Teutonic Knight - 03
by AM FineArtPrints
Title
Teutonic Knight - 03
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AM FineArtPrints
Medium
Painting - Digital Painting
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Teutonic Knight - 01 by Andrea Mazzocchetti
The portrait of an ancient Teutonic knight, belonging to the order of the Teutonic knights, a monastic-military order, passed to history for the Crusades carried out in Northern Europe. The Teutonic Order (Ordo domus Sanctae Mariae Teutonicorum) originated from the hospice founded (1190) in St. John of Acre by citizens of Lübeck and Bremen, and was then transformed into a chivalric order on the model of the Templars and the Gerosolimitani, approved in 1199 by Innocent III. It was divided into four categories: knights, priests, sergeants and confreres. The fighters were the knights, who wore a white cloak with a cross, and the sergeants, with a dark cloak. Ruled by a general chapter, led by the grand master, the Order was divided into regions, provinces and houses. He bought land in Palestine, Greece, southern Italy and especially in Germany, but he directed his activity towards the eastern borders of Christian Europe: the great master Hermann von Salza (1211-1239) engaged in the fight against the Cumans of Transylvania (1211 -25), then against the Baltic pagan populations of Prussia. With the golden bubble issued by the Emperor Frederick II (1226), the Order was invested with the Prussian lands, conquered between 1230 and 1280
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