The go-ahead to begin this event was given after the positive reception at Dijon of the envoy Anselm of Havelberg, who was sent from a Reichstag meeting at Frankfurt. Following this event, the Northern March was granted to th
The go-ahead to begin this event was given after the positive reception at Dijon of the envoy Anselm of Havelberg, who was sent from a Reichstag meeting at Frankfurt. Following this event, the Northern March was granted to the founder of the House of Ascania who, ten years later, established the March as the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The Obodrite leader Niklot was forced to pay tribute after this event, during which he razed his own castle at Dobin. Participants in this campaign included (*) Conrad the Great, Albert the Bear, and Henry the Lion; their forces, after being sanctioned by Eugenius III, devastated the regions of Pomerania and Polabia. For 10 points, identify this theater of the Second Crusade, a campaign by German princes against pagan Slavs.
The go-ahead to begin this event was given after the positive reception at Dijon of the envoy Anselm of Havelberg, who was sent from a Reichstag meeting at Frankfurt.
Wendish Crusade [prompt on "Second Crusade"]