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  Teutonic Order

  noun

  a religious military order founded c1190 in the Holy Land by German crusaders that originally did charitable work among the sick and later fought against the Slavic and Baltic peoples in the eastward expansion of medieval Germany.
• Teutonic order
  Teutonic order

  noun

  a military and religious order of German knights, priests, and serving brothers founded about 1190 during the Third Crusade, later conquering large parts of the Baltic provinces and Russia

Teutonic Order

American  

noun

1. a religious military order founded c1190 in the Holy Land by German crusaders that originally did charitable work among the sick and later fought against the Slavic and Baltic peoples in the eastward expansion of medieval Germany.

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Teutonic order British  

noun

1. Also called: Teutonic Knights. a military and religious order of German knights, priests, and serving brothers founded about 1190 during the Third Crusade, later conquering large parts of the Baltic provinces and Russia

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Warsaw had been asking for the return of the Teutonic Order archives since 1948.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

The items reportedly also include documents from the Teutonic Order -- a Catholic brotherhood of crusading knights active in the Middle Ages.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

These kingdoms lasted a remarkably long time; the Teutonic Order ruled Livonia until 1561, when it was finally ousted.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

The Teutonic Order ultimately outlasted the other crusading orders by centuries.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

His Electoral Highness has lately sent him to347 Rome, to desire the Holy Father’s Approbation of his Election, as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

In the mid-1990s, he became disillusioned with the "Teutonic order" at Audi and left.

From Time Magazine Archive

The purest blood and the most active brains of the old empire left their homes on the Main and the Weser to colonize and conquer under the leadership of the Teutonic order.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various

During the mastership of Otho de Kerpen, an order of knighthood arose in the north of Europe, which was afterward incorporated with the Teutonic order.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

But in the fifteenth century the tyrannical severity of the Teutonic order had driven the German cities and landowners of West Prussia to an alliance with Poland.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various

He made himself sovereign over Prussia, and annexed the possessions of the Teutonic order to his family.

From A Short History of Germany by Mary Platt Parmele

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