> ...stayed there and acted more as an imperial state rather then humble servants of God.
The managed to stay there some centuries. This would not have been possible were the inhabitants subdued. I guess the people back then didn’t care a lot to whom they paid their tenth as life must have been hard already.
BTW, I have nothing against remembering the past, the fallen and all that but this pathos over some battle 600 years ago is ridiculous.
To you it may sem ridiculous, your country (Germany as it is) is around 300 years old.. you’ll never understand us :)
The inhabitants you mention were slaves, peasants we call them today. TK’s brutality in forcing their law is world reknown, peasants under their rule prefered to obey Polish King who at least ordered them to pay smaller taxes.