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FLO4708627: Great master of the Teutonic order. The Teutonic knights were a medieval military order copy on the hospitals of Saint John. Their history is nomadic: their cradle was Acre in Palestine (1190-1309, then Marienburg in Prussia (1309-1525), where he developed his temporal supremacy and military domination, then their settlement in Mergentheim in Franconia, marked a period of declin, finally the order settled in Vienna (Austria) (1524-1805) or survived as a purely hospital. Hand-coloured copper engraving, in “Images historiques des costumes des principaux peuples de l'Antiquite et du Middle Ages” by Robert Von Spalart, published in 1800. / Bridgeman Images