He, with the help of his servant Alfas, broke a hole in a three meter-thick wall and left the castle by horses dressed up as Teutonic knights.

Kęstutis managed to escape from captivity about half a year later.

The ransom, which crusaders asked for Kęstutis, was most likely too high. Negotiations regarding Kęstutis's liberation were arranged two times but without results. Kęstutis, being over 60 years old at the time, was only defeated only by a third experienced knight who attacked him. After a skirmish Kęstutis, who was captured by the crusaders, was detained in Malbork Castle. Small squad of Teutonic knights which was returning from the failed military campaign against Lithuania, attacked the military camp of Kęstutis and Algirdas near the Ublik (Wobel) lake. In March 1361, Kęstutis along with his son Patrikas and brother - Grand Duke of Lithuania Algirdas destroyed and took over Teutonic Eckersberg and Johannisburg castles. Malbork castle, where Kęstutis was detained in 1361 In fact, Kęstutis had no intentions to comply with the agreement and ran away on their road to Buda. The agreement was approved with a pagan ritual by Kęstutis to convince the other side. During the Polish-Lithuanian war for Volhynia, King Louis I of Hungary made a peace agreement with Kęstutis on 15 August 1351, according to which Kęstutis obliged himself to accept Christianity and provide the Kingdom of Hungary with military aid, in exchange for the royal crown. The intermediary in the negotiations, Polish King Casimir III, made an unexpected assault on Volhynia and Brest in October 1349 that ruined the Kęstutis's plan. Algirdas willingly remained aside of the business and was concerned with the order in the Ruthenian part of the state. In 1349, to avoid further clashes with the Teutonic Order, he started negotiations with Pope Clement VI for the Christianization of Lithuania, receiving promises for royal crowns for him and his sons. Kęstutis employed different military as well as diplomatic means in his struggle on the western borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Riot Baby: An incandescent Afrofuturist novella.Trakai Peninsula Castle built by Kęstutis.Manyland: An open-ended virtual world you visit in your browser.Library of Last Resort: Interactive fiction, meet metafiction.Powell's botanically correct flower guy is in trouble: Arnold Drake World is about to lose his home.Mayor of Las Vegas says the 'free market' will decide what's safe: Reality has a leftist bias.Mayor of Las Vegas says the 'free market' will decide what's safe Powell's botanically correct flower guy is in trouble Library of Last Resort Manyland Riot Baby Shared microbial destiny,las vegas,carolyn goodman,crowdfunding,arnold drake world,origami,botany,art,games,text adventures,metafiction,games,virtual worlds,manyland,crowdfunding,science fiction,reviews,Tochi Onyebuchi,science fiction