July 15, 2006

Teutonic Knights Defeated at Battle of Grunwald

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The Teutonic Order, a German military religious order founded during the 3rd Crusade, sought to expand Christendom through missions and conquest, and built numerous towns which it then governed. After being defeated by the Poles and Lithuanians at the Battle of Grunwald, its strength waned, and today it survives as a charitable clerical organization. Ulrich von Jungingen, Grand Master of the order at the time of the Battle of Grunwald, was killed during the fighting; who succeeded him?
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