A crusading military order that conquered and governed the pagan Baltic lands east of Poland, establishing a unique theocratic state in Prussia and Livonia before secularizing as the Duchy of Prussia in 1525.
Secularized as the Duchy of Prussia in 1525, when Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach converted to Lutheranism and accepted the duchy as a fief of the Polish Crown at the Prussian Homage on 10 April 1525.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Teutonic Order State — the shape you scrub through changes in 1230 · 1290 · 1350 · 1446 · 1496.
Comprehensive military and political history of the Teutonic Order from its origins to its secularization.
The standard history of the Baltic crusades that built and sustained the Order's theocratic state.
Sienkiewicz's epic dramatizes the Polish-Lithuanian struggle against the Teutonic Knights, culminating at Grunwald (1410), within the Order-state's span.