Über einige Schlösser des Deutschen Ordens ✠ About Some Teutonic Castles

Part III of The Chronicle of the Prussian Land by Peter of Dusburg Paragraph 122: In the year of our Lord 1264 the Litvins besieged Wehlau Castle, Heinrich von Taupadel, who later became a Brother of the Order, shot and killed the leader of the Litvins with a crossbow, then shot at one master who was trying to fix their siege weapon and pinned his hand to that siege machine. Seeing this, the Litvins lifted the siege. Paragraph 148: When the city of Marienwerder was restored by the Brothers with great labo