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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An order of German knights, priests, and lay brothers founded in the late 1100s that sought to expand Christendom through missions and conquest and built numerous towns which it then governed as nobility. After being defeated by Poles and Lithuanians at the battle of Grunwald (1410), its strength waned, and today it survives as a charitable clerical organization.
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The Teutonic Order is the great Order of Germany, of which I send you inclosed a short account.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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The Teutonic Order is the great Order of Germany, of which I send you inclosed a short account.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1748 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Teutonic Order flourished, until its grand master ruled over the entire Baltic coast from the Vistula to the gulf of Finland.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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When Sigismund tried to secure the help of Sweden, Vassili sought that of Denmark; and when his enemy set the Dnieper Cossacks at him, the grand duke induced the Teutonic Order to invade Poland.
The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen
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In 1225, another religious-brotherhood, the Teutonic Order, entered into Lithuania, and twelve years later the two orders united.
The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen
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It fell soon afterwards into the hands of the Poles, from whom it was taken in 1327 by the Teutonic Order, which held it till 1343, when the Poles recaptured it.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Teutonic Order which he defeated in 1410, at the battle of the (p. 082)
The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen
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Bishop Albert, who was assisted in his apostolic labours by the newly founded Order of the Brothers of the Sword which in 1237 was affiliated with the Teutonic Order.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Clares, the Teutonic Order, Dominicans (friar and nuns), Franciscans
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Olderd (d. 1377) was succeeded by his son Jagello, who made overtures to the Teutonic Order and concluded a secret treaty with it.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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