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On 15 July 1410, the leader of the Teutonic order Jungingen was defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian army at Tannenberg. In 1451, the Teutonic order only had two hundred twenty-six Knights, four hundred two priests, and thirty-two Sariant Brothers. In 1466, the Teutonic state was ruled by the King of Poland. In 1525, they lost their most valuable ...
Teutonic Order, or Teutonic Knights officially House of the Hospitallers of Saint Mary of the Teutons, Religious order important in eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages.Founded in 1189–90 to nurse the sick in Palestine during the Third Crusade, it was militarized in 1198 and given land in Jerusalem and Germany.It transferred its base of operations to eastern Europe in the 13th century ...
Oct 4, 2018 · The order of Teutonic Knights dominated the campaigns of the Northern Crusades from the mid-13th century and carved out its own militarised state in Prussia. Although the order did eventually convert the region to Christianity, the religious motive was essentially an excuse to acquire land and riches.
The basis for any investigation into the Teutonic Order’s Prussian territories remains the 9-volume work of Johannes Voigt (1786–1823), Professor of History at the University of Königsberg and Director of the Prussian Privy State Archives, Die Geschichte Preußens von den ältesten Zeiten bis zum Untergange der Herrschaft des Deutschen ...
This spectacular fortress bears witness to the phenomenon of the Teutonic Order state in Prussia. The state was founded in the 13th century by German communities of military monks who carried out crusades against the pagan Prussians and Lithuanians living on the south Baltic coast, as well as against the Christian Kingdom of Poland. ...
Jan 18, 2023 · Almost all the southern coastline of the Baltic Sea, from its beginning near Lübeck to the Gulf of Finland, belonged either to the Empire or to the State of the Order of the Teutonic Knights, including the German provinces of Mecklenburg, Pomerania, Prussia and the present-day Baltic states.
administrative divisions of the state of the Teutonic Order both in Prussia and Livonia, and Andrzej Radzimiński considers church divisions in Prussia in the first main part and the same topic in Livonia in the second one. The only exception is Marian Biskup who wrote about two different topics. Biskup
