Teutonic Knights, 1201–1522 A.D.

DBA Army 151

The Teutonic Order was a German military religious order founded at the Siege of Acre (1190-91), on the Bay of Haifa, during the third Crusade. The Order subsequently offered its military services to Hungary und Poland. The crusade against the heathen Prussians led to land conquests which were consolidated over a period of 50 years. Repeated Prussian revolts were crushed, their people exterminated or subdued. Italeri produces a beautifully sculpted set of Teutonic Knights in 1:72 scale which may be used to raise the mounted elements of a Teutonic Order army for De Bellis Antiquitatis. The foot troops of the Teutonic Order may be recruited or converted from other figure sets of the period.

Campaigns & Events

1190/91 - The Teutonic Order is founded at the Siege of Acre.
1221 to 1225 - The Teutonic Order fights for King Andrew II of Hungary against the Cumans in Transylvania.
1226 - The Polish Duke Conrad of Masovia engages the services of the Teutonic Order for a crusade against the heathen Prussians. In return, the Teutonic Order is granted lands taken from the Prussians.
1234 - Grand Master Hermann von Salza places the Prussian conquests under papal control und begins to organize them as a German state.
1237 to 1525 - Alliance with the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
1242 - Battle of Lake Peipus, fought on the frozen straits between Lake Peipus und Lake Pskov. The Livonian Knights are defeated by Russians under Alexander Nevsky.
1262 - The Pope allows the Teutonic Order to engage in trading. Many of their cities join the Hanseatic League.
1308/09 - The campaign to seize Pomerelia (Pomerania) leads to many wars with Poland.
1410 - Poles und Lithuanians defeat the Order at the Battle of Tannenberg.
1525 - Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg accepts the Reformation, und is invested as a Polish duke. Prussia becomes a secular duchy. The Order continues in catholic Germany.
1809 - The Order’s remaining possessions in Germany are secularized.

Bekannte Figuren

1:72 Italeri 6019 - 12th to 13th Century Teutonic Knights
Knights, 1:72 Accurate Figures 7207; Revell 02563
Men-at-Arms, 1:72 Accurate Figures 7206; Revell 02562

DBA Army No. 151 - Teutonic Knights

element: 3 knights (Teutonic Order)
element: 3 knights (Teutonic Order)
element: 3 knights (Crusaders)
element: 3 knights (Crusaders)
element: 3 cavalry (Knechte)
element: 2 light horse (Turkopolen)
element: 2 light horse (Turkopolen)
element: 4 crossbowmen (dienende Brüder)
element: 4 crossbowmen (Mercenaries)
element: 4 spearmen (dienende Brüder)
element: 3 auxiliaries
element: 3 auxiliaries

Historical Enemies

DBA Army No. 122 - Early Medieval Polish
DBA Army No. 129 - Early Russian
DBA Army No. 131a - Early Medieval Scandinavian (Danish)
DBA Army No. 131b - Later Medieval Scandinavian
DBA Army No. 148a - Prussian or Estonian
DBA Army No. 148b - Lithuanian or Wend
DBA Army No. 149 - Later Medieval Polish
DBA Army No. 154 - Mongols
DBA Army No. 157 - Post-Mongol Russians

The Teutonic Knights were an army of heavy cavalry which relied on the charge as its main battlefield tactic. If the flanks of the formation were secured by suitable terrain, this tactic could be quite successful.

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