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Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights

State of the Teutonic Order
Staat des Deutschen Ordens  (German)
Civitas Ordinis Theutonici  (Latin)
Fief of the Kingdom of Poland
(1466–1525)
1230–1525
Flag Coat of arms
The State of the Teutonic Order in 1400.
Capital Marienburg
(1308–1454)
Königsberg
(1454–1525)
Languages Low German, Latin, Baltic
Religion Roman Catholic
Government Theocratic Order
Grand Master
 •  1230–1239 Hermann (first)
 •  1510–1525 Albert (last)
Legislature Estates
Historical era Middle Ages
 •  Treaty of Kruschwitz 16 May 1230
 •  Polish–Teutonic War 1326–1332
 •  Battle of Grunwald 15 July 1410
 •  Polish–Teutonic War 1519–1521
 •  Treaty of Kraków 8 April 1525
 •  Prussian Homage 10 April 1525
Currency Mark
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Old Prussians
Duchy of Prussia
Royal Prussia
Today part of
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History of Brandenburg and Prussia
Northern March
pre–12th century
Old Prussians
pre–13th century
Margraviate of Brandenburg
1157–1618 (1806)
Teutonic Order
1224–1525
Duchy of Prussia
1525–1618
Royal (Polish) Prussia
1466–1772
Brandenburg-Prussia
1618–1701
Kingdom in Prussia
1701–1772
Kingdom of Prussia
1772–1918
Free State of Prussia
1918–1947
Klaipėda Region
(Lithuania)
1920–1939 / 1945–present
Brandenburg
(Germany)
1947–1952 / 1990–present
Recovered Territories
(Poland)
1918/1945–present
Kaliningrad Oblast
(Russia)
1945–present

The State of the Teutonic Order (German: Staat des Deutschen Ordens; Latin: Civitas Ordinis Theutonici), also called Deutschordensstaat (pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃ ɔɐdənsˌʃtaːt]) or Ordensstaat (pronounced [ˈɔɐdənsˌʃtaːt]) in German, was a crusader state formed by the Teutonic Knights or Teutonic Order during the 13th century Northern Crusades along the Baltic Sea. The state was based in Prussia after the Order's conquest of the Pagan Old Prussians which began in 1230. It expanded to include at various times Courland, Gotland, Livonia, Neumark, Pomerelia and Samogitia. Its territory was in the modern countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia. Most of the territory was conquered by military orders, after which German colonization occurred to varying effect.

The Livonian Brothers of the Sword controlling Terra Mariana were incorporated into the Teutonic Order as its autonomous branch Livonian Order in 1237. In 1346, the Duchy of Estonia was sold by the King of Denmark for 19,000 Köln marks to the Teutonic Order. The shift of sovereignty from Denmark to the Teutonic Order took place on 1 November 1346.


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