The events of November 14th, 1308 were later the subject of protracted litigation in papal courts. The Poles charged the Knights with the murder of ten thousand people. The Knights denied the charge, claiming that they only executed sixteen criminals handed over to them by the burghers and then left peacefully, while the citizens of Gdansk set their own houses on fire and moved elsewhere of their own volition.
In 1309 the Knights took Tczew and expelled its residents. They besieged Swiec, which resisted firmly, thanks to supplies provided by Lokietek. A Polish relief force was repulsed, as was another rescue attempt helped by the princes of Masovia. The Knights of the Cross finally secured the city by subterfuge, when a man hired by them surreptitiously cut the ropes of the crossbows and catapults. Bogumil, the commander of the defence, held to the last, even though the pious friars threatened him with hanging if he did not surrender. Finally he was overcome by superior forces.
In September of 1309 the Knights of the Cross made a deal with the Margrave Waldemar, purchasing from him for ten thousand thalers his fictitious rights to Pomerania. Earlier, they had offered Lokietek a much larger sum, but he had refused to deal at any price.
On January 20th, 1320, Wladyslaw Lokietek and his wife Jadwiga, princess of Wielkopolska, were crowned king and queen of Poland by Archbishop Janislaw of Gniezo in the Cracow cathedral on Wawel hill.
In April of 1320, an ecclesiatical court in Inowroclaw took under advisement Poland's lawsuit for the return of Pomerania by the Knights of the Cross. The court, appointed by the pope, heard twenty-five witnesses. In the final stage of the proceedings it was presided over by Archbishop Janislaw. The verdict, given in February of 1321, ordered the Knights of the Cross to return Pomerania to Poland and to pay damages of thirty thousand thalers.
The Order ignored the verdict.