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Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, having historically served as a crusading military order for supporting Catholic rule in the Holy Land and the Northern Crusades during the Middle Ages, as well as supplying military protection for Catholics in Eastern Europe.
The meaning of TEUTONIC is of, relating to, or characteristic of the Teutons. How to use Teutonic in a sentence.
Teutonic Order, religious order that played a major role in eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages and that underwent various changes in organization and residence from its founding in 1189/90 to the present.
A medieval Teutonic Knight was a member of the Catholic military Deutscher Orden or Teutonic Order, officially founded in March 1198 CE.
Initially established as hospital brotherhood near the seaport Acre in the Holy Land in the year 1190, during the third crusade, the Teutonic Order was transformed into both a chivalric and clerical Order of Knights in 1198 and has existed as such for more than 800 years.
Born out of the conflict of the Third Crusade, the Teutonic Knights rose primarily from modest beginnings as a hospital brotherhood in the Holy Land into a military religious order that ruled its own church-run state in Eastern Europe.
The word “Teutonic” has evolved over the centuries from the name of a specific Germanic tribe to denote German culture and its chivalric values.
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem (commonly known as the Teutonic Order) is a military order that was founded in the Holy Land during the Crusades.
TEUTONIC definition: of or relating to the ancient Teutons. See examples of Teutonic used in a sentence.
Last video we delved into the prehistory of Prussia in which the Deutschritter Orden, or Teutonic Order, colonized pre-Hohenzollern Prussia. Around 1192 this new order made its appearance in the ...