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Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck |
 | | That year Margrave Heinrich of Meissen brought 500 knights and founded Elbing, and in 1234 Pope Gregory IX granted the knights a state in Prussia. |
| | By 1239 a garrison at Balga was threatening the trade of Danzig duke Swantopelk, who with his river fleet launched a war in 1242 that lasted ten years; but Polish princes helped the knights defeat Swantopelk. |
| | Mendicant orders of Franciscans spread to Germany while Dominicans gained a commission in 1231 to combat heresy. |
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