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unusual facts about Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights



Danzig law

Danziger Willkür means "Danzig's choice by free will", as opposed to having been imposed from outside, as while part of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.

Land of Słupsk-Sławno

Grandmaster Siegfried von Feuchtwangen and Master Heinrich von Dirschau und Schwetz integrated the region of Western Pomerania into the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.

Reichsadler

The black eagle was later adopted when the Teutonic State was transformed into the Duchy of Prussia in 1525.

Von Plötzke

Heinrich von Plötzke (also Henry of Płock, d. 1320), Land Master of Teutonic Prussia (1307–1309), Prussian Grand Commander (1309-1312) and then till 1320 Marshall of the Order of the Teutonic Knights.

War of the Priests

The Bishopric of Warmia was in the 14th century part of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights, but enjoyed autonomy and was administrated as a prince-bishopric.

Wiewiórki, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Eichhorn has been founded by German settlers throughout the Ostsiedlung in the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights and was first mentioned in 1414, when the settlement was damaged by Polish troops in the Polish-Teutonic Hunger War.


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