Teutonic Knights' Conquest of Prussia (1270s)

Timeline

1. 1271–1274Pomesania · PrussiaThe Great Prussian Uprising, which began in 1260, continued into the early 1270s; under Grand Master Konrad von Thierberg the Order gradually counterattacked, destroying Prussian strongholds and breaking up tribal alliances, suppressing the last resistance by 1274.
2. 1274–1275Prussia · PrussiaThe Order signed treaties with the remaining Prussian tribes, allowing some to keep their customs but subject to Teutonic overlordship and Christian baptism; uprising leaders were executed or exiled, and the Prussians were incorporated as serfs into the Order's manorial economy.
3. 1275–1280Samland · PrussiaThe Order built stone castles and towns in Samland, Elbing, and elsewhere, attracting German and Flemish settlers; by the late 1270s the conquest of Prussia was essentially complete, and the Teutonic state became the Baltic region's strongest military-colonial power.