Kingdom of Poland Very Hard medium aggro latest regular patch
My name is Ignacio Bartholomeu merely a scribe and translator hired by the Sacred Order of the eastern Cross. It is my duty to compile the many writings and to summarize in detail the vast history of the Order of the eastern cross and the Kingdom it serves, namely the throne of poland although that title would grow to encompass much more than it once did. I will dispense with much of the preliminaries as many worthy historians have already writen of the early years, but it is my honor to perhaps shed new light indeed on much of what happened afterwards starting int he year 1066 of the Lord, starting on December 26th when the destiny of an Empire was revealed in a few bold strokes. I will be quoting from many sources some being written by spies in service of the king who sat in inns and taverns writing what they heard in order to keep watch on sedition and betrayal. Other sources include church writings by monks and priests while yet more come from diaries and letters of nobles and merchants . There are even memoirs of soldiers from least to the great oft times recorded by priests in an effort to preserve the histories of this great nation. Much of the view point will center of course on the central issues of the throne and writings will conform around that central theme with some expounding done by this humble servant as I am directed by my overseerers.
I begin with King Boleslaus daring plan to regain the lost lands of the Pommern. Without going through normal channels of requesting Lords to raise their armies for war, secret orders were carried by Knights serving a new Order, the order of the Eastern Cross begun that day by the King and staffed with his most loyal knights. These orders required all garrisons of the realm to be raised and marshalled in two great hosts. Once the armies were already assembled those Lords that were avaiable were given commands of their own forces with specific orders for those such lead to head to the province of Gnieznienskie to await the King and his personal guard. The other garrisons without Lords leading them were given secret orders to obey the King only and disreguard all other orders and marshal in Lubusz this force to nominally be led by one of the King's trustred knights by name of Zygmunt. Unbeknownst to all the Lords the King had already sent the fastest riders to the north and south, the north riders bearing declarations of war for the coast in an effort to return the Pommern lands to the Polish crown...this entailed declarations for each subchief and greater chief from Mecklenburg and Pommerania. The King was not daunted and trusted his Holy purpose to strengthen Poland. While those that rode north bore words of war those to the south bore words of peace and invitation, Kiev the golden city was offered the option of becoming a part of something greater lest it be faced with a formiddible and implacable foe till it did so, whether in peace or of war Kiev would submit.
In addition the King had decided good blood and royal blood was needed to strengthen the Line of Poland's kings. Blood fromt he west to mingle with the blood of the east. Sancha Kiminez was chosen from one of the Spanish Kingdoms. She was from good stock and strong bloodlines. More so her family had struggled greatly against the heathens and enemies of Christ so such a m,atch would appease the clergy of the kingdom and perhaps the Pope as well. At this time word had been sent on the swiftest carrier pigeons to relay word of this invitation to wed. Boleslau commited himself to the task of learning to love this foreign woman whose ways would be so different than his own people's yet he trusted the Lord. Meanwhile invitations would be sent to all the Princes of Russia to join. This was a formality only as the King knew they would not yet submit for they were too proud and misguided. It was his hopes that kiev would be the stepping stone on which he would march Poland into sovereignity over the steppes. The King's goals as we understood later were to regain all the lands lost to the Holy Roman Empire and to the Pagans north, which includes Pommerania and Mecklenburg lands althoough some of those lands had never formally belonged to the throne but had only been striven for, The throne of Bohemia taken away by force, liberation of the heathen souls along the baltic and south to the Black Sea thereby establishing control over the length of the Amber road trade route, and lastly uniting all the disparate russian tribes and princedoms under Polish Monarchy. Ambitious he most certainly was..
My name is Ignacio Bartholomeu merely a scribe and translator hired by the Sacred Order of the eastern Cross. It is my duty to compile the many writings and to summarize in detail the vast history of the Order of the eastern cross and the Kingdom it serves, namely the throne of poland although that title would grow to encompass much more than it once did. I will dispense with much of the preliminaries as many worthy historians have already writen of the early years, but it is my honor to perhaps shed new light indeed on much of what happened afterwards starting int he year 1066 of the Lord, starting on December 26th when the destiny of an Empire was revealed in a few bold strokes. I will be quoting from many sources some being written by spies in service of the king who sat in inns and taverns writing what they heard in order to keep watch on sedition and betrayal. Other sources include church writings by monks and priests while yet more come from diaries and letters of nobles and merchants . There are even memoirs of soldiers from least to the great oft times recorded by priests in an effort to preserve the histories of this great nation. Much of the view point will center of course on the central issues of the throne and writings will conform around that central theme with some expounding done by this humble servant as I am directed by my overseerers.
I begin with King Boleslaus daring plan to regain the lost lands of the Pommern. Without going through normal channels of requesting Lords to raise their armies for war, secret orders were carried by Knights serving a new Order, the order of the Eastern Cross begun that day by the King and staffed with his most loyal knights. These orders required all garrisons of the realm to be raised and marshalled in two great hosts. Once the armies were already assembled those Lords that were avaiable were given commands of their own forces with specific orders for those such lead to head to the province of Gnieznienskie to await the King and his personal guard. The other garrisons without Lords leading them were given secret orders to obey the King only and disreguard all other orders and marshal in Lubusz this force to nominally be led by one of the King's trustred knights by name of Zygmunt. Unbeknownst to all the Lords the King had already sent the fastest riders to the north and south, the north riders bearing declarations of war for the coast in an effort to return the Pommern lands to the Polish crown...this entailed declarations for each subchief and greater chief from Mecklenburg and Pommerania. The King was not daunted and trusted his Holy purpose to strengthen Poland. While those that rode north bore words of war those to the south bore words of peace and invitation, Kiev the golden city was offered the option of becoming a part of something greater lest it be faced with a formiddible and implacable foe till it did so, whether in peace or of war Kiev would submit.
In addition the King had decided good blood and royal blood was needed to strengthen the Line of Poland's kings. Blood fromt he west to mingle with the blood of the east. Sancha Kiminez was chosen from one of the Spanish Kingdoms. She was from good stock and strong bloodlines. More so her family had struggled greatly against the heathens and enemies of Christ so such a m,atch would appease the clergy of the kingdom and perhaps the Pope as well. At this time word had been sent on the swiftest carrier pigeons to relay word of this invitation to wed. Boleslau commited himself to the task of learning to love this foreign woman whose ways would be so different than his own people's yet he trusted the Lord. Meanwhile invitations would be sent to all the Princes of Russia to join. This was a formality only as the King knew they would not yet submit for they were too proud and misguided. It was his hopes that kiev would be the stepping stone on which he would march Poland into sovereignity over the steppes. The King's goals as we understood later were to regain all the lands lost to the Holy Roman Empire and to the Pagans north, which includes Pommerania and Mecklenburg lands althoough some of those lands had never formally belonged to the throne but had only been striven for, The throne of Bohemia taken away by force, liberation of the heathen souls along the baltic and south to the Black Sea thereby establishing control over the length of the Amber road trade route, and lastly uniting all the disparate russian tribes and princedoms under Polish Monarchy. Ambitious he most certainly was..
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