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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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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

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

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

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

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

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

Then in dusky Spanish mantles, Ornamented with white crosses, Came the great Teutonic Order, All the Knights and their Commander.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

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

The Elector Frederic William had freed the Prussian territories of the Teutonic order from the Polish suzerainty.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

During the war in June, the king of Wurtemberg took possession of Mergentheim, the chief seat of the Teutonic order, which had, up to the present period, remained unsecularized.

From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Horrocks, Mrs. George

The most conspicuous factor in this labor of colonization was the Teutonic order of chivalry, transferred to the Baltic from Palestine.

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