Lembitu
Sign in to saveLembitu (Estonian also: Lembit, died 21 September 1217) was an ancient Estonian senior (elder) from Sakala County and military leader in the struggle against conquest of the Estonian lands by the German Livonian Brothers of the Sword at the beginning of the 13th century. He is the only Estonian pre-Crusade ruler, about whom some biographical information is known (he is mentioned only in the Livonian Chronicle of Henry).
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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Lembitu
- Royalty.title
- Elder of Sakala
- Royalty.image
- Suure-Jaani Vabadussõja mälestussammas 2018 (cropped).jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Monument to Lembitu at Suure-Jaani, Estonia.
- Royalty.reign
- Until 21 September 1217
- Royalty.successor
- Unnepewe, his brother
- Royalty.issue
- One or several sons
- Royalty.birth_date
- 12th century
- Royalty.death_place
- Near Viljandi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Viljandi
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Languages spoken
- Estonian
- Conflict
- Battle of St. Matthew's Day
- Image
- Suure-Jaani Vabadussõja mälestussammas 2018 (cropped).jpg
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- date of death
- 1217-09-21
- date of birth
- 1200-01-01
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Lembitu (Estonian also: Lembit, died 21 September 1217) was an ancient Estonian senior (elder) from Sakala County and military leader in the struggle against conquest of the Estonian lands by the German Livonian Brothers of the Sword at the beginning of the 13th century. He is the only Estonian pre-Crusade ruler, about whom some biographical information is known (he is mentioned only in the Livonian Chronicle of Henry).
Lembitu, also referred to in Latin as Lambite, Lembito or Lembitus, was first mentioned in chronicles in 1211. Troops led by Lembitu destroyed a troop of missionaries in the historical Estonian county of Sakala (Sackalia) and made a raid as far as Pskov, then a town of the Novgorod Republic. In 1215, Lembitu's Lehola (Leal) stronghold (situated near the present town of Suure-Jaani) was taken by Germans and Lembitu was taken prisoner. He was released in 1217.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lembitu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.