Everything about David Of Hrodna totally explained
David (killed in
1327) was a
castellan of
Hrodna and one of the most famous warleaders of
Gediminas,
Grand Duke of Lithuania. He might have been the son of
Daumantas of Pskov and great grandson of
Alexander Nevsky.
Maciej Stryjkowski claims that David was married to one of the
daughters of Gediminas. He seems to have been a middleman between the pagan Gediminas and the Christian princes of the
Rurikid family and frequently led into battle the united
Lithuanian-
Ruthenian armies.
David is mentioned for the first time in 1314, when he helped to relieve a siege of
Navahradak by the
Teutonic Knights. He didn't engage in a battle, but instead destroyed food supplies that the Knights left behind. As a result, many Knights died of starvation and exhaustion on their way back to
Prussia. In 1319 David was in charge of 800 men who raided Prussia as far as
Łyna river. However, on their way back they were attacked by the
Komtur of Tapiau (present-day
Gvardeysk) and lost all booty.
Four years later, he took part in the
Pskovian punitive expedition to
Danish Estonia. At the time Pskov was nominally under
Novgorod, which was entangled into a conflict with
Tver and couldn't defend Pskov from the
Livonian Order. In response to looting in
Ladoga and
Narva provinces, David, invited by Pskov nobles, led an expedition to Danish Estonia, an ally of the Order. In March and May of 1324, the Order unsuccessfully besieged his native city.
Since the end of 1324 David was based in Hrodna. In November of 1324 he raided the lands of
Masovian dukes who were allied with the Teutonic Knights. Later they complained to the pope that David destroyed 1 city, 117 villages, and many churches and monasteries. In 1326, he led the Lithuanian armies into
Brandenburg and on the way back he was traitorously killed by a Masovian duke.
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