Ragnit (Ragainė)¶

In the 1380s-1400s [Historical record]¶

An Order castle on the Nemunas, about 60 km below Jurbarkas (Jurbarkas) and about 70 km from Tapiau. Its komtur in 1390 was Marquard von Salzbach; he brought the Order’s knights to Vytautas by the Salynas treaty and fought at the Vorskla in 1399.

Ragnit (Ragainė)


Type	place
Note	Order castle on the Nemunas (Lith. Ragainė). The saga’s Marquard von Salzbach is its komtur (Lyck, Jan 1390; the knights he led to Vytautas at the Vorskla, 1399); Book I ch. 19 gives Vytautas the komtur Wigand von Beldersheim as godfather.

In the saga¶

Book I ch. 19 has Vytautas baptised with the komtur of Ragnit, Wigand von Beldersheim, as godfather (the record gives the baptism at Tapiau in 1383; see Tapiau). Book II ch. 22 and the afterword name Marquard as the komtur who marched the Order’s column.

Scenes set here¶

Book I ch. 19; Book II ch. 22, 30 (a name on the Marienburg map). Rastenburg (Book II ch. 8; Book III ch. 11; Book V ch. 19) and Insterburg (Book III ch. 11) are named in passing and have no pages.

Relations

Ruled by: Marquard von Salzbach

Connections¶

graph LR
  marquard["Marquard von Salzbach"]
  ragnit["Ragnit (Ragainė)"]
  marquard -->|Rules| ragnit
  style ragnit stroke-width:3px