In 1276–1277, Scalovia was subjugated by the Teutonic Knights. In the chronicles of the Knights were mentioned the nobles "Sarecka" (Sareikā), "Surbantas", "Svirdotas" and "Surdota". In 1281, "Jondele Schalwithe" got the first "Landesprivileg," and in 1289 the castle of order Ragnit was built. Between 1281 and 1383, privileges were made out: 1338 in "Pleikischken" near Plaschken, 1312 and 1333 near "Sasavo" in the region between Laugßargen and Tauragė, 1307 in "Sintine" near Tilsit, 1307 "Gigen" (near present-day Pagėgiai), 1309 "Linkone", 1350 "Linkonen" (Linkuhnen) as well as "Weinoten" near Tilsit, "Tusseinen" near Ragnit and "Linkuhnen". Lithuanian immigrants were "Sipe" (1339) and the brothers "Pogins and Skirgaila" (1359). In 1411, a campaign of the Samogitians under their leader Rumbaudas Valimantaitis against the castles of Ragnit, Tilsit and Splitter is testified.