2/19/2023 0 Comments Medieval 2 teutonic orderFeared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years.This major new book surveys the gripping history of the knights and their Order and relates their rise to power their struggles against Prussian pagans the series of wars against Poland and Lithuania the clash with Alexander Nevsky's Russia and the gradual stagnation of the order in the fourteenth century. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war.
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