Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - I te raki, i puta te Pakanga o Livonia mo te rohe rautaki me te ohanga nui o Livonia, te rohe tuku iho o te Livonian Order. I hangaia e te Rōpū Livonian he hononga ki te taha Polish-Lithuanian i te 1557 me te Tiriti o Pozvol. I hiahiatia e Lithuania me Poland, ka whakauruhia a Livonia ki te Karauna Polani e Sigismund II. Na enei whanaketanga i whakaeke a Ivan the Terrible o Russia ki te whakaeke i Livonia mai i te 1558, ana i muri mai ki Lithuania. I hinga te pā o Polotsk o te rangatiratanga nui i te 1563. I whai ake tenei i te wikitoria a Lithuania i te Pakanga o Ula
i te tau 1564, engari ehara i te hokinga mai o Polotsk. Ko nga mahi a Ruhia, Huitene me Polish-Lithuanian i wehewehe i a Livonia.