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After the Great Uprising, the Prussians rose a number of times against the Knights, but these uprisings were much smaller in scale and posed no real danger to the Teutonic Knights, who could concentrate on further conquests. The number of uprisings varies from three to two. They were suppressed within a year or two and showed exhaustion and division of the Prussian tribes. The third uprising in 1276 was provoked by Skomantas, leader of the Sudovians, who successfully raided Teutonic lands. The next year he, with help from the Lithuanians, led 4,000 men into the Culmerland (Chełmno Land). The uprising failed to spread after Theodoric, vogt of Sambia, convinced the Sambians not to join the insurrection; Natangians and Warmians had also accepted baptism and promised their loyalty to the Knights. The Pogesanians alone continued the fight and were crushed. Survivors with their Bartian chief escaped to Hrodna in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania where they joined some of the Bartians, Skalvians, and all of the Nadruvians, who fled there after the Great Uprising.
The last two Prussian attempts to rid itself of the Teutonic rule were made relying on the foreign powers who were enemies of the Knights. The first one in 1286, also known as the fourth uprising, depended upon help from the Duke of Rügen, the grandson of Swantopolk. The plot was soon revealed and the Bartians and Pogesanians suffered the consequences. In 1295 the last uprising was limited to Natangia and Sambia and depended upon help from Vytenis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. The rebels captured Bartenstein (Bartoszyce) by surprise and plundered as far as Königsberg, but were never a serious threat. By that time Prussian nobility was already baptized and pro-Teutonic to the extent that peasants killed them first before attacking the Knights.
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Prussian Revolt
After the Great Uprising, the Prussians rose a number of times against the Knights, but these uprisings were much smaller in scale and posed no real danger to the Teutonic Knights, who could concentrate on further conquests. The number of uprisings varies from three to two. They were suppressed within a year or two and showed exhaustion and division of the Prussian tribes. The third uprising in 1276 was provoked by Skomantas, leader of the Sudovians, who successfully raided Teutonic lands. The next year he, with help from the Lithuanians, led 4,000 men into the Culmerland (Chełmno Land). The uprising spread even if Theodoric, vogt of Sambia, convinced the Sambians not to join the insurrection; Natangians, Warmians and Pogesanians revolted against the Knights causing the Teutonic Knights to weaken.


On 1277, the Sudovians under Skomantas and Lithuanians under Traidenis with the allied Natangians, Warmians, Pogesanians sacked Konigsberg and successfully expelled the Teutonic Knights from Prussia resulting in the Sudovian annexation of Prussia and Chelm land.
The Mazovians were alarmed of the victory of the Prussians against the Teutonic Knights and the new Sudovian state raids Mazovia and Kuyavia led by Sudovian adventurers, many of the people in Kuyavia and Mazovia migrated to Silesia and Lesser Poland due to that, in Lesser Poland and Silesia there are two people are very powerful, they are Henry the Virtuous of Breslau and Leszek the Black of Krakau.


On 1280, Leo I of Galicia conquered Krakau and killed Leszek the Black and Euphemia of Kuyavia, the sister of Leszek the Black marries Henry the Virtuous of Breslau on 1282 and due to the support of Rudolf I of Germany, he was crowned King of Poland by Pope Honorius IV, on 1285 and took Krakow back from Lev I of Galicia on 1287.
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