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Lembitu (died
September 21 1217) was one of the best-known
Estonian leaders in the struggle to oppose the
conquest of the Estonian lands by the
German Livonian Brothers of the Sword at the beginning of the
13th century. Interestingly, he's the only Estonian pre-Crusade ruler, about whom some biographical information is known (he is mentioned only in the
Chronicle of Henry of Livonia).
Lembitu, also referred to in
Estonian as
Lembit and in
Latin as
Lambite,
Lembito or
Lembitus, was first mentioned in chronicles in 1211 with regard to a military expedition. Troops led by Lembitu destroyed a troop of missionaries in the historical Estonian
eldership of
Sakala and made a raid as far as
Pskov, then a town of the
Novgorod Republic. In 1215, Lembitu's
Lehola (
Leal) stronghold (situated near the present town of
Suure-Jaani) was taken by Germans and Lembitu was taken prisoner. He was released in 1217.
Lembitu attempted the unification of all
Estonians in order to withstand the German conquest. He managed to assemble an army of 6,000 Estonian men from different counties, but was killed in the following
Battle of St. Matthew's Day in September, 1217.
Since 19th century he's been a symbolic figurehead of some anti-Christian and anti-German propaganda.
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