Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk)

The city of Danzig (Gdańsk) was captured by the State of the Teutonic Order on 13 November 1308, resulting in a massacre of its inhabitants and marking the beginning of tensions between Poland and the Teutonic Order. Originally the knights moved into the fortress as an ally of Poland against the Margraviate of Brandenburg. However, after disputes over the control of the city between the Order and the King of Poland arose, the knights murdered a number of citizens within the city and took it as their own. Thus the event is also known as Gdańsk massacre or Gdańsk slaughter (rzeź Gdańska). Though in the past a matter of debate among historians, a consensus has been established that many people were murdered and a considerable part of the town was destroyed in the context of the takeover.

Teutonic takeover of Danzig (Gdańsk)
Part of the Polish–Teutonic Wars

Pomerelia (Polish Pomerania) while part of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights
Date13 November 1308
Location
Danzig (Gdańsk)
Result

Order's capture of the city followed by massacre of the inhabitants, leading to expansion of the Teutonic Order and Polish–Teutonic Wars over the following two centuries.

Territorial
changes		 Pomerelia became governed by the Teutonic Order and remained only nominally subject to Poland, leaving Poland landlocked from the Baltic Sea, Germanization of the region.
Belligerents
Brandenburg
margraves, Swienca family		 Piast dynasty Teutonic Knights
Commanders and leaders
Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal Władysław the Elbow-high, Duke of Poland Heinrich von Plötzke

In the aftermath of the takeover, the order seized all of Pomerelia (Gdańsk Pomerania) and bought up the supposed Brandenburgian claims to the region in the Treaty of Soldin (1309). The conflict with Poland was temporarily settled in the Treaty of Kalisz (1343). The town was returned to Poland in the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466.

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