Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Knights na Teutonic sun fara jagorantar kamfen ɗin su akan arna Lithuania (duba tatsuniyoyin Lithuania), saboda rikice-rikicen da suka daɗe a yankin (gami da ci gaba da mamaye yankin Roman Empire mai tsarki ta ƙungiyoyin bautar arna) da kuma rashin yankin da ya dace na aikin Knights, bayan faduwar Masarautar Urushalima a Acre a 1291 da kuma korarsu daga baya daga Hungary. Da farko mahayan sun koma hedkwatar su zuwa Venice, daga inda suka shirya dawo da Outremer, duk da haka, ba da daɗewa ba aka watsar da wannan shirin, kuma Daga baya Order ya koma hedkwatarsa zuwa Marienburg, don haka zai iya mai da hankali kan kokarinsa a yankin Prussia. Saboda "Lithuania Propria" ya kasance ba Krista ba har zuwa ƙarshen karni na 14, da yawa daga baya fiye da sauran gabashin Turai, rikice-rikicen ya daɗe, kuma yawancin Knights daga ƙasashen yammacin Turai, kamar Ingila da Faransa, sun yi tafiya zuwa Prussia don shiga cikin kamfen na yanayi ("reyse") a kan Grand Duchy na Lithuania. A shekara ta 1348, Order ya sami babban nasara a kan Lithuanians a yakin Strėva
, yana raunana su sosai. Knights na Teutonic sun sami nasara mai nasara a kan Lithuania a yakin Rudau a 1370.