarch of Smolensk was Yury of Smolensk ; during his reign the city was taken by Vytautas the Great of Lithuania on three occasions: in 1395, 1404, and 1408.
The alliance of Tokhtamysh and Vytautas was defeated by the Khan Temur Qutlugh and his emir Edigu at the battle of the Vorskla River in 1399.
She was a daughter of Vytautas the Great and his wife Anna.
Vasily II was the youngest son of Vasily I of Moscow by Sophia of Lithuania, the only daughter of Vytautas the Great, and the only son to survive his father ( his elder brother Ivan died in 1417 at the age of 22 ).
Vasily's claim was supported by Vytautas, his maternal grandfather.
The famous Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas was the prince of Grodno from 1376 to 1392, and he stayed there during his preparations for the Battle of Grunwald ( 1410 ).
The town was planned to be dominated by the Old Grodno Castle, first built in stone by Grand Duke Vytautas and thoroughly rebuilt in the Renaissance style by Scotto from Parma at the behest of Stefan Batory, who made the castle his principal residence.
In 1408 the town was granted Magdeburg Rights by Vytautas the Great and became a centre of Kaunas Powiat in Trakai Voivodeship in 1413.
Later the first brick castle was completed in 1409 by Grand Duke Vytautas.
It was proposed to elect the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas to the throne.
He was a governor sent by Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas, who accepted the Hussite proposal to be their new king.
The crown was then offered to Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania and Vytautas accepted it, with the condition that the Hussites reunite with the Catholic Church.
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