Friedeburgh or Friedeburg was a short-lived castle of the Teutonic Knights in Samogitia (exact location is unknown). It was built after the Treaty of Salynas was signed in 1398 and Samogitia was granted to the Knights by Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania. The castle was to become administrative center of Samogitia. Heinrich von Schwelborn was appointed as the vogt to facilitate territory's incorporation into the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights (sometimes future Grand Master Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg is incorrectly given as the first vogt of Samogitia; he was appointed only after the Peace of Raciąż of 1404). Here the last recorded "Table of Honor" was held. The castle was burned in March 1401 by the Samogitians during the first Samogitian uprising. The uprising was
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