Battle of Rudau
| Battle of Rudau | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Northern Crusades | |||||||
| |||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||
| Teutonic Knights | Grand Duchy of Lithuania | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Winrich von Kniprode and Henning Schindekop † | Algirdas and Kęstutis | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Unknown | 2,000–3,000 (realistically) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 26 Knights and 100 or 300 men | 1,000 men or 3,500 men | ||||||
The Battle of Rudau (German: Schlacht bei Rudau, Lithuanian: Rūdavos mūšis) was a medieval pitched battle fought between the Teutonic Knights and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on 17 or 18 February 1370 near Rudau village, north of Königsberg (now Melnikovo village in the Kaliningrad oblast). According to the Teutonic chronicler Wigand of Marburg and the Livonian chronicle of Hermann de Wartberge, the Lithuanians suffered a great defeat.