Latin name: Ordo fratrum hospitalis Sanctae Mariae Domus Teutonicorum in Jerusalem
Latin short name: Ordo Teutonicus
English translation of the name: Order of the Brethren from the Hospital of the Virgin Maria (or hospital of Saint Maria) of the German House in Yerusalem
Englisch short name: Teutonic Order
other names for the order:
– Teutonic Knights – German Masters – Maria's Knights
The flag of the Teutonic Order has her origin in the in 1198 this order awarded white robe with a black cross. The robe was corroborated after resistance by the Order of the Temple howewer not until the year 1221 by the pope. The flag of the high-master stylizes the to the Teutonic Order awarded golden cross of Yerusalem, and showes in the middle the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation. Should the black cross of the Teutonic Order get depicted heraldically correct as "bar cross" (later named "German Cross", too) on a white blazon, then must the width of one crossbar amount 2/7 of the shield's width.
The coat of arms of the Teutonic Order has its origin (as with the flag) in the symbolism which was awarded to this order in 1198: the black cross on a white background. Should the black cross of the Teutonic Order get depicted heraldically correct as "bar cross" (later named "German Cross", too) on a white blazon, then must the width of one crossbar amount 2/7 of the shield's width.
1411 · first Thorn peace treaty, ceding of Samogitia to Lithuania
1440 · formation of the anti clerical Prussian alliance
1454–1466 · fights between Prussian alliance and the order
1457 · transfer of the order's seat to Koenigsberg (East Prussia)
1466 · second Thorn peace treaty, ceding of Kulmerland, Ermland, Pommerellen with Danzig, Elbing and Marienburg to Poland
1525 · secularization of the Prussian territory of the order and conversion in the Duchy of Prussia as a Polish fiefdom by the high-master Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach
1527 · transfer of the order's seat to Mergentheim (Württemberg)
1561 · conversion of Kurland in a Polish fiefdom, ceding of Livland to Poland, ceding of Estonia to Sweden
1809 · dissolution of the order in Germany outside of Austria by Napoléon, transfer of the order's seat to Vienna (Austria)
1929 · conversion into a pure clerical order
today's name:
• Fratres domus hospitalis Sanctae Mariae Teutonicorum in Jerusalem
• Brethren of the German House of Saint Maria in Yerusalem
