Valdemar II
Banned
Interesting update, the German settler in Poland is quite interesting aspect in OTL the German expantion that way only began in the late 11th century, and was a result of a mix of overpopulation in Lower Lotharingen and new farming technics, this early expantion could easy be a result of the large scale influx of Seinish refugees to the Rhineland and the Netherlands. In OTL the Germans usual spread in easten Europe by taking up unused land, like forests and swamps (surperior drainage methods), this was supported by the local Slavic (yes Slavic and their heritage is oblivious among the East German nobility in surnames ending in -ow*), Danish and Germans nobles, who gave the settlers tax exceptions and large scale freedom, while the local Slavic population was slowly made into serfs by the nobles (or ended up as farmhands on German farms). The free German peasants ended up with a higher birthrate, thanks to greater access to food security and they had the agricultural technics to better use the land, so they slowly grew to majority (through Slavic was still spoken among segments among the serfs to the 16-18 century).
If the same thing happen here we will see opposite demograpic changes of the early discussed, with the West Slavs north of the Carpathian Mountains becoming integrated into a Saxon/German(East Frankish) identity.
To what religion Poland will convert, Papalism is the only realistic option, their domain is to open to a East Frankish/Danish crusade especially after it had been shown to work in Britain.
*Example von Bülow, von Ranzow (Rantzau) and von Barnekow.
If the same thing happen here we will see opposite demograpic changes of the early discussed, with the West Slavs north of the Carpathian Mountains becoming integrated into a Saxon/German(East Frankish) identity.
To what religion Poland will convert, Papalism is the only realistic option, their domain is to open to a East Frankish/Danish crusade especially after it had been shown to work in Britain.
*Example von Bülow, von Ranzow (Rantzau) and von Barnekow.