The Teutonic Order's strategy was to move down the Vistula and secure the delta, establishing a barrier between the Prussians and Danzig ( Present day Gdańsk ).

Moreover, he entered into correspondence with Luther, discussing with him the most important problems of faith, and in 1524 he met him personally during the negotiations concerning his brother Albert's secularization of the Teutonic Order's state of Prussia into the secular Duchy of Prussia.

They continued, however, to function in all respects ( rule, clothing and policy ) as an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order, headed by their own Master ( himself de jure subject to the Teutonic Order's Grand Master ).

The Teutonic Order's attempts to conquer Orthodox Russia ( particularly the Republics of Pskov and Novgorod ), an enterprise endorsed by Pope Gregory IX, can also be considered as a part of the Northern Crusades.

In February 1454, the Prussian Confederation rose against the Teutonic Order's rule.

The Teutonic Order's castle at Marienburg

On 15 July, at the Battle of Grunwald ( also known as Battle of Tannenberg ) after one of the largest and most ferocious battles of the Middle Ages, the allies won a victory so overwhelming that the Teutonic Order's army was virtually annihilated, with most of its key commanders killed in combat, including Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen and Grand Marshal Friedrich von Wallenrode.

Most of the Teutonic Order's territory, however, including towns which had surrendered, remained intact.

In 1422, Władysław fought another war, known as the Gollub War, against the Teutonic Order, defeating them in under two months before the Order's imperial reinforcements had time to arrive.

The fortress Malbork Castle | Ordensburg Marienburg, founded in 1274, the world ’ s largest brick castle and the Teutonic Knights | Teutonic Order's headquarters on the River Nogat.

From the 14th century, in old texts ( until the 16th / 17th c .) and in Latin, the terms Prut ( h ) enia and Prut ( h ) enic refer not only to the original settlement area of the extinct Old Prussians ( Prusowie, see: Prussia ) along the Baltic Coast east of the Vistula River, but also to the adjacent lands of the former Samboride dukes of Pomerelia, which the Teutonic Knights had acquired from Poland in the 1343 Treaty of Kalisz and added to their Order's State.

During the Thirteen Years ' War (" War of the Cities "), in February 1454, the Confederation, led by the citizens of Gdańsk, Elbląg, and Toruń, as well as gentry from Chełmno Land sent a delegation with Johannes von Baysen to ask the Polish king for support against the Teutonic Order's rule and for incorporation of Prussia into the Polish kingdom.

The eastern part of Prussia remained under the rule of the Teutonic Knights and its successors as a fief of Poland, becoming the Ducal Prussia in 1525 when the Order's last Grand Master Albert von Hohenzollern adopted Lutheranism and secularized the land as its hereditary ruler.

The combination of taxation by the nobility, the furor of the Protestant Reformation, and the abrupt secularization of the Teutonic Order's remaining Prussian lands exacerbated peasant unrest.

They continued, however, to function in all respects ( rule, clothing and policy ) as an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order, headed by their own Master ( himself de jure subject to the Teutonic Order's Grand Master ).

In 1336, the defenders of Pilėnai in Lithuania set their castle on fire and committed mass suicide in order to make the attacking Teutonic Order's victory a costly one.

With the secularization of the Teutonic Order's Prussian territories in 1525, Bartenstein became part of the Duchy of Prussia.

Ulrich and his elder brother Konrad von Jungingen, as younger sons excluded from succession, took the vow of the Teutonic Knights and moved to the Order's State in Prussia.

The settlement was founded by Teutonic Order's Otto von Luttenberg and was known under following names Nuwenmarkt, Novum Forum, Nowy Targ.

The Diocese of Warmia lost the two thirds of its diocese within Teutonic Prussia after 1525 when the Order's Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach converted the monastic state into Ducal Prussia, himself ruling as duke.

Kneiphof became part of the Duchy of Prussia after the Teutonic Order's Prussian branch was secularized in 1525.

Most of the Teutonic army, under the command of Fritz Raweneck and Kaspar Nostyc, were mercenary soldiers gathered from the nearby castles Mewe ( Gniew ), Stargard ( Starogard Gdański ), Nowe, Skarszewy and Kiszewy.

* 1410 – Polish – Lithuanian – Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald – the allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.

In October, the Khwarazmians, along with the Egyptian army under the command of Baibars, were met by the Frankish army, led by Philip of Montfort, Walter of Brienne, and the masters of the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights, along with al-Mansur and Dawud.

* 1454 – In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years ' War.

After the Polish army moved out of Warmia, the new Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Heinrich von Plauen the Elder, accused the bishop of treachery and reconquered the region.

In 1462, during the Thirteen Years ' War, the Polish army under Piotr Dunin defeated the Teutonic Knights there ( see Battle of Świecino, also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec ).

* September 18 – Battle of Chojnice: The Polish army is defeated by a smaller but more professional Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years ' War.

In the summer of 569, the Longobards ( from which the name of the Italian region Lombardy derives ), a Teutonic tribe conquered Milan, overpowering the small Byzantine army left for its defence.

When the war resumed in June 1410, Władysław advanced into the Teutonic heartland at the head of an army of about 20, 000 mounted nobles, 15, 000 armed commoners, and 2, 000 professional cavalry mainly hired from Bohemia.

Frederick's own army and the Teutonic Knights supported him, but Patriarch Gerald of Lausanne ( and the clergy ) followed the hostile papal line.

In 1917, while still in distribution, the Warners had secured the rights for War Brides, a film that featured Alla Nazimova as " a woman who kills herself rather than breed children for an unidentified country whose army looks suspiciously Teutonic.

28. 09. 1466 – Teutonic Order has to surrender Konitz to the Polish army, after three month siege

A mixed Papal army consisting mainly of Hungarian, Polish, Bohemian ( whose combined armies numbered 15, 000 ) and Wallachian ( 7, 000 ) forces, with smaller detachments of Czechs, Papal knights, Teutonic Knights, Bosnians, Croatians, Bulgarians, Lithuanians, Serbs and Ruthenians ( Ukrainians )

A contingent of Teutonic Knights of indeterminate number is traditionally believed to have joined the allied army.

Henry divided his forces into four sections: the Bavarian miners led by Boleslav of Moravia ; the conscripts from Greater Poland along with some Cracovians led by Sulisław ; the brother of the killed palatine of Kraków ; the army of Opole under Mieszko, possibly with some Teutonic Knights ; and, under Henry's personal command, the Silesians, Moravians, Templars and Hospitallers.

In August 1946, 20 months after being removed from the Tannenberg Memorial, Hindenburg and his wife were finally laid to rest by the American army at St. Elizabeth's, the church of his Teutonic ancestors in Marburg, where they remain today.

An invading army of Teutonic Knights conquered the island in 1398, destroying Visby and driving the Victual Brothers from Gotland.

* In the Russo-Japanese anime First Squad, Ahnenerbe is the Nazi occult organization who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century Order of the Sacred Cross ( i. e. the Teutonic Knights ) and enlist them in the Nazi cause.

On 15 July 1410 a united army of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, with additional mercenary troops from Bohemia, defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald ( or First Battle of Tannenberg ).

The crusaders, led not by Frederick but by his representatives Richard Filangieri, Henry IV, Duke of Limburg, and Hermann of Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, arrived in the east late in 1227, and while waiting for the emperor they set about refortifying Sidon, where they built the sea castle, and Montfort, which later became the headquarters of the Teutonic Knights.

* Teutonic Knights, established about 1190, and ruled the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia until 1525

In German, the river has been called die Memel at least since about 1250, when Teutonic Knights erected Memelburg castle and the town of Memel at the mouth of the Curonian Lagoon, baptizing it after the indigenous name of the river, Memel.

Chronicles and historical documents of the 13th through 16th centuries contain the first sources about songs relating the heroics of those fallen in battle against the Teutonic Knights.

His last stay was the longest of all and lasted the whole summer while he lived in the king's castle in Konin waiting for the news about next Polish retaliatory sally against Teutonic Knights.

A Polish-Lithuanian union and military alliance had come about as a mutual response to a common threat posed by the Teutonic Order.

Hiel's efforts to counteract Walloon influences and bring about a rapprochement between the Netherlanders in the north and the Teutonic racial sympathizers across the Rhine made him very popular with both.

The first four scenarios are about the struggles of the Teutonic Order and the knights ' eventual downfall.

It is known about his travels to the Teutonic Knights in 1379 just a year prior to the controversial Treaty of Dovydiškės.

Weinheim's town museum occupies what used to be the headquarters of the Teutonic Order in the town and holds exhibits about Weinheim and its surroundings: archaeology from the prehistoric through to the Merovingian dynasty, the highlight of which is the so-called " Nächstenbacher Bronze-find " of 76 objects from the late Bronze Age ; displays documenting the Medieval and modern social history of the town and works from contemporary artists.

* The Truth about Teutonic Magic, 1991 ISBN 0-87542-779-0

After the battle, the Polish and Lithuanian forces delayed their attack on the Teutonic capital in Marienburg ( Malbork ) by staying on the battlefield for three days and then marching an average of only about per day.