Siege of Marienburg (1410)

Siege of Marienburg
	Part of the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
	; Polish artillery shelling Marienburg Castle in 1410
Date	26 July – 19 September 1410
Location	Marienburg Castle (Malbork Castle)54°02′23″N 19°01′40″E / 54.03972°N 19.02778°E
Result	Teutonic Order victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Poland; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Moldavia;	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; 800 Moldavians	3,000 reserve men ; 1,427 Grunwald survivors ; 200 seamen from Danzig (Gdańsk)

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 (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.

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