Ulrich von Jungingen
| Ulrich von Türingen | |
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| Hochmeister | |
17th century depiction by Christoph Hartknoch
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| Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights | |
| Reign | 1407-1410 |
| Predecessor | Konrad von Jungingen |
| Successor | Heinrich von Plauen |
| Born |
8 January 1360 Hohenfels |
| Died | 15 July 1410 (aged 50) Grunwald, State of the Teutonic Order |
| Burial | Chapel of St. Anne, Malbork Castle |
| House | House of Jungingen |
Ulrich von Jungingen (8 January 1360 – 15 July 1410) was the 26th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, serving from 1407 to 1410. His policy of confrontation with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland would spark the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War and lead to disaster for his Order, and his own death, at the Battle of Grunwald.
A scion of the Swabian noble house of Jungingen, he was probably born at Hohenfels Castle near , as the ancestral seat at Jungingen had been devastated in 1311. 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. Ulrich resided in Schlochau (Człuchów) and was Komtur of Balga (1396–1404). His career profited from the patronage of his elder brother Konrad, who was elected Grand Master in 1393. After the Knights had expelled the Victual Brothers from Gotland in 1398, Ulrich distinguished himself in the negotiations for the possession of the island with Queen Margaret I of Denmark, as well as on diplomatic missions to Poland and to Lithuania in connection with the conclusion of the 1398 Treaty of Salynas concerning the Duchy of Samogitia.
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