The Battle of Šiauliai or Battle of the Sun (Lithuanian: Saulės Mūšis) took place on September 22, 1236 near the town of Šiauliai, which today lies in the region of Joniškis, Lithuania. The Chronicum Livoniae by Hermann de Wartberge says the battle was fought in terram Sauleorum, but it has not been proven that terram Sauleorum is Šiauliai. September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... Events May 6 - Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler of St Albanss Abbey dies. ... Å iauliai is the fourth largest city in Lithuania, with a population of 133,883. ... Joniskis on the map of Lithuania JoniÅ¡kis is a town in northern Lithuania with a population of about 12,400. ...

The knights of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, led by Master Volquin, were in desperate straits by the 1230s with strained financial resources and decreasing manpower. In 1236 Volquin led a war party with the assistance of the prince of Pskov southward into pagan Samogitia. Accompanied by headstrong seasonal crusaders from Holstein, the knights raided some settlements of the Žemaičiai, or Samogitians, who had fled beforehand. On the knights' return trek to the north, however, they encountered a determined group of Samogitians at a river crossing. Unwilling to risk losing their horses in the swampland, the Holsteiners refused to fight on foot, forcing the knights to camp for the night. The next morning a pagan force composed of Samogitians led by Duke Vykintas and Lithuanians led by Duke Mindaugas struck at the western army. Lightly-armed native forces under the command of the Brothers fled from the battle, while the burdened knights and crusaders, including Volquin, were slain. Emblem of Livonian Brothers The Livonian Brothers of the Sword (Latin Fratres militiae Christi, literally the brothers of the army of Christ), also known as the Christ Knights, Sword Brethren or The Militia of Christ of Livonia, was a military order started in 1202 by Albert of Buxhoeveden, bishop of... Volquin (Wolquin, Folkvin, Volkewin) was the Master of the Order of Brothers of the Sword from 1209 to 1236. ... 10-ruble Russian coin of 2003 in the Ancient cities of Russia series - commemorating Pskov Pskov (Псков, ancient spelling Пльсковъ, also Pihkva (Estonian), Pleskau (German) and Psków (Polish)) is an ancient Russian city, located in the north-west of Russia near the present-day border with Estonia, on the river... Note: this article is about the ethnographic region of Lithuania. ... For other uses of the word, see Holstein Holstein (Hol-shtayn) (Low Saxon: Holsteen, Danish: Holsten, Latin and historical English: Holsatia) is the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, between the rivers Elbe, Eider, and the Schlei firth. ... Modern portrait of Mindaugas Mindaugas (approximate English transcription [ˈmın. ...

After this battle the remnants of the Livonian Brethren accepted incorporation into the Teutonic Order in 1237. Teutonic Knights, charging into battle. ...