enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Teutonic Order - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Order

   Teutonic & Livonian Orders in 1422. The fraternity which preceded the formation of the Order was formed in the year 1191 in Acre by German merchants from Bremen and Lübeck. After the capture of Acre they took over a hospital in the city in order to take care of the sick and began to describe themselves as the Hospital of St. Mary of the German ...

3. Transylvanian Saxons - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvanian_Saxons

   Lived since the High Middle Ages onwards in Transylvania as well as in other parts of contemporary Romania. Additionally, the Transylvanian Saxons are the eldest ethnic German group in non-native majority German-inhabited Central-Eastern Europe, alongside the Zipsers in Slovakia and Romania (who began to settle in present-day Slovakia starting in the 13th century).

4. State of the Teutonic Order - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Teutonic_Order

   The Teutonic Knights seized the Polish port city of Gdańsk in November 1308. The Order had been called by King Władysław I of Poland to help repel a Brandenburgian invasion; however, the Teutonic Knights themselves began to occupy the city and the region. The Teutonic Knights then carried out a massacre of the inhabitants of the city ...

5. Battle on the Ice - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_on_the_Ice

   The Teutonic knights and crusaders charged across the lake and reached the enemy, but were held up by the infantry of the Novgorodian militia. [14] This caused the momentum of the crusader attack to slow. The battle was fierce, with the allied Rus' soldiers fighting the Teutonic and crusader troops on the frozen surface of the lake.

6. Grand Master of the Teutonic Order - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Master_of_the...

   The grand master of the Teutonic Order (German: Hochmeister des Deutschen Ordens; Latin: Magister generalis Ordo Teutonicus) is the supreme head of the Teutonic Order. It is equivalent to the grand master of other military orders and the superior general in non-military Roman Catholic religious orders. Hochmeister, literally "high master", is ...

7. Teutonic Knights in popular culture - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Knights_in...

   The Order and its relations with Poland, Masovia, and Lithuania are the main subject of Nobel Prize -winning Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz 's historical novel The Teutonic Knights, which describes the era of the Battle of Grunwald from the Polish point of view. A Polish film based on the novel, Krzyżacy, was released in 1960.