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		Estonia  Latvia  Lithuania  Russia  Sweden  Poland

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.