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The Teutonic Knights
(
Latin
Ordo Domus Sanctae Mariae Teutonicorum; German: Deutscher Orden, also translated
The German Order
,
Official name
for
Order of Our Lady of the German Brethren in Jerusalem
(Latin: Ordo domus Sanctae Mariae Theutonicorum Ierosolimitanorum; German: Orden der Bruder vom Deutschen Haus Sankt Mariens in Jerusalem), yes
Holy Roman Empire
Middle Ages
period
Catholicism
Military organization, famous
The three Orders of Knights
One of them. The early members were all
German
The Knights yield
Poland
post-acceptance
Polish
.
- Chinese name
- The Teutonic Knights
- Foreign name
- Ordo domus Sanctae Mariae Theutonicorum Ierosolimitanorum
- Headquarters location
- Akka , Venice , Marburg , Konigsberg Etc.
- Time of existence
- 1190 to date
- Port number
- Helfen, Wehren, Heilen (help, guard, heal)
- Object of allegiance
- Pope of Rome , Holy Roman Emperor
- beacon
- Black cross on white, yellow cross on white
- nation-building
- The Kingdom of the Teutonic Order
On March 5, 1198, the Teutonic Order was founded in what is now Acre
Israel
It was then based in Acre until 1291.
The Teutonic Order was founded in 1224 after the conquest of Prussia and the Old Prussians
The Kingdom of the Teutonic Order
.
1512, from Brandenburg
The Hohenzollern family
the
Albrecht
Was chosen as a Teutonic
knighthood
Grand Master. He's a close relative of the Elector of Brandenburg. Under the influence of Martin Luther, in 1525 he declared his conversion to Lutheranism, thus severing his ties with the titular Master of the Order
Holy See
The connection, announced
The Kingdom of the Teutonic Order
Secularized, the Order's territory changed to
Duchy of Prussia
Albrecht took charge
Dukes of Prussia
But the Teutonic Order as an organization still exists.
In 1929, the Pope
Pius XI
Decreed that the Teutonic Order became a purely religious order of friars to assist with the public nature existing into contemporary times.
The First Crusade
(1096-1099) was the only successful Eastern expedition, with about 100,000 participants.
Jack
The Crusades
The army was divided into four groups, and in 1097 it would converge at Constantinople and then cross the sea
Asia Minor
He captured the Turkish capital Nikiah and other cities, plundered them, and captured Jerusalem on July 15, 1099.
Battle of Jerusalem
After entering the city, he killed 7,000 people, and then, following the model of European countries, in
Mediterranean
Several feudal states were established in the coastal areas. The crusaders levied excessive taxes, prompting the people to constantly rise up and the regime to be unstable.
[1]
The Second Crusade
(1147-1149), was in
King of France
Louis VII
And"
Holy Roman Empire
"The Emperor,
Germany
King
Conrad III
Led by. The conquest of Edessa by the Turks in 1144 was the cause of this expedition. The German crusaders were dispatched earlier in
Anatolia
Defeated by the Turks. The French Crusaders captured
Damascus
The expedition failed to achieve any purpose.
[1]
The Third Crusade
During the period (1189-1192), knights from the German region were given land and castles on several occasions. In April 1195, he was given by Count Henri of Champagne
Till
(Tyre, today
Lebanon
In March 1196, he was given a fief at Jaffa (near present-day Tel Aviv). Another Kaiser
Henry VI
Presented in 1197 to churches in Italy and Sicily,
cloister
And hospitals, and gradually became a force in the Jerusalem area.
On March 5, 1198, the Teutonic Order was founded in what is now Acre
Palestine
It was then based in Acre until 1291.
September 19, 1199, Pope
Innocent the Third
Give orders, make rules
Teutonic knight
The beatles
Templar
The same cloak (a white cloak with a Red Cross and sword embroidered on it), wearing a black cross and carrying out the same order rules as the Hospitallers.
The Fourth Crusade
(1202-1204) by the Pope
Innocent the Third
Start. The aim was to capture Muslim-controlled Egypt as a base for future operations. The Crusaders, composed mainly of French and Italian nobles, did not have enough money to pay the Venetians to cross the sea to Egypt, and on the advice of the Venetian nobles, the Crusaders attacked the city of Zara
Croatia
the
Zadar
). And take advantage of
Byzantium
Domestic disputes turned to the attack on Constantinople, which was bloody for three days after looting and destruction.
[1]
After the Great War, Venice was occupied
The Byzantine Empire
Three-eighths of the territory (incl
Aegean Sea
,
The Adriatic Sea
Along the coast many ports and
Crete
). The Crusades were founded from Constantinople
Latin Empire
And the two vassal states of the Latin Empire in Constantinople, respectively
Duchy of Athens
and
The Duchy of Achaia
.
[1]
In the early 13th century, with the Knights Hospitaller and
The Knights Templar
The antagonism intensified, with the Hospitalists courting the Teutonic Order against the Templars, who controlled the main military positions in the Jerusalem area, and the Teutonic Order gaining Magat Castle from the Hospitalists.
In 1210,
Hermann von Salza
Hermann von Salza (1179-1239) served as master of the Teutonic Order, which achieved certain victories in the Jerusalem area under his command, and participated
The Fifth Crusade
Entered Egypt, but ended up in
Manzura
In the Battle of al-Mansura (30 August 1221), Elman von Salza was defeated and captured along with the master of the Templar Order. Under the leadership of Ermann von Salza, the Teutonic Order received a certificate of atonement from the Holy See (18 February 1216) and 113 privileges granted by Pope Honorius III (9 January 1221).
In 1226, the Teutonic Knights fought
Holy Roman Empire
Emperor Friedrich II reached an agreement to obtain
Prussia
All aristocratic privileges within the territory.
In 1234, the Teutonic Knights won the Battle of Segnar, and the Holy See took control of all of Prussia and leased it to the Teutonic Knights, but it was not until 1285 that the Teutonic Knights finally conquered Prussia and forced the Prussians to convert to Catholicism. In the meantime, in April 1237, Livonia merged
The Knights of the Sword
They began their march in early 1241
Duchy of Novgorod
.
But times change rapidly, and history soon presents them with new opportunities.
1211, King of Hungary
Andre II
Andreas II invited the Knights to help suppress the Kumanen in exchange for the removal of the Siebenburgen region
Romania
Burzenland in the south was given to the Knights as a fief. (A lot of people later thought
Andre II
Did a stupid thing, let the wolves in, brought the knights
Eastern Europe
. I think so!)
In 1225, as the Teutonic Knights attempted to establish an independent state on their fiefdom,
Andre II
Set them
deportation
.
Once again, the Order was in trouble. But things soon took a turn for the better when
Poland
Konrad von Masowien attempted to expand to the north into the Kulmerland region, but was defeated by the native Prussians, who not only failed to expand his territory, but part of his original territory was taken by the Prussians. Conrad was so upset that he called for a crusade against the pagans in Kulmerland in the name of religion, but the other Polish princes ignored him and seemed to be waiting for a joke. The Prussians there were very fierce, and his army was losing ground. Cornered, Conrad appealed to the Teutonic Order to help him conquer the Prussians.
if
Andre II
Asking the Order to help him crush the Kumanrae was a mistake made in ignorance, and Conrad asking the Order to help him conquer the Prussians can only be described as foolish. Of course, the other Polish princes were also involved, and if they had helped Conrad sooner, he would not have had to bring in the wolves, and in the end it all happened
Victim
.
After receiving this invitation, the Teutonic Knights of course said yes, but they did not want to repeat it
Hungary
The story of... Hermann von Salza, Grand master of the Order, ran first
Holy Roman Empire
Emperor
Frederick II
There, a golden bull was obtained from the emperor: the Teutonic Order
possessory
The land Conrad had given them and the land they had acquired after conquering the Prussians, an attack on the Knights' territory would be severely punished by the Holy Roman Empire. With a written guarantee from Fitley II, the Teutonic Knights would legitimately claim the lands they had conquered.
Conrad began to regret this, and in order to prevent the Teutonic Order from taking root next to him, Conrad organized an order, the Christian Order of Prussia, and carried out his own crusade against the Prussians. This time he failed again, unable to hold even the core of his territory, and Conrad bowed his head in defeat.
In 1230, he signed a treaty with the Teutonic Order promising that if the Teutonic Knights conquered Kulmerland, he would give it to the Order in perpetuity. This meant that the Teutonic Knights had ownership of Kulmerland, not a fiefdom - the ownership of which remained with the monarch.
In 1234, Pope Gregor IX issued the Golden Bull, which recognized the Knights' ownership of the lands they had conquered, while requiring them to surrender the land
aborigines
Christianization. So the Teutonic Knights had triple written promises, and all they had left to do was conquer the land, which was clearly what they were best at.
Beginning in 1226, the Teutonic Knights began their work to conquer Prussia. After more than 50 years of bloodshed, and suppression
Hercus Montt
It was initiated by others
Prussian uprising
By 1285, the Teutonic Knights had finally completed their conquest. On this land they established a powerful state, the Knights State, of which Prussia was the center.
In 1237, passed with Livonian
The Knights of the Sword
After the merger, Livonia became another wing of the Order, and like Prussia, the Order built a series of castles in Livonia
fortification
. Although the Teutonic Order focused its efforts on the colonization of the East, it did
Asia Minor
Its activities have not ceased and its headquarters have been in Arco.
After the fall of Acre in 1291, the Teutonic Knights did not follow
The Knights Templar
To Cyprus with the Knights Hospitaller, but to Venice.
In 1309, the Order's Venetian headquarters were moved to Marimburg in Prussia, and they became a fully independent state.
On July 15, 1410, the famous
Battle of Greenwald
Eruption. Poland -
Republic of Lithuania
39,000 coalition troops
Kings of Poland
Under the command of Vladislav Jagiello, he fought a decisive battle with a Teutonic force of about 27,000 near Tanrenborg and Greenwald. The Teutonic knights lost all their best men in the battle, 8,000 knights were killed, 2,000 were captured, and most of their leaders, including Grand Master von Junkingen, were killed. The Teutonic Knights were devastated, and Poland gradually regained the lost territory and gained
Gdansk
isotown
Baltic Sea
Outlet to the sea.
[2]
The Battle of Tanrenborg, which dealt a devastating blow to the Order, was something like
Battle of Hardin
towards
Kingdom of Jerusalem
The meaning of. The Kingdom of the Knights began its decline.
After the defeat in the foreign war, the Kingdom of the Order fell into internal strife from top to bottom. The peasants were dissatisfied with the extortion of the Knights and rebelled against them. Power struggles within the order intensified; The cities and local nobles, because of their high taxes, demanded
Participation in decision making
.
In 1440, 53 nobles and 19 cities founded a rebellion against the arbitrary rule of the Knights in Marimburg
Prussian union
.
In 1453, the Prussian League formed an alliance with Poland, which led to 13 consecutive years of war until it was signed in 1466
The Second Peace of Torun
Just finished (
Thirteen Years' War
). The peace resulted in the loss of a large amount of territory to the Knights, including Marimburg. Politically, the state of the Order was to acknowledge its submission to Poland, which caused great controversy within the Order.
The German regiment wants to go from
Holy Roman Empire
And the Papacy gained support there, and in 1494, the head of the German Division admitted to submission
Holy Roman Empire
Emperor
Maximilian the First
(Maximilians I.).
Under the external troubles and internal worries, the Knights of the country had come to the end of the mountain.
Luther
The Reformation brought the Order into history once again
watershed
.
In 1511, Albrecht, a 21-year-old from the Hohenzollern family, was elected the 37th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, also as a military man
Religious order
The last grand master of the Teutonic Order.
In 1520, Albrecht's refusal to submit to Poland led to a war between the Order States and Poland, and the Order States were defeated. Depressed, Albrecht returned to Germany. At that time, Germany was undergoing a vigorous religious reform, and Albrecht was soon attracted to Lutheran Protestantism, and met the initiator of the Reformation, Martin Luther.
At Luther's suggestion, Albrecht resigned as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, secularized the Order state into a duchy, reformed the religion within the duchy, and refused to accept Polish ministers abroad
Genus relation
. Conservative forces within the Order, as well as the German Catholic aristocracy, were unhappy with Albrecht's conversion, but Albrecht had married the daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, the northern power, in 1527, and the opposition could do nothing about him.
Albrecht
The conversion of Albrecht brought the history of the Teutonic Order as a military order to an end. Prussia, formerly part of the Knights, had been newly civilised by Albrecht, and Livonia had been
Poland
Occupy,
Estonia
be
Sweden
Annexation. The Knights no longer have a territory of their own.
In this situation, the Teutonic Order largely abandoned military tasks and focused on managing its own estate, which thereafter served only as a single order
Religious organization
And exist.
In 1809,
Napoleon
After the invasion of Germany, the act was declared dissolved
Military organization
The Teutonic Knights, the Knights only in
Austria
There's room for you.
In 1929, the Teutonic Order was reorganized into a purely religious order, and its name was changed from OT (Ordo Teutonicus) to DO (Deutscher Orden).
Today the German Order has about 1,000 members, who are mainly engaged in
charity
Including caring for the sick and the elderly. The contemporary order is divided into Italian, German, Austrian,
Czech Republic
,
Slovenia
The five districts are administered and their headquarters are located in Austria
Vienna
.
At the beginning of the order, the Pope authorized them to wear amandas
The Knights Templar
The same white robe, but with a black cross embroidered on it, as a distinction between the two. Since then, the black cross on a white background has become the symbol of the Teutonic Order. The cross on the flag of the Teutonic Knights is different from the normal cross in that it is tilted to the left rather than to the left.
If you pay attention
Nordic
The flag of the country will find that Sweden,
Denmark
,
Finland
, Norway,
Iceland
It's on all the flags of other countries
deviation
The cross on the left, this cross is called
Scandinavia
cross
.
The Kingdom of the Teutonic Order
Despite its demise, the Black Cross symbol of the Order was inherited and continued, in
Second Empire
,
Weimar Republic
As well as on the military flag of the Third Reich, the Black Cross was an important symbol, representing a succession of military traditions beginning with the Teutonic Knights.
The slogan of the Teutonic Order was "Helfen, Heilen, Wehren" (Help, heal, guard).
The expansion of the Teutonic Order in the East was not without difficulties, and in 1242 they were defeated by the Russian forces at the Battle of the Frozen Lakes. The battle is also known as
Chudvatn
The Battle of Peipussee
[3]
The number of troops invested by both sides is not clearly recorded in the history books, and the general estimate of the contemporary is that there were about 10,000 people on the side of the Knights, to the Teutonic Knights
Heavy cavalry
As the core. The Russian side had 15,000 to 17,000 men, mostly infantry, under the command of the Duke of Novgrod
Alexander
DangerCode; Jaros Travis.
The Russian troops formed a wall formation (a kind of phalanx, I suppose) and held the eastern shore of the glacial lake. The Knights began their attack in a wedge formation, or more specifically
Heavy cavalry
Assault for the vanguard, followed by infantry, flanks and rear by
Light cavalry
Protection. This wedge formation is a commonly used tactic of the Knights, and its advantage is that it has a strong assault ability and can quickly tear open the opposing defense line if the defenders
Military accomplishment
If it is not high, it is easy to cause the effect of tearing a little on the whole line of defeat. However, it also has its own shortcomings, its two wings of defense power is limited, if not quickly open the line of defense, the two wings will slowly erode.
Alexander was well aware of the characteristics of this tactic, so it took the chief of the allied forces
Light infantry
He placed himself in the middle, in a thickened phalanx, wearing down the Order's heavy cavalry and placing his own elite Novgrod infantry on his flanks. The Knights' attack was initially moderately successful, but the heavy Russian phalanx made it difficult for them to break the line completely.
Geographical disadvantage was perhaps the greatest problem for the Order, as the sloping and icy shores of the lake made it difficult for the Order's heavy cavalry to use their impact effectively, so the attack gradually stalled. The weak wings of the wedge-shaped formation then began to reveal their shortcomings, slowly compressing from the sides to the center under the pressure of Novgrod's elite infantry. The Knights began to be surrounded by allied forces. As a final blow, Alexander sent his best guards behind the right flank to attack the order. The encirclement of the Allied forces became smaller and smaller, and the Knights' heavy cavalry had strong individuals
Combat capability
However, due to the decreasing space for display, their combat effectiveness can not be played and can only be supported.
The Confederate infantry spearheaded the knight from his horse. As the ice could not bear the weight, many cavalry in heavy armor fell in
Ice hole
I couldn't climb back up. Only a few knights escaped from the encirclement of the Russian forces and fled to the West; most were killed, including about 500 knights, and more than 50 nobles were captured, including the Grand Master of the Order. On the Russian side, 3,500 men were said to have been killed and about the same number wounded. The devastating defeat in the Battle of the Ice Lake devastated the Teutonic Knights and halted their further expansion to the east.
South of the Order country
Poland
Originally divided, no match for the Order. But by the first half of the 14th century, Poland was under King
Wladyslaw the First
Once again united under the leadership of Wladislaw I, relations with the Order became strained.
The conquest of Danzig and Pommerellen by the Knights in 1308 led to a sharp deterioration in relations between the two countries, even after Poland recognized the Knights in the Peace of Karisch in 1343
Eastern Pomerania
The occupation of Pommerellen, and the enmity between the two sides remained undiminished. Poland's hatred of the Knights was an important potential threat to the Knights.
Nevertheless, the Knights reached their greatest strength in the second half of the 14th century under Grand Master Winrich von Kniprode (1351-1382), whom they defeated in 1370
Republic of Lithuania
- The Order's main enemy in the East.
In the face of strong pressure from the Knights, Lithuania and Poland gradually came together. In 1386, at the age of 38, Grand Marquis of Lithuania
Jagaivo
Jagiello and the 13-year-old Queen of Poland
Jadwiga
(Hedwig) married. After the marriage, the Grand Marquis of Lithuania was crowned King of Poland, and Lithuania and Poland were united
United front
And fight the Knights together.
In 1410, a major battle between the Knights and the Polish-Lithuanian Alliance took place near Tanenberg.
Battle of Greenwald
The battle was the largest knightly battle in medieval European history. There are different accounts of the strength of the two sides, but one thing is certain: the Order was smaller than the allied forces. The force on the Knights' side was probably between 11,000 and 27,000 men, commanded by the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Ulrich von Jungingen. The Polish-Lithuanian force was probably between 16,000 and 32,000 men, mainly Poles and Lithuanians, but also Russians and Tatars, and was commanded by the Polish king
Jagaivo
(Jagiello) and
Republic of Lithuania
The Grand Marquis Witold, who was Jagiello's cousin.
Jagaivo
Jagiello divided the army into three lines, with the first line stretching three kilometers. Witold commanded a combined force of Lithuanians, Russians, and Tatars on the right wing. The Order's army was also initially divided into three lines, but when Grand Commander Jung Chingen saw the long lines of the Allied forces and realized that they might be surrounded, it was divided into two lines (from this we can basically deduce that the ratio of the Knights to the Allied forces was about 2:3). Both sides split up the cavalry
Flag train
(a fighting unit in a medieval army of about 400 to 600 men) placed in the front line, while the infantry remained in the camp. The Knights also have stone bombs on the front line
mortar
.
At noon on July 15, 1410,
The Battle of Tanenberg
Here. Before the battle, the Grand Master of the Order, Rongjingen, sent two swords to the Polish king Jagiello, indicating that there would be a contest between knights.
The Order's artillery fired first at the allied forces, but with little success, for it rained and the powder was wet. Lithuanians and Tatars on the right flank of the Allied forces attacked the Knights under Witold's command, but the Knights quickly repelled their advance and counterattacked. The Allied Tatars were the first to flee, and the Union right wing was soon unable to hold the line. At this point, the Allied forces faced a very unfavorable situation: the German flag guards of the Order broke through the Allied right flank and attacked the Allied Polish main force in the center, and the other flag guards of the Order also charged from the front. Both sides share in
Second line
The troops of the third line went into battle, because everyone knew that success or failure was at stake. The balance of victory and defeat is final
Back to
On the allied side, the reason was nothing more than an accident on the battlefield: the grand commander of the Order, Rong Jingen, was killed in battle. After the loss of their supreme commander, the Order began to descend into chaos, with many knights fleeing the battlefield in a hurry. The Allied forces seized this opportunity to launch a charge and routed the Knights' army.
Republic of Venice
(1291-1309),
Marlborough Castle (1309-1466)
Konigsberg
Castle (1466-1525)
Baden-Wurttemberg
(1525-1809),
Vienna
(1809 - present)
The TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
-
The field hospital was HOSPITALLAR BROTHERHOOD
Acre (Akko) Era 1189/90-1230
Sibrand 1189/90-1192
Gerard 1192-1193/4
Heinrich
Heinrich 1193/4-1195
Ulrich 1195-1196
Heinrich (Walpot von Bassenheim?) 1196-1198.
knighthood
Successive GRAND MASTERS of the TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
Heinrich I Walpot von Bassenheim 1198-1200
Otto von Kerpen 1200-1206
Hermann von Salza 1209/10-1239
-
Montfort Era 1230-1271
Thuringia
Konrad I of Thuringia 1239-1240
Gerhard von Malberg 1241-1244
Heinrich III von Hohenlohe 1244-1249
Gunther von Schwarzenburg 1249-1253
Poppo von Osterna 1253-1257
Hanno von Sangershausen 1257-1274
-
The Acre (Akko) Era 1271-1291
Hartmann von Helbrungen 1274-1283
Burkhard von Schwanden 1283-1290
Venice Era 1291-1309
Konrad II von Feuchtwangen 1290-1297
Gottfried von Hohenlohe 1297-1302 d.1309
Siegfried von Feuchtwangen 1302-1310 d.1311
-
Marienburg (Prussia) Era 1309-1457
Karl Bessart 1311-1324
Werner Von Orselen 1324-1330
Lothar of Brunswick 1331-1335
Dietrich von Altenburg 1335-1341
Ludolf Konig Von Wattzau 1342-1345
Heinrich IV Dusener von Arfberg 1345-1351
Winrich von Kniprode 1351-1382
Konrad III Zollner von Rothstein 1382-1390
Konrad IV von Wallenrode 1391-1393
Konrad V von Juningen 1393-1407
Ulrich von Jungingen (died in battle) 1407-1410
Heinrich V von Reuss 1410-1413 d.1429
Michel Kuchenmeister von Sternburg 1414-1422
Paul Belenzer von Ruszdorf 1423-1440
Konrad VI von Erlichshausen 1441-1449
Ludwig von Erlichshausen 1450-1467
-
Konigsberg (East Prussia) Era 1457-1525
Heinrich VI von Reuss 1467-1470
Heinrich VII Reffle von Richtenberg 1470-1477
Martin Truchsetz von Wetzhausen 1477-1489
Johann von Tieffen 1489-1497
Friedrich of Saxony 1497-1510
Albert Albrecht of Brandenburg-Kulmbach 1510-1525 d.1568
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Vacancy period vacant 1525—1527
-
The Mergentheim Era 1527-1809
Melgenheim (a city in Maintaur, Baden-Wurttemburg, Germany, in the Tauber Valley)
Walter von Cronberg 1527-1543
Wolfgang Schutzbar 1543-1566
Georg Hundt von Weckheim 1566-1572
Heinrich VIII von Bobenhausen 1572-1590 d.1595
Karl I of Austria 1619-1624
Johann Eustach von Westernach 1625-1627
Johann Kaspar I von Stadion 1627-1641
Leopold Wilhelm of Austria 1641-1662
Karl Josef of Austria 1662-1664
Johann Kaspar II von Ampringen 1664-1684
Luther
Ludwig Anton of Palatinate-Neuburg 1685-1694
Ludwig Franz of Palatinate-Neuburg 1694-1732
Clemens August of Bavaria (Abp.-Elect.Cologne) 1732-1761
Charles Alexander of Lorraine 1761-1780
Maximilian Franz of Austria 1780-1801
Karl II of Austria 1801-1804
Anton Viktor of Austria 1804-1835
-
It was dissolved in 1809 and rebuilt in 1834, but only as a charitable hospital
Maximilian of Austria-Este 1835-1863
Wilhelm Franz Karl of Austria 1863-1894
Eugen Ferdinand Pius Bernhard of Austria 1894-1923 d.1954
-
The clergy led the PRIESTLY ORDER
Dr. Norbert Klein 1923-1933
Paul Heider 1933-1936
Robert Schalzky 1936-1948
Dr. Marian Tumler 1948-1970
Ildefons Pauler 1970-1988
Dr. Arnold Othmar Wieland 1988-2000
Bruno Platter 2000-