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	ORB -- The Teutonic Knights
		The Grand Master's prizes and feasting for especially heroic knights became legendary and reminds one of various aspects of King Arthur's knights of the Round Table.
		The officials governing the Teutonic Order at the various levels were commander (Komtur, preceptor) at the local level, province commander (Landkomtur), national commander (Landmeister), and grand master (Hochmeister, magister).
		The patriarch of Jerusalem, the king of Jerusalem, the head of the crusading army, and the masters of the Templars and the Hospital of St.
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/religion/monastic/opsahl1.html (1791 words)

	Flags in the 'Banderia Prutenorum' Manuscript (Teutonic Order, Germany)
		Banner of the Master of Teutonic Order (smaller) under which served the most famous Teutonic knights and also, heavily-armored knights who came from Germany and other lands.
		Banner of the Teutonic Order, under which Grand Marshal of Prussia, Friedrich Wallerod, native of Franconia and of illustrous lineage, who, with his family, has a coat-of-arms of the river marked with cross and on the helmet, a crowned rooster.
		Banderia Prutenorum is a manuscript made by Jan Dlugosz (1415-1480) containing 56 images of flags captured from the Teutonic Knights by the Polish after the battle of Tannenberg (15 July 1410, Grunwald, nowadays in Poland) and designed in 1448 by the Polish painter Stanislao Durink.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de_to_bp.html (2439 words)

	TEUTONIC ORDER, THE - Online Information article about TEUTONIC ORDER, THE
		The Order was at variance within itself; some of the houses of the brethren refused to obey the marshal, and the grand master quarrelled with the German master.
		Of this movement the Teutonic Order became, along with the Hanse, the chosen representative.
		The master of the latter province had beaten off an attack of the Russians in 1502, and secured a fifty years' peace.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TAV_THE/TEUTONIC_ORDER_THE.html (3854 words)

	The Castle of Teutonic Knights
		In 14th century the old forecastle was converted into the Mid Castle with the Grand Refectory, The Knights' Hall and the Palace of the Grand Master.
		Most notable of these are vestiges of the struggles between the Poles and the Knights of the Order of Holy Virgin Mary, commonly known as the Teutonic Knights.
		Tourists who would like to learn more about the Teutonic Order are encourage to visit other places, which lie along the Trail of the Teutonic Knights, including Torun, Chelmno, Paslek, Morag, Ostroda, Olsztyn, Mragowo, Ketrzyn, Gierloz and Gizycko.
	www.poland-embassy.si /eng/poland/malbork.htm (485 words)

	Teutonic Knights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Order and its relations with its neighbours (Poland, the Duchy of Masovia and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) are the main subject of a novel Krzyżacy (or, in English, The Knights of the Cross) by the Polish author and Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz.
		The Order did not conquer Prussia in order to incorporate it into Poland, but instead ruled it under permits issued by both the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor as a sovereign Teutonic Order state, comparable to the arrangement of the Knights Hospitallers in Rhodes and later in Malta.
		An invasion force under Grand Master Konrad of Jungingen conquered the island in 1398, destroyed Visby and drove the Victual Brothers out of Gotland and the Baltic Sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Teutonic_Knights (1457 words)

	Teutonic Knights
		The Teutonic Knights found their calling to be more than just charitable in 1191 during the siege of Richard the Lionheart (though charitable causes were always a priority to these knights).
		Official recognition of the Teutonic Knights came in 1199 when Pope Innocent the Third put the weight of the Church’s authority behind these knights.
		The Teutonic Knights took care of fellow Germans struggling after the bitter war.
	faculty.smu.edu /bwheeler/Ency/tknights.html (221 words)

	Teutonic Knights on Encyclopedia.com
		TEUTONIC KNIGHTS [Teutonic Knights] or Teutonic Order, German military religious order founded (1190-91) during the siege of Acre in the Third Crusade.
		The fatal blow to the order was delivered in 1525 by its own grand master, Albert of Brandenburg, who accepted the Reformation, declared Prussia a secular duchy, and was invested as duke by Sigismund I of Poland.
		The knights administered their lands from Marienburg, but they granted considerable freedom to the cities, many of which joined the Hanseatic League.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/TeutonK1n.asp (642 words)

	Crusader States, Kings of Jerusalem & Cyprus, Templars, Hospitallers, Israel, etc.
		The Grand Master and all the Knights present were killed after the Battle of Hattin, 1187, since Saladin did not show the mercy to the Military Orders that he always did to everyone else -- he may have been in some horror of the warrior monks, since in Islâm celibacy might be regarded as unnatural.
		The Teutonic Knights, or the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St. Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem, was founded at Acre in 1191 (or thereabouts), after Jersualem had fallen (1187) and the Third Crusade (1189-1192) was trying to recover the Crusaders' position in Palestine.
		As long as Lithuania was pagan, and engaged in slaving and in human sacrifices, the task of the Knights still seems a worthy one.
	www.friesian.com /outremer.htm (14262 words)

	THE HERMETIC ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF TEMPLAR
		The leaders of the order, including the last grand master, Jacques de Molay, were tried by ecclesiastic judges and sentenced to life imprisonment, but after denouncing their confessions authorities burned them at the stake as lapsed heretics (1314).
		As Crusaders the knights were important both in fighting the Muslims (notably at Gaza in 1244 and later at Damietta, during the Fifth Crusade) and in the internal struggles of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
		Although the Knights of the White Cross (the Hospitalers) were at first probably larger and richer, the Templars, who wore the red cross on a white background, were greater warriors.
	www.geocities.com /satanicus_2/Templar.html (824 words)

	The Teutonic Order
		In 1923 archduke Eugen resigned as Grand Master; in 1929 the Pope reorganized the order as a purely religious order of priests.
		The Teutonic Order was founded in 1190 during the siege of Acre, when a hospital brotherhood was established to care for the many sick German crusaders.
		Insignia of the Teutonic Order, by Arnaud Bunel
	www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/teutonic.htm (814 words)

	American Jousting Alliance - Articles - The Teutonic Knights
		The order was composed of three types of brethren: knights, priests and sergeants, and was ruled by a Grand Master and a specially chosen Chapter of Knights.
		The natives of Lithuania were very close to the wild Prussians in their customs and fierce, blood-stained religion, but had the advantage of being a united people under intelligent and warlike rulers who were often, both militarily and diplomatically, a match for the Masters of the Teutonic Knights.
		Even though the Teutonic Knights continued to fight in the Holy Land until the last stand at Acre in 1291, their main activity had been centered in Northern Europe since the beginning of the 13th Century.
	www.jameszoppe.com /article15.htm (847 words)

	History of Hel - Castles of Poland
		In 1378 Grand Master of the order Winrich von Kniprode renews localization act of the place.
		Teutonic Knights probably destroyed all documents related to ownership of Hel by Pomeranian dukes.
		Any other documents confirming city privileges of Hel were not preserved, but there exist records that settlement was treated as if it was based on Lubeka law, which could mean that it had status of a city.
	www.castlesofpoland.com /prusy/hel_hist_en.htm (795 words)

	The Protestant Reformation brought about great change in the Baltic Region of Europe
		The Order was unstable because of the religious conversion, as well as the fact that their power had been reduced in previous years (in 1410 the Teutonic Knights were destroyed by the Grand Duke of Lithuania in GDL).
		By 1236, the Sword Brethren allied with the Order of the Teutonic Knights and became known as the Livonian Order of the Teutonic Knights.
		In 1525 the Master of the Order Walter Von Plettenberg converted himself and the Order to the Lutheran faith.
	depts.washington.edu /baltic/papers/reform.html (2137 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Teutonic Order
		To maintain itself against the kings of Poland the order had to rely on Germany and to confide the office of Grand Master to German princes.
		The knight Hermann Balk, appointed Provincial of Prussia, with twenty-eight of his brother knights and a whole army of crusaders from Germany began this struggle which lasted twenty-five years and was followed by colonization.
		There are at present 20 professed knights who are bound to celibacy while they enjoy a benefice of the order, and 30 knights of honour who are not bound to this observance, but who must furnish an entrance fee of 1500 florins and an annual contribution of 100 florins.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14541b.htm (1302 words)

	The Order of the Holy Sepulcher
		The Order is governed by the Grand Master with the officers of the Grand Magistery, which is composed of the Governor-General, who is nominated by the Grand Master from among the lay knights.
		Unlike the Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights, the Holy See did not constitute the Holy Sepulcher knights as members of a Religious Order of the Church.
		The statutes put forward the preposterous claim that the "Order" had been founded by Godfrey of Bouillon and that the Kings of France were "Grand Masters".
	www.chivalricorders.org /vatican/holysep.htm (1302 words)

	Teutonic Order
		The last Habsburg Grand Master resigned shortly after the First World War and the admission of knights to membership ceased immediately; today there are no survivors from the Habsburg era and the Order functions as a religious Order of the Church, operating principally in Austria, Germany, north Italy and parts of former Yugoslavia.
		The Grand Master acknowledged Papal authority in spiritual matters, but by promising that no part of the treaty could be annulled by the Pope he was in breach of canon law as the Superior of a Religious Order and therefore subject to the Holy See.
		Although they retained some sixty towns and fortresses the Grand Master had to recognize the Polish King as his feudal overlord and do homage therefore, although the Emperor, nominal overlord of Prussia and superior of the Grand Master as a Prince of the Empire, was not consulted.
	www.chivalricorders.org /vatican/teutonic.htm (1302 words)

	Teutonic Order
		The (Grand) Marshal, likewise immediately subordinate to the Master, was in command of the knights and ordinary troops and was responsible for insuring they were properly equipped.
		The new Grand Master, the Archduke Anton, was the son of the Emperor Leopold II and brother of Francis I of Austria, and had already been elected Prince Bishop of Munster and Archbishop of Cologne.
		When their courageous Grand Master, Ulrich von Jungingen was killed in the center of the melée, dying from wounds inflicted in both the front and back of his chest, the fight was lost.
	www.chivalricorders.org /vatican/teutonic.htm (1302 words)

	Teutonic Order
		The first Teutonic hospital, of Saint Thomas, was confirmed by the Emperor Henry VI in 1197 and, in the same year, the Emperor and Empress granted the knights their request for possession of the Church of Santa Trinità in Palermo.
		The Master's deputy, the (Grand) Commander, to whom the priests were subject, governed the Order in the absence of his superior.
		The badge of the Order is a latin Cross in black enamel with a white enamel border, surmounted (for Knights of Honor) by a helmet with black and white feathers or (for Marians) by a simple circular ornament, and is suspended from a black and white ribbon.
	www.chivalricorders.org /vatican/teutonic.htm (1302 words)

	Teutonic Order
		The new Grand Master, the Archduke Anton, was the son of the Emperor Leopold II and brother of Francis I of Austria, and had already been elected Prince Bishop of Munster and Archbishop of Cologne.
		When their courageous Grand Master, Ulrich von Jungingen was killed in the center of the melée, dying from wounds inflicted in both the front and back of his chest, the fight was lost.
		The Grand Master acknowledged Papal authority in spiritual matters, but by promising that no part of the treaty could be annulled by the Pope he was in breach of canon law as the Superior of a Religious Order and therefore subject to the Holy See.
	www.chivalricorders.org /vatican/teutonic.htm (1302 words)

	Timeline 1450-1499
		The knights, formerly strictly a German order, were forced to accept Poles as members and their grand master became a vassal of the Polish king.
		The Peace of Thorn (Torún) ended the war between the Teutonic knights (a German military and religious order) and their subjects in Prussia, led by King Casimir IV (1427-1492) of Poland.
		1466 Oct 19, The peace of Torun ended the 13-year War of the Cities (1454-1466), between the Teutonic knights and their own disaffected subjects in Prussia.
	timelines.ws /1450_1475.HTML (1302 words)

	Teutonic Order
		The first Teutonic hospital, of Saint Thomas, was confirmed by the Emperor Henry VI in 1197 and, in the same year, the Emperor and Empress granted the knights their request for possession of the Church of Santa Trinità in Palermo.
		The Master's deputy, the (Grand) Commander, to whom the priests were subject, governed the Order in the absence of his superior.
		The badge of the Order is a latin Cross in black enamel with a white enamel border, surmounted (for Knights of Honor) by a helmet with black and white feathers or (for Marians) by a simple circular ornament, and is suspended from a black and white ribbon.
	www.chivalricorders.org /vatican/teutonic.htm (9042 words)

	Teutonic Order
		The first Teutonic hospital, of Saint Thomas, was confirmed by the Emperor Henry VI in 1197 and, in the same year, the Emperor and Empress granted the knights their request for possession of the Church of Santa Trinità in Palermo.
		The Master's deputy, the (Grand) Commander, to whom the priests were subject, governed the Order in the absence of his superior.
		The badge of the Order is a latin Cross in black enamel with a white enamel border, surmounted (for Knights of Honor) by a helmet with black and white feathers or (for Marians) by a simple circular ornament, and is suspended from a black and white ribbon.
	www.chivalricorders.org /vatican/teutonic.htm (9042 words)

	News: Knights of the Cross screens & facts - GamersHell.com
		The events of the game take place in 15th Century Eastern Europe, before and after the siege of Marienburg (Malbork), the Grand-Commandery (capital) of The Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, who, by 1410, ruled most of Prussia and the Baltic States.
		A Knight of the Cross is the name of the Germanic Order of Teutonic Knights (their actual title being "The Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem”).
		Knights of the Cross could be what you’ve been looking for.
	www.gamershell.com /news_2325.html (548 words)

	Crusader States, Kings of Jerusalem & Cyprus, Templars, Hospitallers, Israel, etc.
		Crusader states can also include the lands of the Teutonic and Livonian Knights in the Baltic, which lasted until Prussia was secularized in 1525 and the last Grand Master of the Livonian Knights was made Duke of Courland by Poland in 1561.
		The Teutonic Knights, or the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St. Mary of the Teutons in Jerusalem, was founded at Acre in 1191 (or thereabouts), after Jersualem had fallen (1187) and the Third Crusade (1189-1192) was trying to recover the Crusaders' position in Palestine.
		The new State of Israel was able to assemble a continuous piece of territory, with about the land area of New Jersey, from the Gulf of Aqaba to Lebanon, including a salient that ended at the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
	www.friesian.com /outremer.htm (548 words)

	Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Order of Gediminas (Lithuania)
		In October 1323 various ecclesiastical representatives and the grand master of the Teutonic Order assembled at Vilnius, which Gediminas had recently made his capital, and a compact was signed confirming peaceful relations.
		The Teutonic Knights thereupon resumed the war against Gediminas, and for the remainder of his reign he was primarily concerned with defending his realm against the Knights, whose strength was reinforced by Western crusaders when it became evident that Gediminas would not honour his promise of conversion.
		1341), grand duke of Lithuania, the strongest contemporary ruler of eastern Europe.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-honours-lithuania.htm (548 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Grunwald
		This was used as a pretext and on August 14, 1409 the Teutonic Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen declared war on the Polish-Lithuanian union.
		This is thought to be a diplomatic defeat of Poland and Lithuania as there were attempts to dismantle the Teutonic Knights state altogether.
		The overall commander of the joint Polish-Lithuanian forces was king WÅadysÅaw JagieÅÅo, with the Polish units subordinated to Marshal of the Crown Zbigniew of Brzezie and Lithuanian units under the immediate command of Grand Duke Vytautas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Grunwald (548 words)

	Teutonic_Order
		The Order did not conquer Prussia in order to incorporate it into Poland, but instead ruled it under permits issued by both the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor as a sovereign Teutonic Order state, comparable to the arrangement of the Knights Hospitallers in Rhodes and later in Malta.
		When the mission of the order in Palestine was nearing its end, the Teutonic Knights moved their headquarter to Venice and offered their services to Christian rulers confronted with hostile non-Christian neighbors.
		An invasion force under Grand Master Konrad of Jungingen conquered the island in 1398, destroyed Visby and drove the Victual Brothers out of Gotland and the Baltic Sea.
	www.partsquote.com /search.php?title=Teutonic_Order (1159 words)

	History of Teutonic Order
		The Knights of the Teutonic Order formed in the 11th century and from 1189 through 1190, Hanseatic Knights from the Konigsberg and Marienberg region of what would later became Prussia, followed traditions set by Knights Templar and St John Hospitallers and marched to the Holy Lands (3
		With World War 1 and the end of the Habsburg Empire, Archduke Eugen was forced to resign as Grand Master, and the Pope re-organised the Order as a religious order of Priests.
		In 1809 the order was expelled from most of Germany, surviving only in Austria, seat of the Habsburg’s, and in 1839, was re-organised by the then Austrian Emperor as a Catholic Charitable Institution, and Nuns, who had existed in the original medieval Order, were re-introduced.
	www.teutonicknight.com /welcome/page3.php (1159 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Teutonic Order
		The Order of Teutonic Knights was founded and took its place beside the other two orders of Jerusalem, the Hospitallers and the Templars.
		To maintain itself against the kings of Poland the order had to rely on Germany and to confide the office of Grand Master to German princes.
		(1) There was already a Teutonic hospital for pilgrims from Germany in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, with a church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, who is still the patroness of the order and after whom the name Mariani is sometimes given to its members.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14541b.htm (1159 words)

	Timeline 1450-1499
		The knights, formerly strictly a German order, were forced to accept Poles as members and their grand master became a vassal of the Polish king.
		The Peace of Thorn (Torún) ended the war between the Teutonic knights (a German military and religious order) and their subjects in Prussia, led by King Casimir IV (1427-1492) of Poland.
		Poland was given Pomerelia and West Prussia, and the knights retained East Prussia, with a new capital at Königsberg (Kaliningrad).
	timelines.ws /1450_1475.HTML (1159 words)

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