What the records say
- When
- 28 Sep 1217
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 58.45° N, 25.48° E
- Description
- 1217 battle
Battle of St. Matthew's Day
1217 battle of the Livonian Crusade
The Battle of Matthew's Day was fought near Viljandi on 21 September 1217 during the Livonian Crusade. The adversaries were the Sword Brethren with their recently converted Livonian and Latgalian allies versus an army of 6,000 Estonian men from different counties, led by Lembitu, who had attempted to unify the Estonians. The Germans won, although the converted Livonian chieftain Caupo of Turaida died.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Livonian Crusade: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword and allied Livs and Letts defeat the Estonian army in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ливонский крестовый поход в Восточную Европу: сражение при Вильянди”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page