How the Teutonic Order Conquered Prussia - Military Orders DOCUMENTARY

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Even more of an accomplishment is how Prussia flipped from extreme Catholic to radical Lutheran.

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like trading gold for copper

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Just like Martin Luther😂

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@Highestintheroom12 from praying to Mary to God.

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​@Highestintheroom12 what?

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I wouldn't call it an "accomplishment".

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Amazing work as always. I hope your team enjoys its break over Christmas they deserve it

[@orichalcu86730]

the rise and fall of the teutonic order is always a fascinating topic

[@WrinkledPaper674]

If I had a nickel for every time a bunch of crusaders established a country that would eventually become really important in the future, I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s strange that it happened twice

[@leonkautz8151]

Wait, which was the other? The Kingdom of Jerusalem fell, afterall. The most important it got was all the genociding it did before being reconquered.

[@WrinkledPaper674]

@leonkautz8151 bruh, I was talking about Portugal and Prussia, but I forgot about the crusader states. my bad

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​@WrinkledPaper674 To be fair, I think nearly all of the larger Crusading forces had significant impacts on socio-political borders. Between Prussia, the Levant, Anatolia, Lisbon and the Occitan speaking lands, they changed a lot of them. I'd actually think Portugal would be a more muted example as I thought it was mostly the native Orders or chapters that had the most decisive impact given that when the foreign ("Frankish") Crusaders started looting and pillaging on their own the Iberians promptly dissuaded them

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Reconquesta, that's why Portugal is so significant ​@@kongming66

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​@WrinkledPaper674 Portugal wasn't created by crusaders, it was just aided by them in the reconquista

[@soumyadiptamajumder8795]

After Poland finally united under Władysław I in 1320, king disputed the Order's action and asked for the papal mediation. In 1321 Pope commanded the Order to return the Pomerelia to Poland, but Order simply ignored the verdict, knowing very well that Pope seems to more sympathetic to them and Poland, still weakened, will not be able to take the disputed land by force. In the early 14th century, Teutonic Order also cooperated with John of Luxembourg, king of Bohemia (known in the West for his death at Crecy, where, then almost completely blind, decided to fight allegedly saying that 'fleeing from the battle is not befitting a monarch'). John laid a claim for the Polish crown (or at least the Greater Poland and Pomerania) as he was an indirect successor or Przemysł II and Wacław II, short-term kings of Poland (Wacław III was not officially crowned). Knowing that Władysław I wants to recreate Poland in its pre-1138 boredrs and unite all the Polish lands, he knew that he has the chance to keep the Greater Poland and Pomerania only through open conflict. Thus, he decided to seek Order's help and supported it in their war with Lithuania that, in turn, was backed by Poland. This resulted in the war of 1329-1331 that ended in a stalemate. This is important event as it clearly shows that at this moment, Teutonic Order evidently considered itself a political power influencing the balance of power in the region. Polish rulers also lacked political presence and acumen to present their situation to Holy Roman Emperor or the Pope, making it easier for the Order to portray the conflict in a biased way, earning the political support of the highest European authorities, what made it simpler for the Teutonic knights to earn favourable verdicts during the mediation in late 13th and early 14th century. The reign of Kazimierz III, son of Władysław I changed this situation, as the new king turned to be a very good diplomat and politician. In 1335 he made an agreement with John of Luxembourg, giving him Silesia in exchange for a substantial sum of money and formal abandonment of any pretenses to Polish land what also ended the alliance between Order and John against Poland. Stronger, unified Poland was harder to invade, so the Order decided to focus on the Lithuanian lands. The period of greatest tensions between Poland, Lithuania and Teutonic Order came in the late 14th century and early 15th century. Teutonic Order was involved in Lithuanian politics, especially in the conflict between Great Duke Jogaila and his cousin Vytautas, where it supported the latter, especially after the 1386, when Jogaila was crowned as king of Poland and designated his brother Skirgaila to be his regent in Lithuania. Negotiations between Jogaila and Vytautas and the presence of Svitrigaila that was both opposed to Poland and interested in the position of the ruler of Lithuania caused Vytautas to abandon Teutonic Order and tighten his relations with Poland. This, in turn caused Teutonic Order to support Svitrigaila, who however defeated. This shows that Teutonic Order was interested in both preventing the emergence of strong, unified powers in Central Europe and installing or supporting people sympathetic to their cause at the head of neighbouring polities. The next large conflict between Poland and Teutonic Order was again caused by the expansionist policies of the latter. Attempt to subjugate Samogitia, dividing their possessions in Prussia and Livonia met with local resistance supported by the Great Duke of Lithuania. Unable to dismantle or weaken the Polish-Lithuanian relationship, Order decided to attack the land of Dobrzyń and the attack on Greater Poland by Ulrich von der Osten, ruler of Driesen (now Drezdenko, Poland), an ally and later a vassal of the Order preceded the declaration of war by the Order and quick invasion of the Polish lands immediately bordering with the lands of the Order. It was possible that Grandmaster counted on establishing their presence in the invaded land and then call for negotiations, counting on the Polish and Lithuanian inability or reluctance to perform quick counterattack, but this was a mistake. The area-wide uprising in Samogitia backed by Lithuania drove all Teutonic forces from this realm and the joint strike against the Teutonic heartland resulted in the decisive Polish-Lithuanian victory at Tannenberg (Grunwald) and Koronowo in 1410 broke the Order power. The First Treaty of Thorn signed in 1411 marked the beginning of Order's decline. Polish-Lithuanian victory also prompted Sigismund of Luxembourg, king of Germany and later Holy Roman Emperor to recognize Jogaila as a Christian ruler and break his own alliance with the Order in 1412. The issue of the conflict has been brought up on the Council of Constance (famous for the execution of Jan Hus that precipitated Hussite Wars). Johann Falkenberg, Dominican monk and representative of the Order presented their stance in a brochure Tractatus doctoris cuiusdam de Prutenis contra Polonos et paganos de potestate papae et imperatoris respectu infidelium where he claimed that pagans can be killed only because they are pagans, and Poles should be exterminated and their land confiscated because they support pagans and thus are traitors of the Catholic faith and enemies of the Church (what summarized the political stance of the Order whenever the issue of the conflict between Order and Poland or other Christian nation came up and earlier it was often taken at a face value or was not challenged to a significant degree by other powers). Polish representatives exposed Falkenberg's allegations as false, eventually causing Pope Martin V to condemn it (although the official bull was issued only six years later). Two decades later, a Prussian burghers established Prussian Union, and organization reprsenting the interests of the Prussian cities and protect them from the abuse of power exercised by the Order. The latter attempted to limit its power up to and including asking Holy Roman Emperor for the formal delegalization of the Union, but were declined, what shows that they have already fallen from the Imperial favour. In 1454 the Prussian cities rebelled against the Order, asking Polish king, Kazimierz IV for support. The latter officially incorporated Prussia to Poland, what was approved by all Prussian cities save for Marienburg, Konitz and Stuhm. Teutonic Order responded by attempting to pacify the rebellion, what prompted Poland to invade, starting the Thirteen Years War that ended with Order losing large part of its territory, including Pomerelia, Chełmno and Michałów Land, Upper Vistula and Warmia. The remaing parts of the Order land became a vassal state of Poland. Even though the subsequent Grandmasters attempted to shake the Polish domination, they were unable to do so, as the Order was only a shadow of its former self. The last Grandmaster, Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach, adopted Lutheranism and transformed the Teutonic State into secular Ducal Prussia (thus creating the first Lutheran state in history) and paid homage to the Polish king, effectively ending the Teutonic military presence in Baltic area. So to sum it up, the Teutonic Order arrived in Prussia with a plan to establish an independent state, using their diplomatic support of the German nobility, Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope. The war against Prussians was eventually considered a Crusade, what attracted many Western knight who helped the Teutonic Order in their mission of subjugating Prussian territory. But the Teutonic idea o Christianization of the pagan areas, although honest, was a mean to an end that was the formation of an independent monastic state. When this goal was achieved, Teutonic Order started to behave like any other state, making allies and enemies in the attempts to solidify their holdings, secure borders and expand into the neighbouring territory, what sooner or later put them at odds with other powers in the region, namely Poland, Lithuania and the archbishopric of Riga. Relative military and political weakness of these polities made it easier to use military power against them with little risk. But as soon as the Poland and Lithuania unified and began to cooperate, also gaining political influence, it was harder for the Order to both fight them effectively and portray their expansion as crusading effort, as both countries were established as Christian powers. The great war of 1409-1411 and Thirteen Years War were regular political and territorial conflicts, as any other war in Europe at that time. Dollinger, P., The German Hansa, Stanford University Press, 1970. Jähnig, B., Vorträge und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Preußenlandes und des Deutschen Ordens im Mittelalter [Lectures and research concerning history of the Prussian lands and the Teutonic Order in the Middle Ages], Copernicus Association of History and National Studies of Western Prussia, Münster 2011. Morton, N., The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2009. Selart, A., Livonia, Rus' and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century. Brill, Leiden 2015.

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I'm so deep into this channel that this got recommended to me in 5 mins 😂

[@piotrwojdelko1150]

you can't imagine how different history can be when the opposite sides describe a battle .It can be like a different battle ,it depends on the point of view

[@benimpanu4405]

​@@piotrwojdelko1150you have to stop with the anti-German propaganda, every time the Germans do something they are always portrayed badly, but it is the most developed and civilized West in history, its jealous neighbors should be ashamed, so stop your ridiculous propaganda and move on ... France and the English did worse, the Poles were also monstrous at that time but you spend your time watching the wrongs of the Germans, you are jealous 😂😂😂

[@benimpanu4405]

​@piotrwojdelko1150 let's also talk about the crimes and lies and propaganda of the Poles? do you agree?

[@hose6282]

Teutonic Order was the most drippiest for sure.

[@forgott_8182]

the Hospitallers were the best, they were true defenders of Christianity like in Rhodes or Malta, meanwhile the Teutons were genocidal maniacs who after slaughter of Prussians started to fight with christian Poland and Novgorod and partly christian Lithuania

[@leonkautz8151]

​@@forgott_8182 True, but to be fair hose was solely commending their drip, not their actions

[@walkerofthewasteland]

Germans always have the best drip

[@benimpanu4405]

​@forgott_8182 you have to stop with the anti-German propaganda, every time the Germans do something they are always portrayed badly, but it is the most developed and civilized West in history, its jealous neighbors should be ashamed, so stop your ridiculous propaganda and move on ... France and the English did worse, the Poles were also monstrous at that time but you spend your time watching the wrongs of the Germans, you are jealous 😂😂😂

[@benimpanu4405]

​@leonkautz8151 the best people in the history of the west 🎉🎉🎉Germans are really special !

[@SplendidFactor]

Ah yes, the Teutonic Knights, also known as the Knights of Drip.

[@NoVisionGuy]

their uniforms were hard af

[@drschuess1624]

Driptonic Knights

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@@KingsandGeneralsmerry Christmas and happy new year 🎄

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Merry Christmas!

[@Sirmeys_king_butterlord]

As a teutonic lover this made my day perfect to actually see anybody make content about them and it being good aswel

[@joaopedrogameiro1408]

As an admitted law student I really appreciated the secular and religious laws in this video on how the order was able to legally secure their land. That grandmaster was a smart dude 🫡

[@joemammon6149]

the devil is in the details.

[@kimberlysteller2556]

Define legally. And whom can impart this definition onto someone claiming to be Christian yet use the term legal to justify killing others . Well I suppose our American gov't does the same using the term terrorist to justify any means to reach secret goals also. Now any American whom refuses subjugation can be "legally" disposed of also. Guess people never change.

[@ronjohnson6916]

Fascinating stuff on the political side. You can see how that initial experience in Hungary shaped subsequent actions.

[@javiersaugar376]

The urge to boot up the Teutonic Campaign in Medieval II grows

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Great campaign

[@aselliofacchio]

Medieval 2 vanilla is unplayable. It's all so wrong and nonsensical, like gothic knights being useless and peasant archers being able to destroy the heaviest french knights with a few volleys.

[@Bohemondvilhaduan]

There is a cool mod called bastle for the baltics. Best teutonic campaign imo.

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Love the video who ever see this have a merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas.

[@normtrooper4392]

Certainly an underrepresented part of crusade history.

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Can we get a full length Teutonic order video? This topic isn’t covered nearly as much . ❤ love the channel

[@andalusianstockmarket6284]

My grandpa was preussian , we were never allowed to look at another omce plate at dinner , we always had to have both hands on the table , we had to be close to the table and sit straight , we had to be there when we started. My grandma was amazing , strict but amazing , couldnt be fooled.

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The OG Christmas Carollers "'Hark, heathen! For 'tis the season to be merry!"

[@vectorstrike]

Hermann von Salza was one of the greatest men from the Middle Ages - critically underrated. He knew the Crusader states won't hold for long and took his order elsewhere (it was briefly headquarted in Venice before going to Hungary). He was a very shrewd man. He took part of the Fifth Crusade and was taken prisoner in Egypt. He also was a central piece of the negotiations for the treat Frederick II made to get Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.

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Still they can't get the map right.

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I came to watch the video after realizing how appealing the Teutonic Knight is in Age of Empires.

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Been waiting for this!

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Amazing work as always! I hope your team enjoys a well-deserved break over Christmas-you’ve truly earned it.

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If there is one order of knights that makes me think about Christmas, it's Teutonic Order. Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

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Amazing video as always

[@egilsbrencis2698]

Nothing about Herkus Mantas, Skomantas, Skirmantas, Nameisis and other Prussians, Sudovians, Lithuanians or Semigalians dukes or leaders; nothing about battle at the Durbe (in present-day Latvia) - largest defeat of the knights in the 13th century, which inspired the Great Prussian Uprising, battle of Lubawa, battle of Krucken and many others great Prussians victories; nothing about Sambia, Nadruvia, Natanga, Bartia and other Prussians lands... Yotvingians, Galindians, Skalvians. "Prussian Crusade without Prussians"

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A perfect Christmas gift thanks guys

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learning so much

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Königsberg is watching

[@nilsmadej9091]

It's Królewiec

[@guyman1570]

​@@nilsmadej9091Old Prussian is a Slavic group different from Polish btw

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@@guyman1570 ok? It's still ours.

[@Alejojojo6]

​@@nilsmadej9091 Its still German since they were the founders and develloppers of it into a city.

[@felixjohnsens3201]

@@guyman1570 No Old Prussian are a Baltic group and have nothing to with Slavic People.

[@raphaellagnado2082]

Oh now you just HAVE to make a video on the Lithuanian Grand Ducate, the last pagan state in Europe!

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We'll get there

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas, guys! PS: Will there be a video on the decline and transformation of the Order in the 15th century and beyond?

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Merry Christmas! There will be more on the topic!

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Thanks!

[@krystianzagorski8505]

War with Teutonic Order is large part of Polish medieval history taught in polish schools, and invitation by Konrad Mazowiecki is considered as one of the most tragic mistakes in whole history of our country.

[@hkl2007]

He invited them becouse he had attacked the Prussians and they responded with invasion, raiding and devestation. It was an more or less an act of desperation, no Teutonic order probably just means Denmark conquers it instead.

[@jaroslawk2010]

The following mistakes were not liquidating Prussia several times, including 1466 and 1525

[@toja8824]

@@hkl2007 The territories of Prussia were dense forests and the tribes waged troublesome guerrilla wars, organized attacks destroying his possessions plundered and avoided general battles, only hiding in the forests and organizing ambushes and it was annoying economically for Mazowieckie who was only prince of one province .

[@toja8824]

@@hkl2007 There was no method for them even when the Prussians were losing it, not much changed. Of course, they paid tribute and even accepted baptism. But as soon as the enemy left their territory, they denied any obligations.

[@toja8824]

@@hkl2007 The only way to solve this problem was to introduce permanent occupation troops in whole are and for Mazowiecki the Teutonic Knights seemed to be the perfect solution, unfortunately he did not foresee that they would build their own ecclesiastical state :)))

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Amazing👍

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Amazing video. Merry Christmas!

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Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍

[@brokenbridge6316]

This video was a very interesting look into the Teutonic Knights. And Order I've heard little about till now. Great video.

[@bremus8740]

thanks for video. I'm into medieval, but i was interested in history of orders lately

[@TheSouth-j7f]

The European map at 3:36 is wrong as Serbia never had coastal territory all the way to the Croatian port city of Split. In fact, to the right of what is today the town of Dubrovnik (back then the Roman Catholic Independent Republic of Ragusa) is Orthodox Montenegro but during this time it was an inland territory without a coastline as the Roman Catholic Venetians had control of most of the coastline.

[@komnina99]

@@TheSouth-j7f You don't know the basics of history. The Serbian principalities and later the Serbian kingdom had a border on the Cetina river for centuries.

[@TheSouth-j7f]

@@komnina99 The Serbian version of events usually has nothing to do with reality.

[@komnina99]

@@TheSouth-j7f Expected, what else can a Croat write. When it is necessary to attach evidence and sources, then it willfully disappears.

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@TheSouth-j7f Expected answer 🤣

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@@komnina99 🚜....

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Thank you so much for this amazing video!

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Great work, keep it up! And Merry Christmas!

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Merry christmas!

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Happy holidays to all you kings and generals out there!

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Its christmas not holiday lol

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Always welcome to see a new video upload from the best military history channel on KZbin! Happy Christmas to all you guys, or whatever may bring you joy this season, and thank you for the peerless content🙏

[@NickAndriadze]

It's crazy how *Prussia,* the undisputed champion of medieval, early modern and even modern Europe, the unificator of all Germany and one of the predominant great powers of the old world ever since its creation, started out as an order of knights who were assigned pagan-controlled territory to subjugate it. Absolutely crazy, the history of Prussia is insanely cool.

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

Prussia undisputed champion of medieval ???

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

Teutonic Knights later lost with Poland and Jagiełło in 1410 and become part of the Commonwealth

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

About 1655, after the Thirty Years War in Europe, which Sweden won, that protestant Sweden invaded Poland; the result of this war was that Prussia gained independent from Poland . This invasion of Sweden kill 40 % population in Poland later 100 year wars non stop and attack many side destroy Poland economy and Prussia start slowly to grow on corpse of Poland and in cooperation with Russia .

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

This Prince in Poland Mazowiecki brought the Teutonic Knights because in Poland there was a division into provinces and there was no centralized authority, it was only divided into duchies. Later Prussia and teuronic knghts lost and paid homage to the King of Poland in medival times .

[@blablabla-jn8wh]

Prussia was like a cancer on the body of Poland that was not cured because Prussia controlled Gdansk founded by Mieszko I and wanted to strangle the economy of Poland. The division of Poland into regions by one king to his sons led to situtation idiott Mazowiecki coming up with the idea of ​​bringing in the Teutonic Knights.

[@Brian-----]

9:00 🙂 “Exemption from tax and tallage, right of soc and sac, tol and team, blodwit and fledwit, pillory and tumbril, infangentheof and outfangentheof, mundbryce, waifs and strays, flotsam and jetsam and ligan"

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Merry Christmas!!

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👍👍👍God Jul og godt nyt år

[@AlexanderRodriguez-dd1eq]

Yessss hope for more Teutonic Order content

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Thank you

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Marry Christmas everyone

[@timewapp1]

This is a great history video congratulations

[@rosswebster7877]

In the 20th century, while the N*zis largely appropriated much of the Teutonic Knights' symbolism and lore, the actual order was heavily suppressed and censored under the Thord Reich. The Order still exists today but operates as a charitable organization. Thanks and Merry Christmas Kings And Generals Crew!

[@MIMALECKIPL]

9:08 - map is wrong. Gdańsk was part of Poland back then, not the empire. It was part of "Senioral Duchy" by the act of succession ordered by Prince Bolesław III.

[@saltedllama2759]

My family lineage traces back to this exact moment in history. They lived in villages in Prussia and were pushed out, south and westward (mostly into Poland), during and following the Teutonic invasion.

[@bigsarge2085]

Fascinating.

[@95DarkFire]

14:05 I am sorry, this makes no sense. The exception does not invalidate the rule. Just because the Knights occasionally worked with pagans doesn't mean that there wasn't an overall homogenous struggle.

[@ASHEN_WITCH_RYMER]

Thank you ❤

[@Pooneil1984]

Nice series

[@thebairdMi]

nice video

[@simenonhonore]

Very interesting, thank you.

[@piotryellow]

Hungarians did a really smart thing in not letting them take a root.

[@thecelebritypath]

01:02 "The Lord will turn the desert into a garden of delight" Do you believe this poetic vision justified the Teutonic Order’s actions, or was it just a powerful narrative for conquest?

[@highlordsilverhand1228]

A Teutonic Knight video ? Merry Christmas to me!

[@ElBandito]

"Vee vill reklaim Jerusalem!" "Wait, zis iz not ze Outremer?"

[@vinayakkothari6162]

The teutons after the subjugation of Prussia primarily campaigned against Russia and Lithuania.

[@prussian_lady]

The teutons mainly mission in northern Europe

[@sphalanz]

step 1 choose a baltic tribe step 2 defeat christian heathens step 3 reform romuva faith step 4 form wendish empire

[@Arv-pz9sy]

When you talk about Old Prussia you need to commemorate most famous pagan Prussian cheef Herkus Mantas or Heinrich Monte(ger.). Who fight against crusaders. This is Epic Story. There is Streets in Lithuania named in honour Herkus Mantas.

[@danieldpa8484]

As a polish guy, whose ancestor was knighted for slaying 3 Teutonic Knights in the battle of Grunwald in 1410, I appreciate the sacrifice of those Germans as their offering was not in vain! Our family did well over the centuries!

[@TahaAlhimyary]

1 is interesting but 3 is too much bro😅

[@danieldpa8484]

@ I was not around to see it, that’s what the family chronicles say. 1410 is so far away, yet so close considering the history of humanity.

[@benimpanu4405]

​@danieldpa8484 Poland was crushed several times by the Germans and you still say that you won in 1410 while forgetting that the Poles abandoned the siege of Malbork because they couldn't win? ok, now let's talk about how prussia and russia tore poland apart! or let's talk about how russia and germany tore poland apart again in 1939!!! Do you still want to brag now?

[@danieldpa8484]

@ won some - lost some … Germany never overcame Poland and with the last war, their expansion east thrown back to where it was in year 1000. Poles were the First Nation from Europe to conquer Moscow… and we stopped the Turks in 1683 and the Soviets in 1920. Our generals contributed to America gaining independence from UK. We also saved UK during the Battle of Britain. And yes, Solidarność movement killed the Soviet empire with moral support by Pope John II. We as a nation have plenty to brag about - however we have no genocides on our list, unlike the Russians, Germans or Brits. So cope harder whoever you are. Poland will be still around long after our neighbours turn into dust.

[@danieldpa8484]

@ and as a matter of fact, no country that bordered Poland in 1989 exists today, they are all gone… Poland will continue to prosper and we just started 30 years ago regaining our potential. Soon, we have the strongest army in the EU, our economy in doing fine and we are far from all the issues everyone else is having the Europe. It’s not perfect but thanks to the last two generations, we are doing fine. Soon, average Polish family will be wealthier than an average British family… what a pleasant outcome for our nation. Thanks to the hard work of each of my compatriots and the guests we host in our beautiful country. Indeed, women can move safely here, unlike in any other city further west.

[@lyonvensa]

No wonder Prussia is called a military with a state considering their origins, other then always looking cool as hell with their black colored insignia

[@fightingfinn1503]

17:04 isnt that a Scottish highland claymore?

[@ichemaru]

Can you do more about the Northen Crusades

[@andresgil1449]

Does that mean that Technically Poland didn’t have a coast line! And was given a coast line at the expense of Germany?

[@ottosaxo]

"Die kalte Heimat" is what East Prussians called their home country in a poetic way. Many people have heard and repeated it as a household word, but don't know its origin.

[@natheriver8910]

Very fascinant

[@uria3679]

Please do a video on Götz’s battle with the Ottomans

[@akbarrosyid787]

The stories of Teutonic Order that helped created Prussia in baltic state and then later on consolidated as Germany. I enjoyed this story as a child back then playing German Campaign on Empire Earth II. Such a cool origins of a nation.

[@rudolfkraffzick642]

The true origin of Germany is the East Franconian Empire founded in 843. In 1871 the 2nd Empire emerged, meant by Bismarck as an enlarged Prussia. But the Deutsches Reich became the country of the modern German Nation.

[@ottosaxo]

It wasn't really that simple. There was a deep gap between the story in this video and the baroque state of "Prussia", that was actually Brandenburg. That gap was filled i.e. with the Thirty-Years-War which made Brandenburg a defenseless country without protection and ruined it completely. What was later called "Prussian militarism" was a consequence which arised from that hard lesson.

[@-RONNIE]

The Teutonic Knight are my favorite then I would say the Livonian Order but they combined together ⚔️

[@TheWolverine01]

Merry Christmas to anyone seeing this comment 🎄

[@YuleStanleyJuster]

Lithuanian-rus wars next please

[@fetorRW]

What the Holy Roman Empire is doing in Gdansk Pomerania in the first half of the XIII c.? Before the Teutonic conquest of 1308-1309 this part of Pomerania was ruled alternately by the local Pomeranian dynasties or Polish kings.

[@soumyadiptamajumder8795]

Of the three great military orders (the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights), it's difficult to settle on an overall winner in terms of importance. The Temple loses out by having a lifespan some seven centuries shorter than the others. Also, importance is quite difficult to quantify. It is easier, however, to discuss what sort of importance they had across the time period. Until the mid-thirteenth century, the Templars and Hospitallers were both noticeable political and military powers. The Temple was the oldest military order, founded in the early twelfth century. The Hospitallers were older, dating from the late eleventh century, but they didn't militarise until later. Both orders played a major role in the defence of the crusader states and both had lands and brethren across Europe. As the Order's European estates annually sent money to the Holy Land to support their brethren there, the Templars became adept at transporting goods and cash abroad. This led to them providing banking services for European nobles and monarchs. The Hospitallers did the same, eventually, but it was only after the arrest of the Templars in 1307 that this became a more important role for the Hospital. As significant landowners in Europe, the military orders, like most religious orders, began to be relied upon by secular lords and kings. In England and Ireland, the Templars were initially the main military order to act as royal servants, undertaking financial and diplomatic work for the kings of England. For example, the master of the Irish Templars was a regular auditor of royal accounts, whilst in 1234, Templars led negotiations between royal forces and the rebel Richard Marshal, earl of Pembroke. However, by the late-thirteenth century, this position had been taken by the Hospitallers, who by the end of the medieval period were regular royal councillors. The Prior of Ireland, the Order's master in Ireland, served in various high offices, including chancellor and justiciar, the two chief administrators of English Ireland. One Hospitaller, Stephen de Fulbourn, was treasurer of Ireland in 1274 and justiciar from 1281-8. The Prior of England, master of the Hospitallers in England, Wales, and Scotland, became the premier baron in the English parliament, making him the most senior lay lord below an earl. He could also be a close personal councillor. Prior Botyll was among the first councillors allowed to see Henry VI after he recovered from his first bout of madness. Both orders had a pan-European appeal. The Templars and Hospitallers had lands in Germany, France, Italy, Iberia, the British Isles, and the Holy Land, and brethren from the same. In contrast, the Teutonic Knights were rather minor to start with. This order was only founded in the 1190s, and so at first lagged behind the more senior Hospital and Temple. The Teutonic Order, as its name suggests, was also more limited in scope, recruiting donations and membership mostly in 'German' lands. The Order established itself across Palestine, the Low Countries, and what is now Germany and Austria, and held some land in Sweden. However, regions like Iberia, France, and the British Isles did not have Teutonic outposts and seem to have had little contact with the Order (though the Order did trade with these countries and host crusaders from them). It is only when the Teutonic Knights began to conquer territory in the Baltic in the thirteenth century that they seem to become a real force. This made them one of the important orders, as no other military order had established its own independent state. After the Hospitallers conquered Rhodes in around 1310 they joined the Teutonic Knights as one of the two most militarily and politically important military orders. They were the only orders to maintain their own independent states, the Hospital in Rhodes, the Teutonic Knights in the Baltic. In the Mediterranean the Hospitallers always remained a key feature in crusade plans. Their conquest of Rhodes from 1309-10 was itself a papally-approved crusade, with the aim that the island would form a bridgehead for a second expedition to retake to the Holy Land. Meanwhile, in the Baltic the Teutonic Knights continued to grow in power. A system of summer raids called reisen became what can be almost described as a medieval tourist attraction. Crusaders would visit from all over Europe to feast with the Knights, participate in tournaments, receive prizes for valour, and fight the pagan Lithuanians. Famous participants include the Douglas earls of Scotland, Henry IV of England, and Jean le Maingre, marshal of France. However, after the Order's defeat by Polish-Lithuanian forces at Tannenburg in 1410, participants for the reisen dropped off sharply, with the last foreign visitors, a group of Burgundian knights, arriving in 1413. The Lithuanians had long since converted to Christianity and with their alliance and monarchical union with Poland, this could no longer be ignored or considered insincere. The Teutonic Knights had lost their prime purpose of holy war. Attempts were made to recover this by relocating to Translyvania to fight the Turks, something the Order declined (the offer was conditional on giving up Prussia), or by going to war with the schismatic Russians. This second path was fatal, and eventually brought about the end of the Ordensstaat.

[@metal_fusion]

The original Black Templars

[@tomaszmazurek64]

A small nitpick, that while marking Warsaw on the map is probably helpful for modern viewers, Warsaw as a city was only founded around 1310. In fact it was founded in a cooperation between the princes of Mazovia, the Hansa and the Teutornic Order (it's an interesting story in itself), so marking it on a map before the Order even reached Poland is incorrect. There was some small settlement called Warsaw in this place since very roughly 1240 (historians don't agree since when exactly and what was it's character), but that's still 20 years later and it wouldn't have been an important enough spot to be marked on maps of that period.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

8:24 what’s the name of the sword 🗡 with the 2 spikes on each side of the blade?

[@Froslev45]

I think its just a regular Zweihander/ greatsword with parrying hooks on it

[@albatros33]

Incidentally, when German knights en- countered Seljuq-Turkish warriors during the Crusades in Anatolia, apparently the Turks did more justice to this shared martial stereotype than did the Germans: upon their return home, some German knights forged genealogical legends asserting common Turkish-German origins, so impressed had they been by the fighting spirit and martial prowess of the Turkish ghāzīs.

[@Alejojojo6]

😂😂 Nationalistic Turkish propaganda nonsense.

[@unit7472]

The clock of the Great Trial breathes its first

[@uja11]

Great trial?

[@grimkupid8478]

You just don't hear about Prussian uprisings like you used too....different times I guess.

[@calidone7661]

So is it safe to say military culture of later Prussia roots in Teutonic Order?

[@ottosaxo]

It's not. Its poverty and the agony of the Thirty-Years-War made Brandenburg/Prussia a country that afterwards sought refuge in an oversized military.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

1:24 I believe paganism didn’t go away fully but many practiced the faiths in secret.

[@stefansmiljanic1697]

I don't know about the catholics but orthodox Christians which converted apparently really did so, except the traditions that pagans held under the condition that they weren't heretical were changed to fit Christian beliefs such as "slava" in my country serbia who's pagans practiced god patreonship and held a yearly feast to honour them, these practices were changed such to make them Christian, so people began taking patron saints instead of patron gods and instead of sacrifices etc... they fasted on fasting days, used a feast candle to say so which you can buy at the church etc... Although to my knowledge this is only done in serbia montenegro, serbian parts of bosnia and croatia and Macedonia, but you get the idea