control. During a nine-week siege, the defenders were starved out and skirmishes with Frederick the Quarrelsome along the Austrian border hindered Andrew II to send subsequent relief army. According to the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle, Duke Andrew starved to death at the very beginning of 1234, which closed the conflict and King Andrew II's series of attempts to seize Halych–Volhynia for the Hungarian Crown. References Sources Primary sources The Hypatian Codex II: The Galician-Volynian Chronicle (An annotated translation by George A. Perfecky) (1973). Wilhelm Fink Verlag. LCCN 72-79463. Secondary sources People from Galicia–Volhynia Princes of Halych House of Árpád 13th-century Hungarian people 1210s births 1234 deaths Deaths by starvation Sons of kings