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Jogaila of Lithuania converted to Christianity and was baptized as a Catholic in 1386 to marry Hedwig, heiress to Poland. He returned to 1387 and oversaw the baptizing of most of the Lithuanian nobility. The pope ordered the destruction of pagan works in 1388 and formally recognized Lithuania as a Catholic state in 1389 ... but the Teutonic Order continued its crusade against "the pagans" until 1392. There was a major crusader siege of the Lithuanian capital in 1390. This leads me to ask a number of questions:
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Did the pope attempt to intervene to save Jogaila against the Teutonic Order or divert their actions elsewhere (like the Ottomans, who were beginning to draw major attention from the west around this time)?
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Did Jogaila ever call out the pope for allowing a holy order to make was on an obedient Catholic state?
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To what, if any, extent did the Western Schism play in the politics of the Teutonic campaigns against Poland and Lithuania?
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